planned American campaign against the Shawnee and Miami Indians to be led by Arthur St. Clair, the governor of the Northwest Territory.12 An important issue arose: Should the Americans tell the British about the operation at the risk of having the British pass along advance word to the Indians, their allies in harassing Americans along the frontier? Jefferson told Washington that the Americans should keep the Indian mission a secret.13 What neither the president nor the secretary of state knew was that Alexander Hamilton had already informed England through a British envoy named George
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