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Unit 3: Set 3. Armed Conflict - From Colonel Furnas’ Official Report

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From Colonel Furnas’ Official Report

“The Indians are now destitute of supplies, clothing, and almost everything else, they having abandoned all except their clothing and arms.”

- cited in Kingsbury, p. 296

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