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An additional commission, of a different kind, was intrusted to George Croghan. Governor Morris by letter requested him to convene at Aughquick, in Pennsylvania, as many warriors as possible of the mixed tribes of the Ohio, distribute among them wampum belts sent for the purpose, and engage them to meet General Braddock when on the march, and render him all the assistance in their power.
George Croghan informed Washington that the sachems considered themselves treated with slight, in never being consulted in war matters. That he himself had repeatedly offered the services of the warriors under his command as scouts and outguards, but his offers had been rejected.
'Yes, their very mistakes would convey their hopes; and hopes have come to mean a great deal in Ireland. 'Our roads are then the same. I am on my way to Croghan Castle. 'Croghan is but a mile from my village of Cruhan, said he.
The children went outside the stockade and brought green boughs and August wild flowers, bearing the early autumn colors of gold and scarlet. With these they bedded the child in his plank coffin, unafraid of his waxen sleep. Before Croghan went to report to his General, he asked me where we should bury the little fellow. "In the fort, by the southern blockhouse," I answered.
It was at this point the Thin Woman of Inis Magrath knocked on the tree trunk and demanded that the children should be returned to her. When she had gone away the Leprecauns held a consultation, whereat it was decided that they could not afford to anger the Thin Woman and the Shee of Croghan Conghaile, so they shook hands with the children and bade them good-bye.
"I don't march at all. I stay here. I'm going to disobey orders." "If you're going to disobey orders, you have good reason for doing so." "I have. It was too late to retreat. I'm going to fight. I hear, Lazarre, you know how to handle Indians in the French way." "My dear Croghan, you insinuate the American way may be better." "It is, on the western border. It may not be on the northern."
Not all of them, however, are to be thus qualified. Some were of a better stamp; among whom were Christopher Gist, William Trent, and George Croghan.
There has never been such a remarkable naval victory on fresh water. Perry's famous dispatch to General Harrison, "We have met the enemy and they are ours," has become a proverb. Shortly after the repulse of Proctor, Fernando, who had taken a place in another company, was sent to Fort Stephenson, then commanded by Major George Croghan, a regular army officer only twenty-one years of age.
He presently went further. Rewards were offered by his officers for the scalps of Croghan and of another trader named Lowry. When this reached the ears of William Johnson, on the Mohawk, he wrote to Clinton in evident anxiety for his own scalp: "If the French go on so, there is no man can be safe in his own house; for I can at any time get an Indian to kill any man for a small matter.
He stepped out to look around the cabin at some horses fastened there, and saw and hailed us. I was not sorry to be allowed to enter, for I was tired to exhaustion, and sat down on the floor away from the fire. The man looked at me suspiciously, though he was ruddy and good natured. But he bent quite over before De Chaumont's daughter, and made a flourish with his hand in receiving young Croghan.
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