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In his extensively detailed report, Céloron wrote, " All I can say is that the Natives of these localities are very badly disposed towards the French, and are entirely devoted to the English.

I don't know in what way they could be brought back.

" Even before his return to Montreal, reports on the situation in the Ohio Country were making their way to London and Paris, proposing that action be taken.

William Shirley, the expansionist governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, was particularly forceful, stating that British colonists would not be safe as long as the French were present.