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Dread of the scalping knife and tomahawk did more to save Canada for England, than the equivocal loyalty of her Canadian subjects, [and] the skill, valor and admirable tactics of her best officers and soldiers . . . Dread of the Indians multiplied their numbers and powers so fearfully to the American recollections that Indian barbarities were by far the most formidable of English means of hostility against the United States.

Charles Ingersoll, Historical Sketch of the Second War, 1845