Note 2 — Chapter XI · THE SECRET DISCLOSED.
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St. Vincent’s, now Vincennes, on the Wabash between Indiana and Illinois. Kaskaskia on the Mississippi at its junction with the Kaskaskia river on the western border of Illinois. These three posts, once French, had passed to England at the end of the French and Indian war, and were the rallying points for Indian raids, to be supplied with arms by British officers.