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Hon. C. I. Walker, Detroit, Mich.
Williamson, second in command, and the other from Lieutenant Bose, my aid-de-camp, contains all the particulars of this transaction (Crawford's defeat) which have yet come to my knowledge." Irvine to Washington, June 16, 1782.
I am very much "at sea" about one thing: both Laskiel and Heckewel-der speak of the presence of white troops; but where do they get their information? Laskiel's Preface is dated May 2, 1788. Heckewelder published his narrative in 1820. I should infer from what Laskiel says on p. X of his preface that his
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