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The Winning of the West, Volume Three

CHAPTER II
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19, 1786.] besides seizing the goods of a Spanish merchant in retaliation for wrongs committed on American merchants by the Spaniards.
Logan's Expedition.
This failure was in small part offset by a successful expedition led by Logan at the same time against the Shawnee towns.

[Footnote: State Department MSS., Virginia State Papers, Logan to Patrick Henry, December 17, 1786.] On October 5th, he attacked them with seven hundred and ninety men.

There was little or no resistance, most of the warriors having gone to oppose Clark.

Logan took ten scalps and thirty-two prisoners, burned two hundred cabins and quantities of corn, and returned in triumph after a fortnight's absence.

One deed of infamy sullied his success.


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