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The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I — Passage 22 (part 4)

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[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] These French delegates had orders to inform themselves of every thing carefully on the spot, and to learn if it were safe to confide again on the Savages, so that His Majesty's arms should not be retarded by an illusive hope of peace. But scarcely were the Ambassadors two or three days journey from Quebec, when news came of the surprisal by the Mohawks of some Frenchmen belonging to Fort St. Anne who had gone to the chase, and of the murder of Sieur de Traversy, Captain in the Carignan Regiment and Sieur de 48 FRENCH EXPEDITIONS AGAINST THE MOHAWKS.