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FORT DETROIT.
FIRST EMPLOYMENT OF AMERICAN INDIANS BY THE WHITES IN WArFARE.
Detroit, May 10, 1865. €. I. Walker, Biq:
Dear Sir: In the progress of the Repentigny suit, I met with the enclosed, which appears to me to have some literary value, as it may throw light on the question often raised as to whether it was the English or the French who first made use of savage troops in warfare between civilized nations on this continent. Your obedient servant,
• George C. Mahon.
In the District Court of the United States for the District of Michigan:
Louise Pauline de Repentigny and others,
vs.
The United States. Order to Louis Le Gardeur de Eepentigny to go to the war. Eolland Michel Barrien Cheve., Marquis de La Galipouiere, Chevalier of the Royal and Military order of St. Louis, Captain of the King's Ships,
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