Brightening the Chain with the Five Nations, Etc.
Document 1791General St. Clair discusses the preparations for the "coming contest" against the hostile western Indians including the actions being taken to strengthen the alliance with the Five Nations.
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Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document
Description
General St. Clair discusses the preparations for the "coming contest" against the hostile western Indians including the actions being taken to strengthen the alliance with the Five Nations.
Date
04/21/1791
Author
Recipient
Sent from
War Department
Collection
Document number
1791042100000
Notable persons
Arthur St. Clair
Henry Knox
Viscount Malartie
Colonel Campbell
Colonel Pickering
Jersey levies
Armstrong's and the Delaware Companies of Regulars
Major Ferguson
the Quartermaster
Notable locations
War Department
Counties of Washington and Ohio
Trenton
Reading
Carlisle
Fort Pitt
Notable items
doubts of [the Martie letter's] authenticity
every legal measure
goods lost by the Cornplanter