The Canadians and Indians have had a very considerable slice of the cake j the latter perpetrated there a multitude of horrors and assassinated more than 100 persons included in the capitulation, without our being able to prevent them or having the right to remonstrate with them. as mad dogs ;
This species of animal I look upon
when they are intoxicated they are uncontrolled.
THE EXAMINATION OF M0NS R BELESTRE A FRENCH ENSIGN TAKEN BEFORE THE HON BLE EDMUND ATKYN ESQ HIS MAJESTY S AGENT FOR, AND SUPERINTENDANT OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, IN THE SOUTHERN DEPARTMENT IN PRESENCE OF COL. WASHINGTON AND GEORGE CROGHAN ESRK DEP T TO SIR W M JOHNSON. ;
[Lond. Doc. XXXIV.]
He says he is a native of Canada and served Mons r Vaudreuil, that he came last from Fort Duquesne with a party of 40 Indians and 12 White men, 3 of whom were officers That only 100 of the Garrison at Fort Duquesne are quartered within the Fort the rest lodging in barracks without.
That the train of Artillery taken from General Braddock was sent down after his defeat
to Niagara, and that it was the same train the French had used at the taking of Oswego. 2 1 The Marquis de Vaudreuil caused to be deposited in the Churches of Montreal, Quebec and Three Rivers, with the usual ceremonies, the four Standards of Shirley's and Pepperel's regular troops and that of Schuyler's Regiment of Militia. Another Account.
2 The same day the French invested the place -with about 5000 men and 32 pieces of Cannon, from 12 to 18 pounders besides several large brass mortars and hoyets (among which artillery was part of Genl. Braddock's.)