 On 10 November 1757, the Oneida sachem Canaghquiesa warned the Palatines that a force of French and Indigenous combatants were on their way to attack, telling them that their women and children should head for the nearest fort, but Canaghquiesa noted that they "laughed at me and slapping their hands on their Buttucks [buttocks] said they did not value the Enemy".On 12 November 1757, a raiding party of about 200 Mississauga and Canadian Iroquois warriors together with 65 "Troupes de la Marine" and "Canadien" militiamen fell on the settlement of German Flatts at about 3