Garrison Quotes
This is the 17th century French equivalent of base closings. Since there were no legislators from the districts of the closed castles he had to contend with the process was then easy. What is particularly interesting is that they did not just close them and put them to other use. They demolished them, so that subsequent administrations could not change their mind and re-garrison the castles.
Clark’s men had English Colonel Hamilton under siege by making him think there were many more Americans in Clarks army than the real 180 or so. He tried to get Hamilton to surrender by threatening if they had to take the fort they would treat Hamilton and the British as murderers—Hamilton had paid hostile Indians for American scalps. At that point a party of Clark’s men arrived with 4 or 5 Indian prisoners who had been captured raiding
civilian farms. After the Indians were executed, Hamilton agreed to surrender.
