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horse, being an old and heavy man, and was bayoneted. The 

 Iroquois, losing 30 men and being discouraged by this and the 

 numbers of the French, at once returned home. 



General Johnson w^as knighted for his good conduct ; and 

 General Shirley wished him to call a council at Onondaga, and 

 also privately to engage some Iroquois to go against the French 

 and Indians on the Ohio. They could join a party already in 

 Pennsylvania and get the Susquehanna Indians to go too. John- 

 son did not approve of his having other Indian agents and wished 

 a fixed sum for himself and the secretary, Mr Wraxall. When 

 the Indians came to him, they had to be maintained, and a jour- 

 ney to Onondaga or Oswego was expensive. Shirley proved a 

 poor manager, but Massachusetts appropriated funds to secure 

 Iroquois aid, and the garrison at Oswego was reinforced by four 

 companies. Desertions were frequent there. 



The Six Nations had little to do with Braddock's aflairs, though 

 Scarrooyady and a few others w^ere with him at his defeat July 9. 

 They were displeased because he did not consult them. 



Most of the Ohio Indians were dissatisfied with the Albany 

 purchase of Susquehanna lands, and this led to hostilities with 

 the Delawares and Shawnees. The year before they had asked 

 that they might no longer be clad like women, but fight like men 

 for themselves. A change had come over them, and, being 

 encouraged by the French, they now fought without leave. The 

 French policy had hitherto been to weaken the Indians. This 

 having been sufficiently done, they were now to be protected, but 

 they were not always reliable. At the battle of Lake George the 

 Canadian Iroquois refused to attack the English camp, and helped 

 defeat the French by later inaction. M. de Vaudreuil had a con- 

 ference at Montreal with the Senecas Oct. i, 1755, who came to 

 bring Joncaire home. Some other Iroquois came later, and he 

 thought all wxre in the French interest except the Onondagas 

 and Mohawks. That year the French occupied Ticonderoga. 



In 1756 the Earl of Loudon became commander in chief, and 

 was empowered to furnish Johnson all he required for forts or 

 smiths among the Indians. Johnson's general plans were 



