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employed against our back Settlements this Winter if we do ]
not deprive them of that Asylum where they propose to resort
& ravage the Country at Intervals with impunity. — As soon as
I can make some necessary Preparations for my Journey which
shall not retard me more than a week I intend to set out for
Wills-Creek, in the Interim I will write to all the neighbouring
Colonies & sollicite their Assistance & if they should fortunately
be disposed to encrease considerably our American Forces in
the Spring I will with the greatest Alacrity & Diligence prose-
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cute His Majesty's Service & endeavour to gain that Fort also
which the Enemy have built on Buffaloe River. But notwith-
standing I should be succesful even in that Attempt, yet I
cannot think that His Majestys Dominions on the Continent
will be thereby effectually secured, or a free & open Trade
with the Indian Natives ensured to us while the French are
masters of so many Forts on the Lakes & have fortified so
many Places in the inland Country behind us; but as nothing
less than a considerable Body of European Troops can be
expected to oblige them to relinquish these I shall confine my
views & attend only the Business which I have at present in
hand hoping that by the time I shall have another Opportunity
of addressing myself home I shall be able to send a satisfactory
Account of my Proceedings & Conduct. In my other Letter I
took the Liberty to mention the Disputes that have arisen &
still subsist between the Independant Companies & the Troops
which the Colonies have raised on this Occasion, & I presumed
to hope that what Govr Dinwiddie had written relating thereto
might be thought to deserve some notice & that you would be
pleased by your Instructions to remove that Evil for the future,
in the mean time it shall be my constant Care & Study to
prevent any animosities among them & at all times to shew
that I have a due Sense of the favours you have been pleased
to confer on
Honble Sir
Your most devoted &c
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[Sharpe to the Earl of Halifax.]
Nov. 5th [1754]
My Lord
I do myself the honour to acknowledge to your Ldp my
Receipt of His Majestys most gracious Commission appointing
me Commander in Chief of the Forces that may be employed
against His Majestys Enemies in this Part of His Dominions.
As Governor Denwiddie has writ to acquaint your Ldp with
the present Posture of Affairs in this part of the Continent I
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