Niagara, Fort,
     British besiege, 511
     reinforcements fail, 513-514
     fort surrenders, 515-516
     garrison saved from Indians, 516
     importance of its capture, 516

   Nicholson, General, conquers Acadia, 82

   Nipissing Indians, 50, 72, 122, 235
     burial customs of, 340

   Nova Scotia (See Acadia)

   Nuns at Quebec (See Ursulines)

   O

   Ochterlony, Captain, with Wolfe, rescued by French from scalping, 505

   Ogden, Captain, 520, 521

   Ohio Company, the, 58-59
     trading posts of, 115, 116
     its posts destroyed by French, 127

   Ohio Valley (See also Celoron de Bienville)
     French claims in, 48-58
     Indians of, 50, 107, 112, 119, 122
     English claims in, 58-64
     Virginia and Pennsylvania disputes over, 63
     importance as key to West, 64

   Ohio Valley battles, 106-127
     France establishes forts, 106-108
     illness among French, 107-108
     Virginia protests invasion, 108-111
     English colonies refuse help, 113-114, 129ff. 
     French detachment defeated, 116-118
     Indians join French, 122
     French victory at Great Meadows, 125-127
     French and British losses, 125 and n.

   Ojibwa Indians, 78, 107, 157, 335

   Oneida Indians, 276, 357, 436-437

   Onondaga Indians, 134-276

   Orme, Captain Robert, Aide-de-Camp to Braddock, 146, 153
     wounded in ambush, 164
     describes the ambush, 170-171

   Osage Indians, 77

   Osborn, Admiral, intercepts French fleet, 386

   Osgood, Captain, in Acadia, 196, 198

   Oswego, English fur trading post, 49
     its attraction to Indians, 68-69

   Oswego, Fort, battle for, 285-291
     sickness and hunger of troops, 279
     weakness of defenses, 280
     camp conditions, 286
     surrender to French, 289
     losses at, 289-290
     burned, 290
     Loudon blames Shirley for loss, 293

   Ottawa Indians, 50, 61, 78, 122, 157, 333, 335

   P

   Paris, treaty of, (1763), 619

   Parkman, William, comments on Abercromby, 411

   Parker, Colonel of Fort William Henry, 334

   Patton, John, English trader, 75

   Pean, Chevalier, 80, 106-107, 359, 367, 368
     his frauds, 372
     jailed and tried, 605

   Pean, Mme., 80, 372

   Penn, Thomas and Richard, 240-241

   Penn, William, 46

   Pennahouel, Ottawa Chief, 336, 337

   Peniseault, Antoine, accomplice of Bigot, 367-368
     jailed and tried for fraud, 605

   Peniseault, Mme., 372-373

   Pennsylvania in 1750’s, 44-45
     refuses funds for Ohio Valley defense, 130-131, 240ff. 
     Indian massacres in, 235-248, 295
     conflict between Governor and Assembly, 240-247