Messrs. Jacob van Braam and Robert Stobo, both Captains, shall be delivered to us as hostages until the arrival of our French and Canadians herein before mentioned.
"We on our part declare that we shall give an escort to send back in safety the two officers who promise us our French in two months and a half at the latest.
"Copied on one of the posts of our block-house the same day and year as before.
(Signed.) Messrs. James Mackaye, Gc.
Go. Washington,
Coulon Villier."[1]
The parts in italics were those misrepresented by Van Braam. The words pendant une année à compter de ce jour are not found in the articles printed by the French government, as though it repudiated Villier's intimation that the English should ever return. But within sixty-three hours of a year, an English army, eight times as great as the party now capitulating, marched across this battle-field. The nice courtesy shown by the young colonel, in allowing
- ↑ Toner's Journal of Colonel George Washington, 1754, pp. 157–158.
