We had been their about 20 or 30 Minuts when we heard a stick crack...

"I stoped the tuch hole of my gun with tallow and then did ketch fire and we made up a fire and Dryed our selves.  I laid my gun Down on the back side of the fire to dry.  We concluded that when it would slack raining we would go back the same way as we came and we would yet kill a bear as the sighn seemed to be plenty.  As we stood up before our fire we would look Down at this mountain.  We all concluded it was the roughest looking place that we had ever seen - big lofty looking Rocks, big guts, Dismal precipasses, etc.  We was chitchattng, telling some mrry tails, Major Downey singing at times all though with a loe voice. We had been their about 20 or 30 Minuts when we heard a stick crack at our gap.  The word was, 'What is that?'  One of us answered, 'Chestnuts a falling.'  Another answered, 'I Don't like it.'"

Trabue, Daniel, and Chester R. Young. Westward into Kentucky: The Narrative of Daniel Trabue. Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 2004. Print.

The object of war should be their total extinction

"If against these Indians, the end proposed should be their extermination, or their removal beyond the lakes or Illinois river. The same world will scarcely do for them and us."

Following this TJ first wrote and then deleted:

“I think the most important object which can be proposed with such a force is the extermination of those hostile tribes of Indians who live between the Ohio and Illinois who have harrassed us with eternal hostilities, and whom experience has shewn to be incapable of reconciliation. The Shawanese, Mingos, Munsies and Wiandots can never be relied on as friends, and therefore the object of the war should be their total extinction, or their removal beyond the lakes or the Illinois river and peace" (Jefferson, January 1, 17[80]).

“From Thomas Jefferson to George Rogers Clark, 1 January 17[80],” Founders Online, National Archives, last modified December 6, 2016, http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-03-02-0289. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 3, 18 June 1779 – 30 September 1780, ed. Julian P. Boyd. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1951, pp. 258–259.]

To remove all reasonable Cause of Discontent

"And We do further declare it to be Our Royal Will and Pleasure, for the present as aforesaid, to reserve under Our Sovereignty, Protection, and Dominion, for the Use of the said Indians, all the Lands and Territories not included within the Limits of Our said Three New Governments, or within the Limits of the Territory granted to the Hudson's Bay Company, as also all the Lands and Territories lying to the Westward of the Sources of the Rivers which fall into the Sea from the West and North West, as aforesaid; and We do hereby strictly forbid, on Pain of Our Displeasure, all Our loving Subjects from making any Purchases or Settlements whatever, or taking Possession of any of the Lands above reserved, without Our especial Leave and Licence for that Purpose first obtained.
And We do further strictly enjoin and require all Persons whatever, who have either wilfully or inadvertently seated themselves upon any Lands within the Countries above described, or upon any other Lands, which, not having been ceded to, or purchased by Us, are still reserved to the said Indians as aforesaid, forthwith to remove themselves from such Settlements.
And whereas great Frauds and Abuses have been committed in the purchasing Lands of the Indians, to the great Prejudice of Our Interests, and to the great Dissatisfaction of the said Indians; in order therefore to prevent such Irregularities for the future, and to the End that the Indians may be convinced of Our Justice, and determined Resolution to remove all reasonable Cause of Discontent..."

King George III.  Proclamation of 1763, October 1763. MS. The Glider Lehrman Collection, The Glider Lehrman Institute of American History, New York.  22 Dec. 2016. Web. https://www.gilderlehrman.org/collections/244f978b-2cbf-4295-9b03-924022753327

No people could be in a more allarming situation

"to enumerate all the little actions that happened it is Impossible they ware continual and frequently sevear whin compared to our small forces the Forts ware often attacted (policy seem to have Required that the whole should be imbodied in one place but depending on Hunting for the greatest part of our provisions forbid it) no people could be in a more allarming situation detached at least two Hundred miles from the nearest settlement of the States surrounded by numerous Nations of Indians each on far superior in number to ourselves and under the Influance of the British government and pointedly directed to distroy us as appeared by many Instruments of writing left on the brest of people Kiled by them I was frequently affraid that the people would think of Making their peace with DeTroit and suffer themselves and their families to be carried of (Clark, 216)...

Clark, George R. Clark's Memoir, from English's Conquest of the Country. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms, 1966. Print.

The bullet passed through 9 folds of the blanket

"My brother was shot through the center of the body, and through the ligaments at the hips, so that he fell.  When he rose again, he said he saw an Indian loading his gun in full view so that he could have shot him, with the greatest ease, but that he was too weak and turned to run.  By this time the Indian had loaded and fired again.  The bullet passed through 9 folds of the blanket he had rolled up and strapped to his shoulders, and then stopped, and made flat as a 9d.  The force of the blow knocked him down again, but did not get through the blanket to the skin" (Draper MSS, James Wade Interview, 12cc11-41).

Draper, Lyman C. Draper Manuscript Collection: Series Cc; Kentucky Papers. Chicago: University of Chicago Library, Dept. of Photoreproduction, 1966. Archival material.

And put 2 bullits in each man's mouth

"Their was only 7 of us and a negro boy went throug the wilderness together in March 1778.  We all had good rifles and good Ammonition.  On Holston we took provision for our Jurney.  We understood a little provision would Do as we could kill plenty on the way.  We entered the wilderness in high spirits.  I was truly Delighted in seeing the mountains, Rivers, hills, etc., spruce, pine, Laurril, etc.  Every thing looked new to me.  Traveling along in Powls Valley where the Indians had broak up some people, see wast Desolate Cabbins I began to feel strange.  We went on our Jurney and came in sight of the noted place called Cumberland Gap.  We encamped all night (yet we was 3 or 4 Mile off) in a wast Cabin, and it was a Rainey blustry night.  When Morning came the weather was clear, and after we ate our breackfast a little after sunrise we persued on our Jurney.  When we got near to the Gap at a lorril branch where the indean war road comes in the Kentucky road (this indean Road Crosses the Gap at this place from the Cherekeys to the shoney town).  And at this branch where the indian road comes in we saw fresh Indian tracks.  James Trabue ordered us everyone to alight, prime our Guns afresh and pick our flints if they needed it, and put 2 bullits in each man's mouth.  And if we could come up with the indians we must fight our best.  The Indians' track was fresh and was Just gone the way we was going" (Trabue, 44).

Trabue, Daniel, and Chester R. Young. Westward into Kentucky: The Narrative of Daniel Trabue. Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 2004. Print.

Lost every Awl that we brought out

"[May] 14th.  When our Elk's skin was prepared we had lost every Awl that we brought out, and I made one with the Shank of an old Fishing hook, the other People made two of Horse Shoe Nailes, and with these we made our Shoes or Moccasins.  We wrote several of our Names with Coal under a Rock, & I wrote our names, the time of our comeing and leaving this place [Rockcastle River] on paper and stuck it to the Rock with Morter, and then set off" (Walker, 60).

Johnston, J S. First Explorations of Kentucky: Doctor Thomas Walker's Journal of an Exploration of Kentucky in 1750, Being the First Record of a White Man's Visit to the Interior of That Territory, Now First Published Entire, with Notes and Biographical Sketch ; Also Colonel Christopher Gist's Journal of a Tour Through Ohio and Kentucky in 1751, with Notes and Sketch. Louisville, Ky: J.P. Morton and Co, 1898. Print.