Dumas et les Francais

Posted by Victoria on April 11, 2000 at 10:03:27:

July 24, 1756

"...I have suceeded in ruining the three adjacent provinces, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia, driving off the inhabitants, and totally destroying the settlements over a tract of country thirty leagues wide, reckoning from the line at Fort Cumberland. M de Contrecoeur had not been gone a week before I had six or seven war parties in the field at once, always accompanied by Frenchmen. Thus far we have lost only two officers and a few soldiers; but the Indian villages are full of prisoners of every age and sex."

Jean-Daniel Dumas
Fort Duquesne

Conrad Weiser: Friend of Colonist and Mohawk
P.A.W. Wallace
U. of PA Press, 1945
p. 395

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: July 24, 1756

: "...I have suceeded in ruining the three adjacent provinces, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia, driving off the inhabitants, and totally destroying the settlements over a tract of country thirty leagues wide, reckoning from the line at Fort Cumberland.  M de Contrecoeur had not been gone a week before I had six or seven war parties in the field at once, always accompanied by Frenchmen.  Thus far we have lost only two officers and a few soldiers; but the Indian villages are full of prisoners of every age and sex."

: Jean-Daniel Dumas
: Fort Duquesne

: Conrad Weiser: Friend of Colonist and Mohawk
: P.A.W. Wallace
: U. of PA Press, 1945
: p. 395


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