"ARTICLE 1^{ st}. We permit the English Commander to withdraw with all the garrison, in order that he may return peaceably to his country, and to shield him from all insult at the hands of our French, and to restrain the savages who are with us as much as may be in our power.
"ART. 2^{ nd}. He shall be permitted to withdraw and to take with him whatever belongs to his troops, _except the artillery, which we reserve for ourselves_.
"ART. 3^{ rd}. We grant them the honors of war; they shall withdraw with beating drums, and with a small piece of cannon, wishing by this means to show that we consider them friends.
"ART. 4^{ th}. As soon as these articles shall be signed by both parties, they shall take down the English flag.
"ART. 5^{ th}. Tomorrow at daybreak a detachment of French shall lead forth the garrison and take possession of the aforesaid fort.
"ART. 6^{ th}. Since the English have scarcely any horses or oxen left, they shall be allowed to hide their property, in order that they may return to seek for it after they shall have recovered their horses; for this purpose they shall be permitted to leave such number of troops as guards as they may think proper, _under this condition, that they give their word of honor that they will work on no establishment either in the surrounding country or beyond the Highlands during one year beginning from this day_.
"ART. 7^{ th}. Since the English have in their power an officer and two cadets, and, in general, all the prisoners whom they took _when they murdered Lord Jumonville_, they now promise to send them, with an escort to Fort Duquesne, situated on Belle River, and to secure the safe performance of this treaty article, _as well as of the treaty_, Messrs. Jacob van Braam and Robert Stobo, both Captains, shall be delivered to us as hostages until the arrival of our French and Canadians herein before mentioned.
"We on our part declare that we shall give an escort to send back in safety the two officers who promise us our French in two months and a half at the latest.
"Copied on one of the posts of our block-house the same day and year as before.
(Signed.) MESSRS. JAMES MACKAYE, G^c. G^o. WASHINGTON, COULON VILLIER."[12]
The parts in italics were those misrepresented by Van Braam. The words _pendant une année à compter de ce jour_ are not found in the articles printed by the French government, as though it repudiated Villier's intimation that the English should ever return. But within sixty-three hours of a year, an English army, eight times as great as the party now capitulating, marched across this battle-field. The nice courtesy shown by the young colonel, in allowing Captain Mackaye's name to take precedence over his own, is significant, as Mackaye, a king's officer, had never considered himself amenable to Washington's orders, and his troops had steadily refused to bear the brunt of the campaign--working on the road or transporting guns and baggage. In the trenches, however, the Carolinians did their duty.