. The Niagara book : a complete souvenir of Niagara Falls : containing sketches, stories and essays--descriptive, humorous, historical and scientific. HISTORIC NIAGARA. I 55 better part of the eighteenth century, and one of theresults of which was that fatal tragedy on this frontierknown as * The Devils Hole Massacre. After the British success of 1759 and their subse-quent control of this territory, the Senecas, actuatedby their inherited hatred of the English and incitedprobably by the French, commenced a bloody supple-mental campaign in 1763. Knowing that the Enghshwere daily sending slightl
. The Niagara book : a complete souvenir of Niagara Falls : containing sketches, stories and essays--descriptive, humorous, historical and scientific. HISTORIC NIAGARA. I 55 better part of the eighteenth century, and one of theresults of which was that fatal tragedy on this frontierknown as * The Devils Hole Massacre. After the British success of 1759 and their subse-quent control of this territory, the Senecas, actuatedby their inherited hatred of the English and incitedprobably by the French, commenced a bloody supple-mental campaign in 1763. Knowing that the Enghshwere daily sending slightly guarded trains from FortNiagara through Lewiston, where they had an auxiliaryencampment, to Fort Schlosser, they planned an am-buscade and executed it with precision and fatal the narrow pass at the Devils Hole they ambushedthe supply train, destroying it and killing all but three ofthe escort and drivers. They then ambushed the reliev-ing force, which on hearing the firing had hastened fromLewiston, killing all but eight. It was a masterlyexample of Indian warfare executed with Indian cun-ning and Indian bloodthirstiness. CESSIONS
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