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Crafcdg anfcarriving at Detroit, to detach a body of troopsto Michilimackinac, and politely assured meof his services in recovering my property there.With these temptations before me I was easilyinduced to follow the General to Detroit.But I was not to go as a mere looker-on. Onthe contrary, I was invested with the honor of acommand in a corps, of the exploits, however,of which I can give no flattering account.Besides the sixteen Saulteurs, or Chippewa,of the Sault de Ste. Marie, with whom Ihad come to Fort Niagara, there were alreadyat that place eighty Matchedash Indians, thesame whose lodges we passed at the carryingplacesof Lake aux Claies. These ninety-sixmen being formed into what was called theIndian Battalion, were furnished with necessaries,and I was appointed to be their leaderme, whose best hope it had very lately been tolive through their forbearance.On the tenth of July the army marched forFort Schlausser, 80 a stockaded post above theGreat Falls, and I ordered my Indians to marchalso. Only ten of the whole number were readyat the call, but the rest promised to follow thenext morning. With my skeleton battalion,therefore, I proceeded to the fort, and therewaited the whole of the next day, impatiently80Fort Schlosser was built by the British in 1759 atthe upper end of the portage around Niagara Falls.Near here, on September 13, 1763, occurred the massacreof Devil's Hole. Editor.175