... their attack on that fort, several of them fell. We fatten our dogs with their carcasses, wrote Francis to Lyttleton; and display their scalps, neatly ornamented, on the tops of our bastions. Yet Fort Loudoun , on the Tennessee, was exposed to the savages, beyond the reach of succor. From Louisiana the Cherokees obtained military stores; and, extending their alliance, they exchanged with the restless Mus...