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118 1760 "By the instigation of the French of Louisiana the Cherokees inhumanly massacred the English traders & settlers resident amount them: whereupon a force of about twelve hundred men, from South Carolina, marched against the Indians, laid waste their towns, & destroyed their provisions. The Indians reassembled, laid siege to Fort Loudon, and obliged the garrison to capitulate." Leap Chr: 93.