Chapter X

Continued troubles with the Indians--English emissaries in
Kentucky--Mission of Antoine Gamelin--Preparations for war--Campaign of
General Harmar--Successive defeats of Colonel Hardin--Conduct of the
militia--Retreat of Harmar--Indian deputation to Lord Dorchester--Letter
of Sir John Johnson--Colonel Gordon--Letter of Brant to Colonel
McKee--Pacific views of Lord Dorchester--Renewed efforts of the United
States to bring the Indians to peace--Interposition of
Corn-planter--Mission of Corn-planter and Colonel Proctor--British
officers wish a mediation--Letter of Colonel Gordon--Colonel Pickering
holds an Indian Council at the Chemung--Red Jacket's course--Brant
interferes--Indian Councils at Buffalo--Influence of Colonel John Butler
and Brant--Mission of Colonel Proctor and Corn-planter
frustrated--Important position of Brant--Correspondence between the
Secretary of War and Governor Clinton--Colonel Pickering's Council with
the Indians at Painted Post--Mission of Hendrick, the Stock-bridge
chief--Renewal of hostilities--Campaign of General St. Clair--His
defeat--Thayendanegea among the Indian captains--The panic that
followed--Clamor against St. Clair--His resignation--Wayne appointed
his successor--Refusal of Colonel Willett to embark in an Indian war.

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