1763, June.] BOUQUET AND AMHERST. 37 



have now forwarded from hence every man that 

 was here; for the small remams of the 17th regi- 

 ment are already on their march up the Mohawk, 

 and I have sent such of the 42d and 77th as were not 

 able to march, to Albany, to relieve the company 

 of the 55th at present there, who are to march 

 immediately to Oswego." 



Two days after, the twenty-fifth of June, he 

 WTites again to Bouquet : '' All the troops from 

 hence that could be collected are sent you ; so that 

 should the whole race of Indians take arms against 

 us, I can do no more." ^ 



On the same day, Bouquet, who was on his way 

 to the frontier, wrote to Amherst, from Lancaster : 

 " I had this moment the honor of your Excellency's 

 letter of the twenty-third instant, with the most 

 welcome news of the preservation of the Detroit 

 from the infernal treachery of the vilest of brutes. 

 I regret sincerely the brave men they have so basely 

 massacred, but hope that we shall soon take an 

 adequate revenge on the barbarians. The rein- 

 forcement you have ordered this way, so consider- 

 able by the additional number of officers, will fully 

 enable me to crush the little opposition they may 

 dare to make along the road, and secure that part 

 of the country against all their future attempts, till 

 you think proper to order us to act in conjunction 

 with the rest of your forces to extirpate that vermin 

 from a country they have forfeited, and, with it, all 

 claim to the rights of humanity." 



1 On the 29th of July following, the fragments of five more regiments 

 arrived from Havana, numbering in all 982 men and officers fit for duty. 

 — Official Returns. 



