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fort which was to be of picket work and block houses. The pickets were to be about fifteen feet high and sharpened at the top. The month of May was decided upon as the time for attacking the troops and kill every man if they could. The whole nation left their summer village in the fall, and in canoes with their families, descended the Mississippi river some 250 miles to their usual wintering grounds, at or near Wa-con-daw Prairie, and about fifty miles below Fort Madison,
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