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SPAIN IN THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY, 1765-1794
Carondelet to Delino June 29, 1792 37
Answered	New	Orleans, June 29,1792.
Mr Dear Sir: In reply to your letter of the 4th of the present month I must warn you that whenever the hunters and traders resolve to establish the fort projected by Captain Don Jose Valliere in a site which more fully answers the main object of its establishment than that called Les Gallais, I shall, without any objection, conform to their wishes. The object of the aforesaid fort must bo only to minimize the incursions of the Osage and to protect the hunters and traders from them. Therefore, whenever you assure me that this advantage may be accomplished in any other situation, I shall be willing to approve it without any objection.
I have already proposed this new establishment to the government and, as soon as I have its approval and requisite information from you, I shall take the necessary steps. Meanwhile, it is advisable to press upon the Osage at all points. I have sent orders to the Ilinueses to furnish arms and ammunition in order to arm all nations possible against the Osage. If there can be assembled a sufficient body of men, including hunters, militiamen, and savages, to surround the place of the Osage and finish with them once and for all, it shall be carried out with all possible haste.
It will be necessary for you to arm the Arkansas, the Caddo, and as many as you can, adding to them the hunters and traders to the end of destroying those who might escape from the expeditions noted above. With this idea in mind, I have given thirty guns to the Arkansas with three pounds of gunpowder for each one, and they have left well-disposed to join with the Caddo upon their arrival and fall upon the Osage.
Endeavor to make more difficult the introduction and passage of the Americans through that district.
In the meantime I beg Our Lord to preserve your life many years. Your most attentive servant kisses your hand.
El Baron de Carondelet (Rubric)
Senor Don Ygnacio Delino
/Favre to, [Carondelet]
/ j&tne 29, 1792 38 At the Choctaws, 29th of June, 1792.
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My Lord : Allow me to take the liberty of having the honor of writing you this letter to send you the enclosed copies which were
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PROBLEMS OF FRONTIER DEFENSE, 1792-1794
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'brought to the Choctaw nation by two Americans the 25th of this .month. They went back the same day. These messages were translated by a trader for that nation named Jean Pichline. This is one of several similar activities of this man, who does nothing but give bad advice to the savages. That is why I hope, my Lord, that you will be so kind as to give me your orders about this matter.
They brought two large medals, and two complete suits. They have given one to Franchimastabe, and the. other to a respected chief of this nation called Tloupouye Nantla, but all this was of no use. They have been unable to take either of them along with them.
There is nothing else of enough importance to inform you. My Lord, begging you to excuse me for the liberty which I dare to take, I have the honor of being, with respect and submission, my Lord,
Your most humble and most obedient servant,
Sim
Treaty Between Spain and the Creek Nation July 6, 1792 39
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Don Francisco Baron de Carondelet, colonel of the royal forces, governor and intendant general of the provinces of Louisiana and West Florida, and Alexander McGillivray, general and principal chief of the Creek nation, desire to confirm by all possible means the firm principles of peace, friendship, and reciprocal union, which happily exist between the Spanish nation and the Creek Indians and their allies, and to remove once and for all any obstacle that might embarrass the definite and complete compliance with the treaty celebrated by both nations at Pensacola in 1784. They take likewise into consideration that the treaty made with the United States in 1790 has brought about innumerable disturbances and discontent among the different chiefs of the nation, the greater part of which are decided to disapprove and reject the aforementioned treaty with the United States. Until such time as his Majesty shall consider it advisable to make a resolution relative to the extension of the royal guarantee and protection to all the lands of the Creek nation or Talapoosa, we have agreed upon the following articles which ought to be considered as an explanation of our first treaty of 1784, which in all else must remain in full force.
Article 1.
His Catholic Majesty, desiring to preserve a perpetual peace and good harmony between the United States and all his allied Indian
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