﻿HISTORICAL 
  OUTLINE. 
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  Although 
  driven 
  from 
  their 
  country, 
  and 
  destroyed 
  as 
  

   a 
  separate 
  nation, 
  the 
  Natchez 
  were 
  not 
  exterminated. 
  

   Those 
  who 
  escaped 
  from 
  Perrier 
  were 
  headed 
  by 
  the 
  

   Chief 
  of 
  the 
  Flour, 
  who 
  led 
  such 
  of 
  his 
  tribe 
  as 
  he 
  

   could 
  collect 
  against 
  St. 
  Deyns 
  at 
  the 
  Post 
  of 
  Natchi- 
  

   toches, 
  whom 
  he 
  attacked 
  with 
  a 
  force 
  of 
  about 
  two 
  

   hundred 
  warriors 
  ; 
  but 
  he 
  was 
  repulsed. 
  

  

  Pursuing 
  his 
  advantage, 
  St. 
  Denys, 
  at 
  the 
  head 
  of 
  his 
  

   small 
  force, 
  a 
  few 
  Spaniards 
  and 
  an 
  inconsiderable 
  num- 
  

   ber 
  of 
  Natchitoches 
  Indians, 
  sallied 
  out, 
  forced 
  the 
  en- 
  

   trenched 
  camp 
  of 
  the 
  Natchez, 
  killed 
  ninety-two 
  of 
  

   them, 
  including 
  all 
  of 
  their 
  chiefs, 
  and 
  put 
  the 
  rest 
  to 
  

   flight. 
  Thus 
  St. 
  Denys, 
  with 
  a 
  very 
  inconsiderable 
  

   force, 
  inflicted 
  upon 
  the 
  Natchez 
  the 
  most 
  fatal 
  blow 
  

   they 
  had 
  yet 
  received. 
  

  

  The 
  survivors 
  of 
  this 
  fated 
  race 
  were 
  now 
  scattered 
  

   among 
  the 
  Washitas 
  and 
  other 
  small 
  tribes 
  ; 
  but 
  most 
  

   of 
  them 
  sought 
  an 
  asylum 
  among 
  the 
  Chickasaws, 
  with 
  

   whom 
  they 
  incorporated 
  themselves. 
  They 
  continued 
  

   for 
  several 
  years, 
  in 
  conjunction 
  with 
  the 
  latter 
  tribe, 
  to 
  

   attack 
  and 
  harass 
  the 
  French 
  on 
  all 
  favorable 
  occasions, 
  

   and 
  still 
  numbered 
  two 
  hundred 
  warriors. 
  

  

  When 
  informed 
  of 
  these 
  disasters, 
  the 
  company 
  of 
  the 
  

   Indies 
  decided 
  that 
  it 
  was 
  impracticable 
  to 
  sustain 
  any 
  

   longer 
  so 
  profitless 
  and 
  expensive 
  a 
  colony, 
  and 
  the 
  di- 
  

   rectors 
  proposed 
  to 
  surrender 
  to 
  the 
  king 
  the 
  charter, 
  

   the 
  obligations 
  of 
  which 
  it 
  w^as 
  thought 
  would 
  involve 
  

   it 
  in 
  ruin. 
  After 
  much 
  negotiation, 
  the 
  retrocession 
  was 
  

   accepted, 
  the 
  French 
  government 
  resumed 
  the 
  adminis- 
  

   tration 
  of 
  the 
  colony, 
  and 
  on 
  the 
  15th 
  of 
  November, 
  

  

  these 
  Indian 
  families 
  at 
  Cape 
  Francois, 
  he 
  replied 
  that 
  he 
  was 
  not 
  

   aware 
  of 
  any 
  other 
  course 
  to 
  adopt 
  than 
  to 
  order 
  their 
  sale 
  or 
  to 
  send 
  

   them 
  back 
  to 
  Louisiana. 
  They 
  were 
  thereupon 
  ordered 
  to 
  be 
  sold. 
  — 
  

   Marhois. 
  

  

  