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Letter to Maurepas
(New Orleans, May 12, 1739)
Bienville, Jean Baptiste Le Moyne,
Sieur de in:
(Ministry of the Colonies, C13, V. 24, General
Corr. of Louisiana, pp. 51-59), Mississippi
Provincial Archives, vol. 1, pp.
389-395.
(page 394) . . . I have received by way of France letters of the twenty-sixth of last October from Mr. Beauharnais and Mr. Hocquart which inform me that a quarrel that has arisen between the Hurons of Detroit and the Ottawas was occupying all the neighboring nations that had taken part in it and would perhaps prevent the nations of that government from marching, but the news that I have just received from the Illinois tells us that this affair has been ended by the efforts of Mr. Beauharnais and that his nations by virtue of his orders are preparing to march to our assistance as well as those of the Mississippi and the Wabash. On receipt of this favorable news I have written to the officers who are in command in (f. 59) the posts (page 395) of Detroit and the Miamis to direct the march of the Indians of their districts in such a way that they will arrive on the territory of the enemy toward the beginning of November. I have given my orders accordingly to the officers who are in command in this government.
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