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Domestic News
August 20, 1789
The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
What is this article about?
Report from Philadelphia claims British at Western Posts encourage Indian attacks on US frontiers, preventing peace and causing annual fur trade losses of nearly 100,000 pounds to the US, with Quebec exports over 150,000 pounds last year; calls for coercive recovery of posts.
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PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 8.
It is said, that the Indians are encouraged in their depredations on our frontiers, by the British stationed in the Western Posts :-If so, while they remain there, we may never expect peace with their copper-coloured allies.-Hence the necessity of the adoption of coercive measures for the recovery of these posts.
The loss to the United States, from the British holding the Western Posts -to say nothing of the disgrace of it --in the article of Fur alone, is nearly 100,000l. per ann. The exports of furs from Quebec, last year, amounted to above 150,000l. sterling.
It is said, that the Indians are encouraged in their depredations on our frontiers, by the British stationed in the Western Posts :-If so, while they remain there, we may never expect peace with their copper-coloured allies.-Hence the necessity of the adoption of coercive measures for the recovery of these posts.
The loss to the United States, from the British holding the Western Posts -to say nothing of the disgrace of it --in the article of Fur alone, is nearly 100,000l. per ann. The exports of furs from Quebec, last year, amounted to above 150,000l. sterling.
What sub-type of article is it?
Indian Affairs
Economic
Politics
What keywords are associated?
Indian Depredations
Western Posts
British Encouragement
Fur Trade Loss
Coercive Measures
Where did it happen?
Western Posts
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
Western Posts
Event Date
Aug. 8.
Outcome
annual us fur trade loss of nearly 100,000l.; quebec fur exports over 150,000l. sterling last year.
Event Details
Indians encouraged in frontier depredations by British at Western Posts, hindering peace; necessity for coercive measures to recover posts; significant economic loss in fur trade due to British hold.