The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War After the Conquest of Canada, Հատոր 1Little, Brown and Company, 1898 - 154 էջ |
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... Parties 69 CHAPTER IV . 1700-1755 . COLLISION OF THE RIVAL COLONIES . - - ― ― The Puritan and the Canadian . - Fort Frederic . Acadia .. The French on the Ohio . - Mission of Washington . - Trent driven from the Ohio . - Death of ...
... Parties 69 CHAPTER IV . 1700-1755 . COLLISION OF THE RIVAL COLONIES . - - ― ― The Puritan and the Canadian . - Fort Frederic . Acadia .. The French on the Ohio . - Mission of Washington . - Trent driven from the Ohio . - Death of ...
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... parties roamed over half America , and their name was a terror from the Atlantic to the Mississippi ; but , when we ask the numerical strength of the dreaded confederacy , when we discover that , in the days of their greatest triumphs ...
... parties roamed over half America , and their name was a terror from the Atlantic to the Mississippi ; but , when we ask the numerical strength of the dreaded confederacy , when we discover that , in the days of their greatest triumphs ...
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... parties were not ill matched in point of numbers , yet the united counsels and ferocious energies of the confederacy swept all before them . In the year 1649 , in the depth of winter , their warriors invaded the country of the Wyandots ...
... parties were not ill matched in point of numbers , yet the united counsels and ferocious energies of the confederacy swept all before them . In the year 1649 , in the depth of winter , their warriors invaded the country of the Wyandots ...
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... parties were harassing the French of Canada with reiterated inroads , and yelling the war - whoop under the walls of Quebec . They were the worst of conquerors . Inordinate pride , the lust of blood and dominion , were the mainsprings ...
... parties were harassing the French of Canada with reiterated inroads , and yelling the war - whoop under the walls of Quebec . They were the worst of conquerors . Inordinate pride , the lust of blood and dominion , were the mainsprings ...
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... parties pierce the farthest wilds of the Rocky Mountains ; and the prairie traveller may sometimes meet the Delaware warrior returning from a successful foray , a gaudy handkerchief bound about his brows , his snake locks fluttering in ...
... parties pierce the farthest wilds of the Rocky Mountains ; and the prairie traveller may sometimes meet the Delaware warrior returning from a successful foray , a gaudy handkerchief bound about his brows , his snake locks fluttering in ...
Common terms and phrases
Algonquin Amherst arms army assailants attack began blockhouse boats Braddock British camp Canada Canadians canoes Captain chief close colony command confederacy council coureurs de bois Delawares Detroit encamp enemy England English Erie Father fight fire Five Nations force forest Fort Duquesne Fort Pitt forts France French fur-trade garrison Gladwyn ground guns hand hatchet heard Henry Hist hostile hundred Hurons Indians Iroquois Jesuit Johnson killed Lake Erie Lake George land Lenape Letter lodge ment Michilimackinac Mississippi morning neighboring Niagara night officers Ohio Ojibwas Ottawas palisades party passed peace Penn Pontiac posts Pottawattamies prisoners province Quebec race remained river Rogers sachems savage scalp sent settlements Shawanoes shore side siege siege of Detroit Sir William Johnson SITY smoke soldiers soon spirit squaws stood tion told trader tribes troops UNIV vessel village wampum warriors wild wilderness woods Wyandots yells
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Էջ 119 - In short, the dastardly behavior of those they call regulars exposed all others, that were inclined to do their duty, to almost certain death ; and, at last, in despite of all the efforts of the officers to the contrary, they ran, as sheep pursued by dogs, and it was impossible to rally them.
Էջ 356 - This shelter obtained, if shelter I could hope to find it, I was naturally anxious to know what might still be passing without. Through an aperture, which afforded me a view of the area of the fort, I beheld, in shapes the foulest and most terrible, the ferocious triumphs of barbarian conquerors. The dead were scalped and mangled ; the dying were writhing and shrieking, under the unsatiated knife and tomahawk; and, from the bodies of some, ripped open, their butchers were drinking the blood, scooped...
Էջ 111 - Braddock is a very Iroquois in disposition. He had a sister, who having gamed away all her little fortune at Bath, hanged herself with a truly English deliberation, leaving only a note upon the table with those lines " To die is landing on some silent shore,
Էջ 356 - Langlade, begging that he would put me into some place of safety, until the heat of the affair should be over; an act of charity by which he might perhaps preserve me from the general massacre; but, while I uttered my petition, M. Langlade, who had looked for a moment at me, turned again to the window, shrugging his shoulders, and intimating that he could do nothing for me: — "Que voudriez-vous que j'en ferais?
Էջ 342 - Englishman, it is you that have made war with this our father. You are his enemy; and how, then, could you have the boldness to venture among us, his children? You know that his enemies are ours. " ' Englishman, we are informed that our father, the king of France, is old and infirm ; and that, being fatigued with making war upon your nation, he is fallen asleep.
Էջ 118 - The Virginia troops showed a good deal of bravery, and were nearly all killed ; for I believe out of three companies that were there, scarcely thirty men are left alive.
Էջ 91 - Reasons we charge you to remove instantly; we don't give you the Liberty to think about it. You are Women. Take the Advice of a wise Man, and remove immediately.
Էջ 360 - Langlade that they had not found my hapless self among the dead, and that they supposed me to be somewhere concealed. M. Langlade appeared, from what followed, to be by this time acquainted with the place of my retreat, of which, no doubt, he had been informed by his wife. The poor woman, as soon as the Indians mentioned me, declared to her husband, in the French tongue, that he should no longer keep me in his house, but deliver me up to my pursuers ; giving as a reason for this measure, that, should...
Էջ 145 - So much the better," he said; "I am happy that I shall not live to see the surrender of Quebec." Officers from the garrison came to his bedside to ask his orders and instructions. "I will give no more orders, " replied the defeated soldier; "I have much business that must be attended to, of greater moment than your ruined garrison and this wretched country. My time is very short; therefore, pray leave me.
Էջ 342 - Englishman, although you have conquered the French, you have not yet conquered us. We are not your slaves. These lakes, these woods and mountains, are left to us by our ancestors ; they are our inheritance, and we will part with them to none.