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• If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men,…
• He was a man, he always performed his promises.
• May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
• Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.
• Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father?
• On no further occasion present a flag or medal to an Indian.
• American agents... are the only persons authorized to hold councils of a political nature.
• It was the wish of the Americans that their red brethren should remain peacefully round their own fires, and not embroil themselves…
• Few Indians only had breech cloths, most being wrapped in buffalo robes, otherwise quite naked.
• In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.
• I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force of arms.
• Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.

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