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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 8: (search)
am Harrod. An attack on Vincennes was the first object of Clark, but he learned that its garrison outnumbered his forces. In the north-west, Detroit was the central point of British authority. There Hamilton, the lieutenant-governor, summoned several nations of Indians to council; and from that post he sent abroad along the American frontier parties of savages, whose reckless cruelty won his applause as the best proofs of their attachment to British interests. Hamilton to Germain, 7 June, 1778. Sure of their aid, he schemed attempts against the rebel forts on the Ohio, relying on the red men of the prairies, and the white men of Vincennes. The reports sent to Germain made him believe that the inhabitants of that settlement, though a poor people who thought themselves cast off from his Majesty's protection, were firm in their allegiance to defend Fort Sackville against all enemies, and that hundreds in Pittsburgh remained at heart attached to the crown. Abbot (lieutenant-gov