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Portland Gazette
Portland, Cumberland County, Maine
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Letter from Kaskaskias dated April 9 reports a confederacy of western Indian nations attacking the Osages, with blood already spilled and large forces in motion. Mr. Van Bibber saw 400 Sacs cross the Missouri ten days prior to join the assault.
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A letter from a respectable gentleman residing at Kaskaskias, to his correspondent in Marietta (Ohio) dated April 9th says "the Osages are likely to be cut up root and branch, by a confederacy of almost all the Indian nations of the west; already blood has been spilt; and large bodies of men, are in motion to attack their country. Mr. Van Bibber, with whom you are acquainted, has just returned from the Missouri—he states that about ten days since, a body of about four hundred of the Sacs, crossed at a French village, at which place he was, about fifty miles from the mouth of the river, on their march to attack the Osages."
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Missouri
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Dated April 9th
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already blood has been spilt; osages likely to be cut up root and branch
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A confederacy of almost all the Indian nations of the west is attacking the Osages, with large bodies of men in motion; Mr. Van Bibber reports that about ten days prior to April 9th, four hundred Sacs crossed the Missouri at a French village fifty miles from its mouth on their march to attack the Osages.