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Chapter 8: the conquest of Kansas complete.

When the news of the defeat of Clay Pate reached Missouri, a force of twenty-one hundred mounted men, not one of them a citizen of Kansas, set out from the border village of Westport, under the lead of the Territorial delegate to Congress, with the triple purpose of rescuing their brother-highwaymen, seizing Old Brown, and completing the conquest of the disputed land.

A few days before this invasion they had sent on supplies of provisions to the town of Franklin, with cannon and ammunition for their coming forces; and there the Georgians began to concentrate, and committed robberies and other outrages on the persons and property of the Free State men. To defeat the design of the Missourians, we marched upon Franklin on the night of the 2d of June,--only a few days after the fight at Black Jack,--and, after two or three hours of firing, chiefly in the dark, drove the ruffians out and captured their provisions. We then retired to Hickory Point, and there concentrated to oppose the invading force; which, although doubling us in numbers, we

Thayer and Eldridge, 1860.

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