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words; for in April, Simcoe, the Lieutenant-Gov- 

 ernor, himself built a fort at the Miami Rapids, in 

 the very heart of the hostile tribes, and garrisoned 

 it with British regulars, infantry and artillery; 

 which, wrote one of the British officials to another, 

 had "put all the Indians here in great spirits" 7 to 

 resist the Americans. 



The same officials further reported that the Span- 

 iards also were exciting the Indians to war, and 

 were in communication with Simcoe, their messen- 

 gers coming to him at his post on the Miami. At 

 this time the Spanish Governor, Carondelet, was 

 alarmed over Clark's threatened invasion of Louisi- 

 ana on behalf of the French Republic. He wrote to 

 Simcoe asking for English help in the event of such 

 invasion. Simcoe, in return, wrote expressing his 

 good will, and inclosing a copy of Dorchester's 

 speech to the Northern Indians; which, Carondelet 

 reported to the Court of Spain, showed that the 

 English were following the same system adopted 

 by the. Spaniards in reference to the Indians, whom 

 they were employing with great success against 

 the Americans. 8 Moreover, the Spaniards, besides 

 communicating with the British, sent messages to 

 the Indians at the Miami, urging them to attack the 

 Americans, and promising help; 9 a promise which 

 they never fulfilled, save that in a covert way they 



1 Canadian Archives, Thomas Duggan to Joseph Chew, 

 Detroit, April 16, 1794. 



8 Draper MSS., Spanish Documents, letter of Carondelet, 

 July 9. 1794. 



9 Canadian Archives, letter of McKee, May 7, 1794. 



