uarrels with North Carolina and the Cherokees;
totters to its fall;
collapse.
French, complaints against Americans;
friendship with Indians.
French towns, chaos in.
French traders
excite Indians against Americans.
Frontier, attracts adventurous spirits;
social characteristics of frontiersmen.
Galvez, victories of;
Viceroy of Mexico.
Game, abundance of, in Kentucky.
Gardoqui, Don Diego, Spanish Minister in New York;
negotiations with Jay;
declines Jay's propositions;
intrigues with separatist leaders;
letter to Robertson;
negotiations with Morgan;
fruitlessness of his diplomacy;
inability to understand Americans;
intercourse with leaders in Congress;
correspondence with Sevier;
sends envoy to Franklin;
negotiations with the Franklin leaders.
Georgia, room for growth within.
Gibault, priest at Cahokia.
Gillespie, Captain, protects Indian prisoner;
his station captured by Indians.
Girty, Simon, British partisan;
ransoms captive.
Grayson, William, share in ordinance.
Hamtranck, expedition against Wabash Indians
Hardin, John, Col., skirmish with Indians;
wounded;
successful foray;
commands militia under Harmar;
is defeated.
Harmar, General, investigates alleged filibustering expedition
from Franklin;
takes possession of French towns;
quarrels with backwoodsmen;
stateliness of life;
foray against Shawnees;
marches against Miami towns;
poor quality of army;
destroys towns;
his detachments defeated;
his retreat.
Hart, Israel, family butchered by Indians.
Henry, Patrick, authorizes Kentuckians to attack Indians;
services of;
hostility to state of Franklin.
Holston, river, settlements on;
trail from these settlements to Cumberland;
rapid growth of settlements.
Hopewell, treaty of.
Houston, Samuel, proposes constitution of Frankland
Illinois, American settlers in the;
quarrels of Americans and creoles;
creoles petition Congress;
relations of both with Federal troops.
Indian fighters.
Indians, futile treaties with;
treachery of;
double dealing of;
wish war;
ravages of;
wrongs committed against;
horrors of warfare with;
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