At the same time, other groups loyal to the French – Alibamu, Coushatta, Mobile, Biloxi, Pascagoula, and Tunica – chose to leave rather than accept British rule and crossed the Mississippi into Spanish Louisiana
In February a Chickasaw delegation arrived at Fort Assumption to make peace, and Bienville was forced to sign an agreement where the only Chickasaw concession was the resumption of French traffic on the Mississippi.
The Chickasaw had inflicted three successive defeats on the French, but it had cost them three-quarters of their population, and they could not afford any more of these “victories.
” Seeing some chance that Bienville’s departure would open a door to a permanent peace with the French, a Chickasaw delegation visited Vaudreuil in August, 1743 asking for peace.
The Chickasaw must stop their trade with the British and accept the authority of their French “father” with the added stipulation that a peace also needed the consent of the Choctaw.
So nothing came of the Chickasaw peace initiative, and the French continued to pay the Choctaw for Chickasaw scalps and enslave captured Chickasaw.
The outbreak of the King George’s War (1744-48) between Britain and France actually brought further relief when a British naval blockade cut the supply of French trade goods and weakened their control over native allies. Continua a leggere “Unfortunately, the Choctaw at the time were sharply divided into British and French factions and could not agree on anything”