1901-2.] Joseph Brant in the American Revolution. 



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You know I was very sparing of the Indian officers to be struck off. I 

 am writing now to be ; so if you do leave few, a little department, you 

 will save so much money. Government may be able again to give the 

 warriors proper clothing as they formerly had. You never saw such 

 confusion in the department, nothing equal to at present. 



" My complaint in the ear is still bad but I hope I shall be able to 

 get out this winter to the Mohawk river. I will try to be at Oswego in 

 thirty days' time or little more. I am as much forward to go to war as 

 I ever did but I am not so well contented as I used to be formerly, 

 because the warriors are in want. They are treated worse instead of 

 better. I shall tell you the particulars if you should want to know why 

 I write you so." 



Some months later Colonel Allan Maclean, of the Royal Highland 

 Emigrants, who had succeeded General Powell in the command of Fort 

 Niagara, observed that " Captain Joseph Brant, though a brave fellow 

 who has been a faithful, active subject to the King, has been the most 

 troublesome because he is better instructed and more intelligent than 

 any other Indian." 



The dissatisfaction of the Indians had by that time greatly increased 

 upon learning the proposed terms of peace by which they considered 

 that their interests were sacrificed. 



The war was at an end. Brant's reputation as a successful partisan 

 stood high both among friends and enemies. None of the leaders of 

 the Indians had been so actively and continuously engaged, and none 

 had been so uniformly distinguished by courage and ability. 



