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Stopped? When? 665 00:38:57,669 --> 00:39:00,296 - How could it be stopped? - Mr. Mason. 666 00:39:00,338 --> 00:39:03,091 Stopped rather thoroughly at dunkard's creek 667 00:39:03,633 --> 00:39:05,718 by a band of painted aborigines. 668 00:39:06,928 --> 00:39:08,304 It must have been a hunting party. 669 00:39:08,346 --> 00:39:10,974 Why should Indians stop a survey? Why? 670 00:39:11,808 --> 00:39:14,518 To hide the movement of war parties across the Ohio trail. 671 00:39:14,519 --> 00:39:15,728 War parties? 672 00:39:16,479 --> 00:39:18,690 The senecas, the ottawas, 673 00:39:18,982 --> 00:39:21,942 delawares, shawnees... You mean a general uprising? 674 00:39:21,943 --> 00:39:23,819 Have they powder and lead? War parties? 675 00:39:23,820 --> 00:39:25,320 Is that possible, sir William? 676 00:39:25,321 --> 00:39:29,324 So possible that we have forbidden the sale of firearms to the Indians. 677 00:39:29,325 --> 00:39:31,994 But, sir William, no one could bring those tribes together. 678 00:39:31,995 --> 00:39:34,205 I think there is someone, Mr. Garth. 679 00:39:34,539 --> 00:39:36,540 Who? Pontiac. 680 00:39:36,541 --> 00:39:38,500 Pontiac? The Ottawa chief? 681 00:39:38,501 --> 00:39:40,544 Pontiac's a friend of the white man. 682 00:39:40,545 --> 00:39:41,921 Which white man? 683 00:39:42,714 --> 00:39:45,049 Those who stay east of the alleghenies. 684 00:39:45,508 --> 00:39:47,009 Mr. Garth has just been in England 685 00:39:47,010 --> 00:39:51,138 trying to get a law passed prohibiting settlement west of the allegheny. 686 00:39:51,139 --> 00:39:53,600 He wants the whole fur empire to himself. 687 00:39:54,392 --> 00:39:56,518 Settlers will never be safe west of the mountains. 688 00:39:56,519 --> 00:39:58,145 Why, their homes are there. 689 00:39:58,146 --> 00:40:00,188 Their graves will be there, unless you call them back. 690 00:40:00,189 --> 00:40:01,190 Mr. Garth. 691 00:40:03,276 --> 00:40:06,654 Those people will never abandon a settlement like Pittsburgh. 692 00:40:07,030 --> 00:40:08,447 I'm sorry, colonel Washington. 693 00:40:08,448 --> 00:40:10,532 I know you selected that site yourself, 694 00:40:10,533 --> 00:40:13,869 but after all, a fort at the end of the earth, 695 00:40:13,870 --> 00:40:16,163 guarding nothing, on a couple of useless rivers. 696 00:40:16,164 --> 00:40:19,708 That triangle of land, sir, may be the most vital spot in this country. 697 00:40:19,709 --> 00:40:21,794 Oh, my dear colonel. 698 00:40:22,086 --> 00:40:24,631 I visited John Fraser's forge there once. 699 00:40:25,131 --> 00:40:27,634 And saw... coal and iron, that's what he saw. 700 00:40:28,343 --> 00:40:32,804 Pittsburgh's like a hen sitting on more coal than she can hatch in a thousand years. 701 00:40:32,805 --> 00:40:35,682 Cook the iron with that coal and what've you got? Steel. 702 00:40:35,683 --> 00:40:39,729 Why, that town'll sprout into a city of maybe four or five thousand folks. 703 00:40:41,564 --> 00:40:44,191 Don't laugh, gentlemen. John's a good gunsmith 704 00:40:44,192 --> 00:40:47,195 and we may need more guns than words to build a future. 705 00:40:48,696 --> 00:40:50,406 I've given my opinion. 706 00:40:50,448 --> 00:40:52,991 If you ignore it, I'll wash my hands clean of the whole matter. 707 00:40:52,992 --> 00:40:55,536 I hope they stay clean. Captain Holden. 708 00:40:56,162 --> 00:40:58,622 Mr. Garth knows the Indians. He ought to. 709 00:40:58,623 --> 00:41:01,625 He's married to guyasuta's daughter and is a blood brother of the senecas. 710 00:41:01,626 --> 00:41:03,419 Watch your words, man. 711 00:41:05,254 --> 00:41:07,839 Didn't you exchange blood with guyasuta? 712 00:41:07,840 --> 00:41:08,841 Yes. 713 00:41:09,759 --> 00:41:13,929 That's why the senecas trade with me rather than with Crawford or croghan. 714 00:41:13,930 --> 00:41:17,683 My trading posts would be the first to go up in the smoke of an Indian war. 715 00:41:17,684 --> 00:41:20,143 Then why did you send hundreds of muskets from England? 716 00:41:20,144 --> 00:41:22,437 Thousands of flints, tons of bar lead and powder to... 717 00:41:22,438 --> 00:41:24,273 Captain Holden, what are you suggesting? 718 00:41:26,234 --> 00:41:28,777 Captain Holden is somewhat bitter toward me 719 00:41:28,778 --> 00:41:31,279 because of a pretty bond slave aboard ship. 720 00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:34,032 Seems he's lost his famous luck with the ladies. 721 00:41:34,033 --> 00:41:37,619 You still haven't explained the shipments of arms, Mr. Garth. 722 00:41:37,620 --> 00:41:39,246 Explain them? I deny them. 723 00:41:39,247 --> 00:41:41,623 Any other information you'd like? Yes. 724 00:41:41,624 --> 00:41:44,627 In case of an Indian war, which side would you be on? 725 00:41:48,256 --> 00:41:50,632 I've killed men for less than that. 72