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incorrigible banditti whose outrages cannot be prevented
 
incorrigible banditti whose outrages cannot be prevented
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while they are suffered to inhabit the county lying be=
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tween the Lakes and the Ohio. Their whole numbers prob=
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ably do not exceed two hundred fighting men.
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    The President of the United States upon
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mature consideration has therefore thought proper to
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give the governor of the western territory and command=
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ing officer conditional orders to extirpate the said
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banditti provided the same could be effected, without
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interfering with the general objects of peace with the
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regular tribes lying upon the Wabash and its vicinity.
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    It is proposed that the expedition should
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be performed under the immediate orders of general  Har=
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mar, with about one hundred continental troops and
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three hundred militia of the neighbouring counties of
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Kentucky who should be engaged for thirty days from
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the time of their arrival at the place of rendezvous--
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It is further proposed, that both the regular troops &
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the militia should be mounted on horseback, if the
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nature of the country should permit that mode of ope=
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ration.
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