The hiring of Foreign soldiers and employment of Indians in the Civil War 72-84
The policy of the British Ministry in employing foreign soldiers and Indians in the war with the Colonies deprecated by all classes in England and America and throughout Europe [72]
Violent opposition in Parliament to the hiring of foreign troops; exasperation in the Colonies (in a [note]) [73]
Unreliable and bad character of the Hessian mercenaries [74]
Remarks upon the bad policy of employing them, and their bad conduct, by the royal historian (in a [note]) [74]
The employment of Indians still more condemned and denounced than the hiring of foreign troops [74]
Employment of Indians by both the French and English during the war of 1755-63, between France and England [75]
At the close of the war the French authorities recommended the Indians to cultivate the friendship of England [75]
Both Congress and the English sought the alliance and co-operation of the Indians; misstatements of the Declaration of Independence on this subject (in a [note]); the advantages of the latter over the former in conciliating the Indians [75]
The employment of the Indians in every respect disadvantageous to England [76]
English Generals in America individually opposed to the employment of the Indians in the military campaigns [76]
Failure, if not defeat, of General Burgoyne's army by the bad conduct, and desertion, of his Indian allies [76]
But Washington and Congress, as well as the English Government, sanctioned the employment of the Indians in the war, and the first idea of thus employing them originated with the first promoters of revolution in Massachusetts [77]
Omissions of American writers to state that the aggressions and retaliations of the Congress soldiers and their coadjutors far exceeded in severity and destruction the aggressions and retaliations of the Indians on the white inhabitants [77]
Many letters and biographies of actors in the Revolution show that very much of what was written or reported during the Revolution against the English Loyalists and Indians was fictitious or exaggerated [78]
Proceedings of the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts (before the affairs of Concord and Lexington) to enlist and employ the Indians against the British [79]
General Washington, under date of July 27th, 1776, recommends the employment of Indians in the revolutionarycause [80]
The Americans have no ground of boasting over the English in regard to the employment of Indians and their acts during the war [81]
Efforts of General Burgoyne to restrain the Indians, who were an incumbrance to his army, and whose conduct alienated great numbers of Loyalists from the British cause [82]
The conduct and dread of the Indians roused great numbers to become recruits in General Gates' army, and thus rendered it far more numerous than the army of General Burgoyne (in a [note]) [83]
American invasion and depredations in the Indian country the latter part of 1776, as stated by Dr. Ramsay [84]
The invasion unprovoked, but professedly as a "precaution" to "prevent all future co-operation between the Indians and British in that quarter" bordering in Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Georgia [84]
Complete destruction of Indian settlements; their country a desolation [84]
The massacre of Wyoming; four versions of it by accredited American Historians, all differing from each other; the facts investigated and false statements corrected 85-98
The original inflated and imaginary accounts of the "Massacre of Wyoming" [85]
Mr. Hildreth's more intelligible and consistent account of the "Massacre" [90]
Remarks on the discrepancies in four essential particulars of these four accounts [94]
Supplementary remarks, founded on Colonel Stone's refutation of the original fabulous statements of the "Massacre," in his "Life of Joseph Brant, including the Border Wars of the American Revolution" [98]
American retaliation for the alleged "Massacre of Wyoming," as narrated by American historians 99-122
Destruction of Indian villages and settlements for several miles on both sides of the Susquehanna by the Americans [99]
Attack in retaliation "by Indians and Tories" on Cherry Valley, but more than revenged by Colonel G. Van Shaick on the settlements [99]
The destruction of Indian villages and other settlements to the extent of "several miles on both sides of the Susquehanna," more than an equivalent revenge for the
destruction of Wyoming (in a [note]) [100]
This only the beginning of vengeance upon the Indian settlements on the part of the "Continentals;" cruelties compared [100]
General Sullivan's expedition, and destruction of the towns, settlements, crops, and orchards of the Six Nations of Indians, as stated by Dr. Andrews [100]
The same expedition, as stated by Mr. Bancroft, Mr. Hildreth, Mr. Holmes, and Dr. Ramsay [102]
Further examples of "retaliation," so-called, inflicted upon the Indians and their settlements (in a [note]) [106]
The "Tories," driven among the Indians as their only refuge, treated as traitors; their conduct and duty [108]
Colonel Stone's account in detail of General Sullivan's expedition of extermination against the Six Nations of Indians [108]
Dr. Franklin's fictions on the massacre and scalping of the whites by Indians, in order to inflame the American mind against England; his fictions recorded as history [115]
Injustice done to the Indians in American accounts of them; their conduct compared with that of their white enemies [119]