Throughout the Tuscarora War in North Carolina, Indian captives were retained or sold as slaves.[425] At the beginning of military operations, following the Indian massacre of 1711, the friendly Indians agreed to help the English against their enemy upon promise of a reward of six blankets for each man killed by them, and the usual price of slaves for each woman and child delivered as captives.[426] During the course of the war several hundred Indian allies were used by the English,[427] and these allies took advantage of the opportunity to obtain large number of Indian captives to sell to the slave traders of the time. In an attack on an Indian fort in 1711, thirty-nine women and children were captured and disposed of in the settlements as slaves.[428] The two chief expeditions during the war were those of Colonel Barnwell, who was sent by South Carolina in January, 1712, and of Colonel Moore in January and February, 1713. Colonel Barnwell’s expedition took two hundred Indian women and children prisoners.[429] The expedition of Colonel Moore virtually ended the war by capturing the fort in which the Tuscarora had taken refuge.[430] Nine hundred men, women and children were killed or taken prisoners.[431] In both expeditions the allied Indians secured as many as possible of the captured Indians whom they took along with them to sell as slaves in Charleston,[432] and they still further increased their supply of slaves by attacking the peaceful Indians along the route of their return to South Carolina.[433] During the course of the war more than seven hundred Indians were sold into slavery.[434]