Document1: We hear that some few of the English Traders on the Ohio lands escaped, but ’tis supposedthe greatest Part of the lands are taken by the French...all the colonists lost their goods, homes, lands, and skins, to the amount of near 20,000 British pounds….‘Tis also said, thatbesides the French that came down from the north, another Body of French army mennear 400, is coming up the Ohio; and that 600 French Indians... to join them; and manymore French are expected from Canada; the plan being to establish themselves, settletheir Indians in the Ohio River Valley…..the French Indians may send out their Parties to killand scalp the colonists,...and ruin the Frontier British American Counties. document 2: in the picture provided:
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Analyze Document 2 and explain how audience, or purpose, or bias, or point of view affects this document’s use as a reliable source of evidence.