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Alexandria Daily Advertiser
Alexandria, Virginia
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Extract of a letter from Kaskaskias dated April 7 reports that western Indian nations are confederating to attack the Osages, with blood already spilled. Mr. Van Bibber observed 400 Sacs warriors crossing the Missouri River about ten days prior, en route to attack.
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"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 to me, 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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About Ten Days Before The 7th Of April
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already blood has been spilt
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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 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 about fifty miles from the mouth of the river, on their march to attack the Osages.