tter over the former in conciliating the Indians 75

The employment of the Indians in every respect disadvantageous
to England 76

English Generals in America individually opposed to the
employment of the Indians in the military campaigns 76

Failure, if not defeat, of General Burgoyne's army by the
bad conduct, and desertion, of his Indian allies 76

But Washington and Congress, as well as the English
Government, sanctioned the employment of the Indians in the
war, and the first idea of thus employing them originated with
the first promoters of revolution in Massachusetts 77

Omissions of American writers to state that the aggressions
and retaliations of the Congress soldiers and their coadjutors
far exceeded in severity and destruction the aggressions and
retaliations of the Indians on the white inhabitants 77

Many letters and biographies of actors in the Revolution show
that very much of what was written or reported during the
Revolution against the English Loyalists and Indians was
fictitious or exaggerated 78

Proceedings of the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts
(before the affairs of Concord and Lexington) to enlist and
employ the Indians against the British 79

General Washington, under date of July 27th, 1776, recommends
the employment of Indians in the revolutionary cause 80

The Americans have no ground of boasting over the English
in regard to the employment of Indians and their acts during
the war 81

Efforts of General Burgoyne to restrain the Indians, who were
an incumbrance to his army, and whose conduct alienated great
numbers of Loyalists from the British cause 82

The conduct and dread of the Indians roused great numbers
to become recruits in General Gates' army, and thus rendered
it far more numerous than the army of General Burgoyne (in a note) 83

American invasion and depredations in the Indian country the
latter part of 1776, as stated by Dr. Ramsay 84

The invasion unprovoked, but professedly as a "precaution"
to "prevent all future co-operation between the Indians and
British in that quarter"