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INDEX. 



i. 74, 173, 185, 195; English par- 

 simony towards them, 173. See 

 Appendix B. Englisli fur-trade 

 badly conducted, 174 ; profligacy 

 of the traders, 175 ; treatment of 

 the Indians by the soldiers in 

 garrison, ib. 



Eries, Indian tribe, destroyed by 

 the Iroquois, i. 25. 



Etherington, Captain George, com- 

 mands at Michiliimackinac, i. 

 334 ; is warned of danger, ib. ; 

 his disregard of the warning, ib. ; 

 his extreme carelessness, 339 ; 

 the massacre of his men, 341 ; 

 he is taken by the Indians, 275, 

 341 ; his letters quoted, 275, 364 ; 

 how he passed the night after the 

 massacre, 349, 350 ; his compli- 

 mentary letter to Colonel Bou- 

 quet on his promotion, ii. 242, 243. 



F. 



Eire, torture by, inflicted by In- 

 dians, i. 19, 53, 68, 269 note, 'ii. 20, 

 38 7wte. 



Fisher, Sergeant, murdered by the 

 Indians, i. 232; treatment of his 

 body, ib. 



Forbes, General John, drives the 

 French from Fort l)u Quesne, i. 

 122, 143, 145. 



Forest of the West, i. 147 ; routes 

 and modes of travel through it, 

 152-155; the scattered Indian 

 and French settlements, 148, 156 ; 

 the forest garrisons, 157 ; hunters 

 and trappers, 158. 



Fort Du Quesne, built by the 

 French, i. 105 ; Braddock's ap- 

 proach to it, 107 ; taken by Gen- 

 eral Forbes, 122, 145 ; the fort 

 destroyed and rebuilt, ii. 3 ; and 

 the name changed to Fort Pitt, i. 

 153. 



Fort Le Boeuf, taken by the Indi- 

 ans after a gallant defence, ii. 16, 

 17. 



Fort Ligonier, ii. 4 ; attacked by In- 

 dians, 10, 21,46, 47; the fort is 

 reinforced and holds out to the 

 end, 57. 



Fort Miami taken by the Indians, 

 i. 278. 



Fort PittjOriginallyFort Du Quesne, 



i. 153, 165; its commanding posi- 

 tion, ii. 2 ; built on the ruins of 

 the old fort, 3 ; two roads from it 

 to the English settlements, 4; 

 exposed to danger from the Indi- 

 ans, 5, 6, 12 ; strength of the 

 garrison, 11 ; attacked by Indi- 

 ans, 12; the Indians frightened 

 and withdraw, 14 ; the surrender 

 of the fort twice demanded, 13, 

 23 ; a vigorous attack by the In- 

 dians, 25, 26 ; the attack ineffect- 

 ual, 27 ; the fort reinforced and 

 secured from further danger, 69 ; 

 brief history of the siege by one 

 of the garrison, 70 note. 



Franklin, Benjamin, his account of 

 the murder of Indians in Lancas- 

 ter jail, 125 7wte ; his energetic 

 conduct in providing for the de- 

 fence of Philadelphia, 143 



Eraser, Lieutenant Alexander, ac- 

 companies Croghan in an embas- 

 sy to the Indians, ii. 276 ; visits 

 the country of the Illinois. 283 ; 

 his account of that country, 253 

 note; is ill-treated and his life in 

 danger, 284; Pontiac saves his 

 life, ib. ; descends the Mississippi 

 and arrives at New Orleans, 286. 



French colonies, their distinctive 

 characteristics, i. 46 et seq.; devo- 

 tion to the Romish church, 47, 

 50 ; engaged in the fur-trade, 49 ; 

 their lack of energy, 56 ; have 

 an extended military frontier, 49, 

 62 ; French plan to exclude the 

 Anglo-Saxon race from the val- 

 ley of the Mississippi, 62 ; French 

 expeditions against the Iroquois, 

 66-70 ; French influence among 

 the Indians widely extended, 71, 

 75 ; instances of French inhu- 

 manity, 75, 76 ; complaisance to- 

 wards the savages, 77 ; French 

 blood mingles largely xrith In- 

 dian, 78, 215; the French in the 

 Ohio valley, 87 ; obtain an influ- 

 ence over the Iroquois, 88, 89 ; 

 and over the Indians oti the Ohio, 

 101 ; occupation of Fort Du 

 Quesne, 107 ; driven from all 

 their possessions in North Ameri- 

 ca, 140 ; French settlements in 

 the Illinois valley, 156 ; French 

 policy towards the Indians 174 

 note. See Appendix B. 



