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The "western regiment" was 700 strong and commanded by the redoubtable Hi-o-ka-to, with Captain Montour and Young Cornplanter in command of its two wings. Sir William said that Hi-o-ka-to's command of western Iroquois was the finest body of men in the physical sense that he ever saw assembled. "What a pity it is," he wrote to General Amherst, "that these magnificent Indians could not have seen the right war- path for their interests earlier in the struggle 1 " An interesting episode of this cam...paign was that John Johnson, then eighteen years old, accompanied his father's 199 Sir William Johnson herst sent Colonel Haldimand with a command of a thousand men to clear the head of the St. Lawrence of any obstructions that might im- pede safe navigation, and on the 10th of August embarked from Oswego with his whole army. La Galette and Oswegatchie were reduced without serious resistance, although la Galette, which was defended by Fort Levi, a regular fortification, held out until the 25th of August, when the comman- dant, Pouchet, surrendered at discretion.
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