As to his personality,
we have only a few meager details, with a portrait that suggests
plainly enough those qualities of boldness and craft which
characterized his tactics. Governor Dobbs appears to have had a
special love towards Hugh, whose family he had known in Ireland,
for an undercurrent of almost fatherly pride is to be found in
the old Governor's reports to the Assembly concerning Waddell's
exploits.
The terror raged for nearly three years. Cabins and fields were
burned, and women and children were slaughtered or dragged away
captives. Not only did immigration cease but many hardy settlers
fled from the country. At length, after horrors indescribable and
great toll of life, the Cherokees gave up the struggle. Their
towns were invaded and laid waste by imperial and colonial
troops, and they could do nothing but make peace. In 1761 they
signed a treaty with the English to hold "while rivers flow and
grasses grow and sun and moon endure."
In the previous year (1760) the imperial war had run its course
in America. New France lay prostrate, and the English were
supreme not only on the Ohio but on the St. Lawrence and the
Great Lakes. Louisbourg, Quebec, Montreal, Oswego, Niagara,
Duquesne, Detroit--all were in English hands.
Hugh Waddell and his rangers, besides serving with distinction in
the Indian war, had taken part in the capture of Fort Duquesne.
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