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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 8: (search)
to Germain, 7 June, 1778. Sure of their aid, he schemed attempts against the rebel forts on the Ohio, relying on the red men of the prairies, and the white men of Vincennes. The reports sent to Germain made him believe that the inhabitants of that settlement, though a poor people who thought themselves cast off from his Majesty's protection, were firm in their allegiance to defend Fort Sackville against all enemies, and that hundreds in Pittsburgh remained at heart attached to the crown. Abbot (lieutenant-governor of Vincennes) to Germain, 3 April, 1778. On the invasion of Canada in 1775, Carleton, to strengthen the posts of Detroit and Niagara, had Chap. VIII.} 1778. withdrawn the small British garrison from Kaskaskia, and the government was left in the hands of Rocheblave, a Frenchman, who had neither troops nor money. I wish, he wrote in February, 1778, the nation might come to know one of its best possessions, and consent to give it some encouragement; and he entreated