the disgraceful termination of the con

test of 1745, their relations with their Canada brethren ;

indeed, there was apparently no end to the reasons which they could not assign to conceal their indifference to the English cause and the divisions which existed among themselves.

From this boasted " bulwark " against the French, turn for t a moment to the conduct of the nations in the French alliance, led by the flower of the

Hudson river tribes.

At the call of

From Vaudreuil three and thirty nations rallied to his ranks. the rivers of Maine and Acadia, and the wildernesses of Lake Huron and Lake Superior, the

martial airs of France

were

shouted in the many tongues of the allied nations as they pressed

with swift destruction upon the border settlements and returned laden with the trophies of the fray.

Hendrik and his Mohawks, bound by personal ties to John son, with here and there a warrior from the other tribes, to the

number of fifty, left Albany with Johnson on the 8th of Au At the " carrying place " some two hundred warriors gust. joined him, thirty-five

giving to him, with the militia, a force of about

hundred men.

The

French,

marching

in

about

equal force to attack Oswego, were called back and sent, under

Baron Dieskau, to the defense of Crown point. Leaving the of his forces that at Dieskau largest portion Fort, pushed on

The French report says: "All the Mohawks were there, some Oneidas, some