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English dismounted, and attacked the savages, and repulsed them; but having lost 
their brave commanding officer, Mr. Barker, and being themselves in some disorder, 
made their retreat. 
Upon this advantage, the Indians came farther on toward Goosecreek, at news of 
which, the whole parish of Goosecreek became deserted, except two fortified planta- 
tions: and the Reverend Dr. Le Jeau, the society's missionary there, fled to Charles- 
Town. 
These northern Indians, being a body of near 400 men, after attacking a small fort in 
vain, made proposals of peace, which the garrison unwarily hearkening to, admitted 
several of them into the fort, which they surprised and cut to pieces the garrison, 
consisting of 70 white people and 40 blacks; a very few escaped. After this they 
advanced farther, but on the 13th of June, Mr. Chicken, the Captain of the Goosecreek 
Company, met and attacked them, and after a long action, defeated them, and secured 
the province on that side from farther ravages. 1 
The northern hostiles probably consisted principally of the Indians 
of the small Siouan tribes, the Cheraw in particular having been long 
at odds with the settlers. 
In a letter to the Spanish king, already quoted, the monk Escudero 
says regarding this war: 
About seventeen or eighteen years ago the said Indians Llamapas [Yamassas], while 
being settled at their towns, living quietly and feared by all around these provinces, 
four English Captains with a body of soldiers descended upon the towns of the said 
Llamapas, and wanted to count the number of Indians that each town contained. 
Which upon being noticed by the said Indians they judged that the object of the 
English was to make slaves of them and one night they revolted against the English, 
and after having killed them all, captains and soldiers, they went to other English 
settlements and killed everyone of them, sparing only the women that could be of 
service to them and the negroes to sell to the Spaniards. Their fury and cruelty was 
such that they did not even spare the children. 2 
Escudero then passes over the specific events of the war and refers 
to the removal of the Yamasee to Florida and the reception given 
them. He is not accurate in all of his statements by any means, 
but it is interesting to note that a census of all of the Indian tribes, 
including among them the Yamasee, was actually made a few months 
before the outbreak. It is to be feared, from the general conduct 
of the settlers of our Southern States toward the Indians during that 
period, that their inference from this was only too well justified. 
This grand conspiracy of Indian tribes has never been given 
enough attention by our historians. It was a movement of the same 
order as the conspiracies of Opechancanough in Virginia, King 
Philip in New England, the Natchez in Louisiana, and, although 
on a smaller scale, of Pontiac and Tecumseh, individualism's tribute 
to cooperation in time of adversity, inspired by a broader insight 
into the movement of events for the time being, and failing because 
the unifying tendency is too late, the individualistic instinct too 
normal and too deep-seated. From what we learn of this particular 
uprising, from both French and English sources, we know that it 
i Carroll, op. cit., pp. 549-550. J Brooks, MSS. 
