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won trophies of honor in the general service, they were disregarded by the State, and would have been left to return without reward, or even supplies of food, but for the generosity of Washington and his officers. Washington's Writings, II. 10, 114, 147, 260, 261, 269, 270. The parties, which, in the following year, joined the expedition to the Ohio, were neglected, so that their hearts told them to return to their cherished highlands. Adair's History of the American Indians. In July, 1758, the backwoodsmen of Virginia, finding that their half-starved allies took what they needed on their way home, seized their arms, and, in three skirmishes, several of the beloved men of the Cherokees were slain and scalped. Hewat's History of South Carolina, II. 214. The wailing of the women for their deceased relatives, at the dawn of each day and at the gray of the evening, provoked the nation to retaliate. The blood of your beloved kinsmen calls for revenge, cried the Muskohgees