Treatise on the Indians of North America (1764) - 2
12019-06-01T00:20:23-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650a72001Treatise on the Indians of North America2019-06-01T00:20:23-07:00Cochrane, Gavin.The Newberry Library, Edward E. Ayer Digital Collection. VAULT Ayer MS 176.Contemporary copy of a treatise by Capt. Gavin Cochrane, tracing the history of British relations with the Indians of the Great Lakes region from 1760 to 1763, and offering suggestions as to how they might be improved. Also copies of cover letters addressed to the Earl of Halifax, then a minister in Grenville's cabinet, and to George III, for whom the essay was intended. Cochrane presents the circumstances that led to Pontiac's Conspiracy; recounts the means by which individual British garrisons were overthrown; and outlines steps the British could take to secure the Indians' loyalty.Manuscript, 17 pages.172Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650a
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