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Domestic News January 13, 1786

Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire

What is this article about?

The Carlisle Gazette reports that recent returnees from the western country learned the British were preparing a treaty with Indians at Fort Detroit, possibly to incite them against US inhabitants or to maintain unlawful control of the fort.

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The Carlisle Gazette, of the 14th inst. has the following article.--"By several persons lately returned from the western country we learn, that on their departure from that place, the British were preparing to hold a treaty with the Indians at Fort Detroit. Their reasons for attempting to hold treaties at a post which should long since have been given up to this country, must be either to irritate the savages against the peaceable inhabitants of the United States: or, if they still intend to retain their present unlawful possession, to assist them in that perfidious undertaking."

What sub-type of article is it?

Indian Affairs Politics

What keywords are associated?

British Treaty Fort Detroit Indians Western Country

Where did it happen?

Fort Detroit

Domestic News Details

Primary Location

Fort Detroit

Event Date

Lately

Event Details

By several persons lately returned from the western country we learn, that on their departure from that place, the British were preparing to hold a treaty with the Indians at Fort Detroit. Their reasons for attempting to hold treaties at a post which should long since have been given up to this country, must be either to irritate the savages against the peaceable inhabitants of the United States: or, if they still intend to retain their present unlawful possession, to assist them in that perfidious undertaking.

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