. Histoire indienne pour les jeunes . He Oneidas et Tuscaroras avaient refusé de suivre son exemple. Brant était maintenant âgé de trente-cinq ans, grand, libre et actif—un Indien idéalIndien—avec les avantages supplémentaires d'une bonne éducation anglaise et l'expiation dans la famille de Sir William Johnson. Il avait récemment été à Londres, où il a lionisé WHS, et alors qu'il avait offert les services des INDIENS PRENNENT PART CONTRE LES COLONIES AMÉRICAINES. 295 les six nations au roi pour aider à soumettre ses colonies rebelles. Les Brantsabilités étaient d'un ordre élevé. Il avait constamment augmenté dans l'es-teem de son peuple, l'onu

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. Indian history for young folks . he Oneidas and Tuscaroras had refused to followhis lead. Brant was now thirty-five years of age, tall, spare, and active—an idealIndian—with the added advantages of a good English education and atraining in the family of Sir William Johnson. He had recently been inLondon, where he WHS lionized, and while there had offered the services of THE INDIANS TAKE PART AGAINST THE AMERICAN COLONIES. 295 the Six Nations to the King to help subdue his rebellious colonies. Brantsabilities were of a high order. He had been constantly rising in the es-teem of his people, until he had attained the position of their ruler, andhis influence over them was almost unlimited. The Canadians and Loyalists were commanded by Sir John, the son ofthe distinguished Sir William Johnson, who had inherited his fathers v;istlanded estates, but not his abilities. He held a commission as colonel inthe British army, and one of his objects was to reclaim his confiscated es-tate and to resume his almost baronial sway.. BCRGOYXE MAKING A SPKECII TO THK INDIANS. It was a calm and beautiful morning, says Schoolcraft, when theenemy took up their line of march from Wood Creek. The interveningground was an open plain of wide extent, most elevated to-wards its central and southern edge. Gansevoorts men wereparaded on the ramparts, watching for the approach of the foe. Music wasBoon heard ; the scarlet color of the British uniforms next showed itself.Their standards, taken from their cases that morning, were waving in thebreeze. To many of Gansevoorts men who were newly enlisted the scenewas novel. A few were veterans of the Old French War, some were merelads. The Indians, spreading out on the flanks, gave the scene an air of 290 INDIAN HISTOKY FOR YOUNG FOLKS. .A> p^-$«* 3=9

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