"When Westerners arraigned the British as the instigators of their frontier difficulties with the Indians, using precedent as their guide, they were not altogether on unhistorical ground. During the period when England still retained the Western posts, English officers gave material assistance and direct encouragement to the Indians in their wars against the United States."

https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/imh/article/view/7354/8421

See Also

Andrew C. McLaughlin, "The Western Posts and the British Debts," Annual. Report of the American Historical Association, 1894, pp. 413–44

https://books.google.com/books?id=zLUTAAAAYAAJ

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