I found the nation much attached to the French, who have the prudence, by familiar politeness--which costs but little and often does a great deal--and conforming themselves to their ways and temper, to conciliate the inclinations of almost all the Indians they are acquainted with, while the pride of our officers often disgusts them. Nay, they did not scruple to own to me that it was the trade alone that induced them to make peace with us, and not any preference to the French, whom they loved a great deal better.... The English are now so nigh, and encroached daily so far upon them, that they not only felt the bad effects of it in their hunting grounds, which were spoiled, but had all the reason in the world to apprehend being swallowed up by so potent neighbors or driven from the country inhabited by their fathers, in which they were born and brought up, in fine, their native soil, for which all men have a particular tenderness and affection. He adds that only dire necessity had induced them to make peace with the English in 1761. [79] In accordance with the treaty stipulations Fort Prince George was built in 1756 adjoining the important Cherokee town of Keowee, on the headwaters of the Savannah, and Fort Loudon near the junction of Tellico river with the Little Tennessee, in the center of the Cherokee towns beyond the mountains. [80] By special arrangement with the influential chief, Ata-kullakulla (Ata'-gûl'`kalû'), [81] Fort Dobbs was also built in the same year about 20 miles west of the present Salisbury, North Carolina. [82]