THE OHIO VALLEY-GREAT LAKES ETHNOHISTORY
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Col. Bouquet to
Sir Jeffery Amherst
(Carlisle, July 13, 1763)
Bouquet, Henry in: [B. M., Add.
MSS. 21634, f. 321, C.] and in
Stevens et all. The Papers of
Col. Henry Bouquet,
Series 21634, 1940,
pp. 214-215.
p. 215.
. . .The Distance from F: Pitt to Presq'Isle is 142 Miles, thro' a narrow crooked Path, difficult Creeks, & several long Defiles
The Mingoes & Delawares who live in that Part of the Country may consist of 4 or 500 Men, exclusive of the Shawanese or western Indians who may accidentally be among them: And a Body of Troops must be respectable to force all Opposition they may have to encounter that Way. . .
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