...d assemble their corps; called out all the regulars and provincials in Charleston; asked aid of the governors of Georgia and North Carolina; invited Virginia to send reinfor cements and supplies to Fort Loudoun by the road from that province; sought the active alliance of the Chickasaws as ancient enemies to the French; of the Catawbas, the Tuscaroras, and even the Creeks, whose hostility he pretended to h...