Note 185 — Chapter IV · CHICAGO IN THE REVOLUTION
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On this see Thwaites, op. cit. , 28-31. I have drawn freely on this reference and on Winsor, Westward Movement, for the facts concerning Clark's expedition.
[186] Thwaites, op. cit., 33. That he kept his promise is sufficiently attested by Hamilton, who describes him as a "wretch," "who absolved the French inhabitants from their allegiance to the King of Great Britain," and "an active agent for the rebels & whose vicious & immoral conduct was sufficient to do infinite mischief in a country where ignorance & bigotry give full scope to the depravity of a licentious ecclesiastic."—Michigan Pioneer Collections, XIX, 487.