relations between the cherokee and the english began to decline in late 1758. during the forbes expedition, a group of cherokee warriors, who had been tasked with fighting those northern indians who were allied with the french, scalped and killed one or more white settlers, and then attempted to parade the scalps before the british, deceptively claiming they belonged to their enemies in order to receive a reward from the british. suspicious, the british soldiers disarmed attakullakulla and other warriors, none of whom had been involved, and briefly detained them. although governor fauquier of virginia managed to placate attakullakulla, some cherokees, still bitter over this treatment, raided virginia's frontier settlements while returning to the tennessee valley. in response, the settlers killed several cherokees, and the situation quickly spiraled out of control. in april 1759, moytoy of citico led a raid into virginia that killed several settlers. both demeré and attakullakulla demanded the surrender of some of the murderers, but were unsuccessful.