In the midst of this uncertainty as to Hamilton and his intentions there hailed fresh from Vincennes Francis Vigo, a friendly Spaniard, with full news of the situation there to the effect that Hamilton had an army of six hundred men, consisting of British regulars, Canadian French and Indians; that his emissaries were diligently at work among the Indians, both north and south of the Ohio; that an attack would be made on Kaskaskia in the spring (the intervening country being considered now too difficult of passage), and that a further campaign against the settlements of Kentucky and the whole western frontier was contemplated.