Joncaire

The Iroquois remained formidable, so both the French and the English, via their agents Joncaire Chabert and Sir William Johnson, continued negotiations with them.

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Joncaire Chabert, a French-Iroquois métis, went along to win over the Indians.

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Mostly, he did not want to give Joncaire a chance to get his Indian companions drunk.

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But according to Joncaire, the Indians “might assuredly expect them in the spring, with a far greater number.”

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Joncaire, he knew, was “a person of very great influence among the Indians,” who had lately used “all possible means” to lure them into the French sphere of influence.

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Joncaire said much the same to his superiors about the devious Anglais.14

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It rained all the next day and Washington and his party brooded in their tent until Joncaire sent for him, complaining that he had not let his French hosts know that Tanaghrisson was with him.

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Joncaire refused to accept the belt, asking the sachem to take it to the commandant at Fort Le Boeuf.

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Joncaire declared that all the Ohio Indians had gone over to the English.

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Word had arrived from Venango, where French Indian agent Joncaire Chabert had called in Mingos, Delawares, and other nations and advised them that the French had intended to go on to the Forks that fall, but the weather prevented it.

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