4 sight of the village he saw the English colors floating over the tent of chief and also over the cabin of an English trader. He learned that several depredations instigated by the French had already been committed, and that the property of English traders was being seized and sent to the French forts on the lakes. These were some of the beginnings of ‘ the war between the two nations for supremacy in America. Bouquet's Expedition.—During the progress of the French and Indian War. the Delaware. Shawanese, and other tribes of the Masking' um country had been exceedingly troublesome and did not cease hostilities at the close of the war. In 1764. Col. Boquet with an army of one thousand live hundred regulars and militia was sent from Fort Pitt to chastise the aborigines in this part of the state. On the 13th of October he reached the river a • little below the Indian town of Tuscarawa and went into camp. While here two men that had been despatched with letters were captured by the savages and taken to their town about sixteen miles distant, where they were held as prisoners until the Indians learning of the arrival of Boquet and his
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