. Indian history for young folks . plan, but that wassufficient for its defeat. The Indianswere afraid of cannon, and did not liketo attack forts, so they urged the French leader to march against Johnson instead, and he was reluctantly per-suaded to change his plan. Johnson saw that something must be done without delay. One thou-sand men were immediately sent, under Colonel Ephraim Williams, torelieve Fort Edward. Two hundred warriors of the Six Nationswent also, led by the gray-haired sachem Hendrick. Beforeleaving Albany, Williams made a will, by which he left the bequest tofound the free-sc
. Indian history for young folks . plan, but that wassufficient for its defeat. The Indianswere afraid of cannon, and did not liketo attack forts, so they urged the French leader to march against Johnson instead, and he was reluctantly per-suaded to change his plan. Johnson saw that something must be done without delay. One thou-sand men were immediately sent, under Colonel Ephraim Williams, torelieve Fort Edward. Two hundred warriors of the Six Nationswent also, led by the gray-haired sachem Hendrick. Beforeleaving Albany, Williams made a will, by which he left the bequest tofound the free-school that is now Williams College. It was at first proposed to send a smaller force, but Ilendricks opinionbeing asked, he shrewdly replied, If they are to fight, they are too few,if they are to be killed, they are too many. To the plan of separatingthem into three parties his reply was equally convincing. Taking threesticks, he said, u Put them together and you cannot break them; takethem one by one and you can break them HENDRICK. Sept. S, 1755. 218 INDIAN HISTORY FOR YOUNG FOLKS. Ilendrick was then sixty-five years old ; his hair was white, and he wa>.regarded by his warriors with the deepest veneration. Before inarching,he mounted a gnu-carriage and harangued his warriors in a strain of pow-erful and effective eloquence. One who heard it said, that although hedid not understand a word of the language, such was the animation of thespeaker, the fire of his eye, the force of his gestures, the strength of hisexpressions, the apparent propriety of the inflections of his voice, andthe naturalness of his whole manner, that he himself was more deeplyaffected by this speech than with any other he had ever heard. Advised by his scouts of the march of this detachment, Dieskau placedhis men in ambush at Rocky Brook, four miles from Johnsons was a swamp on one side of the road, and a low ridge on the other;in addition to these advantages, tall trees and thick unde
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