258 REMARKABLE MEMORIAL HORN. 
the King of France.” Saloné, a young warrior of Estatoc, laid hold 
of it and cried out: ‘I am for war! The spirits of our brothers 
who have been slain still call upon us to revenge their death. He 
is no better than a woman who refuses to follow me.” It was 
immediately after this event that Col. Grant assumed command of 
the British forces in Carolina. Brownell says: 
“Jn the following spring (i.e. in 1761), Col. James Grant, who 
had succeeded to the command of the Highlanders employed in 
British service in America, commenced active operations against the 
belligerent nation—the Cherokees. What with the aid of the 
Provincials and friendly Indians, he was at the head of about 
twenty-six hundred men. The Chickasaws and Catawbas lent some 
assistance to the English ; but the Creeks are said to have alternately 
inclined to the French or English, according as they received or 
hoped for favours and presents. 
“The army reached Fort Prince George on the 27th of May 
(1761), and there old Attakullakulla, a Cherokee chief who had 
been long the fast friend of the English, made his appearance, depre- 
cating the proposed vengeance of the whites upon his people. He 
was told that the English still felt the strongest regard for him 
individually, but that the ill-will and misconduct of the majority of 
the nation were too palpable and gross to be suffered to go longer 
unpunished. Colonel Grant marched from the fort in the month of 
June. The Cherokees made a desperate but unavailing stand; they 
were routed and dispersed, leaving their towns and villages of the 
interior to be destroyed by the invaders. Etchoe was burnt on the 
day following the battle. . . . Upon the return of the army to 
Fort Prince George, after this campaign, Attakullakulla again visited 
the camp, bringing with him a number of other Cherokee chiefs. 
Broken down by their disastrous losses, and disgusted with the 
deceitful promises of the French, they gladly acceded to such terms 
as Co]. Grant thought fit to impose, and a treaty of peace was 
formally concluded.” 
Drake, in referring to the same campaign against the Indians of 
Carolina, says : 
“Such was the condition of the country that a second application 
was made to General Amherst for aid, and he promptly afforded it. 
Colonel James Grant arrived there early in 1761, and not long after 
took the field with a force of English and Indians, amounting to 
