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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  leave 
  to 
  open 
  a 
  road 
  to 
  Oswego. 
  The 
  Oneidas 
  and 
  Tuscaroras 
  

   would 
  help 
  make 
  it 
  from 
  German 
  Flats 
  to 
  Canaseraga, 
  and 
  the 
  

   Onondagas 
  thence 
  to 
  Oswego. 
  He 
  might 
  build 
  a 
  fort 
  at 
  Oswego 
  

   Falls, 
  to 
  be 
  destroyed 
  when 
  the 
  war 
  was 
  over. 
  He 
  gave 
  the 
  

   Indians 
  kettles 
  to 
  feast 
  on 
  their 
  enemies' 
  flesh, 
  which 
  is 
  noted 
  

   as 
  figurative 
  ; 
  eating 
  meat 
  out 
  of 
  the 
  kettles 
  at 
  a 
  war 
  feast 
  being 
  

   called 
  eating 
  a 
  Frenchman's 
  flesh, 
  as 
  drinking 
  is 
  then 
  termed 
  

   drinking 
  an 
  enemy's 
  blood. 
  

  

  He 
  placed 
  a 
  medal 
  on 
  the 
  Onondaga 
  speaker's 
  neck. 
  A 
  treaty 
  

   was 
  made 
  with 
  the 
  Delawares 
  and 
  Shawnees, 
  and 
  the 
  former 
  were 
  

   fixed 
  at 
  Tioga 
  by 
  the 
  Six 
  Nations, 
  where 
  some 
  Iroquois 
  then 
  

   lived. 
  The 
  Iroquois 
  feared 
  the 
  French 
  because 
  of 
  their 
  many 
  

   Indian 
  allies. 
  On 
  reaching 
  home 
  he 
  had 
  another 
  conference 
  with 
  

   the 
  Delawares 
  and 
  Shawnees. 
  With 
  the 
  consent 
  of 
  the 
  Six 
  

   Nations, 
  he 
  declared 
  the 
  former 
  no 
  longer 
  women 
  but 
  men, 
  but 
  

   they 
  were 
  not 
  formally 
  made 
  so 
  for 
  many 
  years 
  later. 
  He 
  sent 
  

   out 
  many 
  parties, 
  and 
  the 
  Indians 
  were 
  pleased 
  with 
  their 
  new 
  

   forts. 
  

  

  Various 
  collisions 
  preceded 
  the 
  fall 
  of 
  Oswego, 
  the 
  most 
  impor- 
  

   tant 
  being 
  Bradstreet's 
  successful 
  fight 
  at 
  Oswego 
  Falls, 
  of 
  

   which 
  the 
  French 
  and 
  English 
  gave 
  very 
  different 
  accounts. 
  

   While 
  returning 
  from 
  Oswego 
  with 
  300 
  boatmen 
  and 
  their 
  boats, 
  

   he 
  was 
  attacked 
  from 
  the 
  east 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  river 
  at 
  Battle 
  island, 
  

   July 
  3, 
  1756. 
  Landing 
  on 
  the 
  small 
  island 
  there 
  with 
  six 
  men, 
  

   he 
  held 
  it 
  till 
  reinforced, 
  repulsing 
  three 
  assaults. 
  Thence 
  the 
  

   contest 
  followed 
  the 
  west 
  bank 
  to 
  the 
  falls, 
  lasting 
  three 
  hours. 
  

  

  Oswego 
  was 
  invested 
  by 
  Montcalm 
  Aug. 
  11, 
  and 
  surrendered 
  

   Aug. 
  14, 
  Col. 
  Mercer 
  having 
  been 
  killed. 
  With 
  its 
  siege 
  the 
  

   Six 
  Nations 
  had 
  nothing 
  to 
  do, 
  but 
  the 
  French 
  had 
  many 
  sav- 
  

   ages 
  with 
  them, 
  whose 
  mere 
  yells 
  did 
  as 
  much 
  toward 
  the 
  sur- 
  

   render 
  as 
  the 
  guns 
  of 
  the 
  French. 
  Their 
  Indians, 
  they 
  said, 
  

   "perpetrated 
  a 
  multitude 
  of 
  horrors, 
  and 
  assassinated 
  more 
  than 
  

   100 
  persons 
  included 
  in 
  the 
  capitulation, 
  without 
  our 
  being 
  able 
  

   to 
  prevent 
  them, 
  or 
  having 
  the 
  right 
  to 
  remonstrate." 
  

  

  The 
  dilatory 
  — 
  to 
  use 
  no 
  stronger 
  word 
  — 
  General 
  Webb 
  got 
  

   only 
  to 
  the 
  Oneida 
  portage. 
  Learning 
  there 
  the 
  loss 
  of 
  Oswego, 
  

  

  