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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... seemed worthy of confidence . I am indebted to the liberality of Hon . Lewis Cass for a curious collection of papers relating to the siege of Detroit by the Indians . Other im- portant contributions have been obtained from the state ...
... seemed worthy of confidence . I am indebted to the liberality of Hon . Lewis Cass for a curious collection of papers relating to the siege of Detroit by the Indians . Other im- portant contributions have been obtained from the state ...
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... seemed copied after the same model.1 Like the Five Nations , they were divided into tribes , and cross - divided into totemic clans ; and , as with them , the office of sachem descended in the female line . The same crude materials of a ...
... seemed copied after the same model.1 Like the Five Nations , they were divided into tribes , and cross - divided into totemic clans ; and , as with them , the office of sachem descended in the female line . The same crude materials of a ...
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... seemed the chief aims of life . The lords of the soil were petty nobles , for the most part soldiers , or the sons of soldiers , proud and ostentatious , thrift- less and poor ; and the people were their vassals . Over every cluster of ...
... seemed the chief aims of life . The lords of the soil were petty nobles , for the most part soldiers , or the sons of soldiers , proud and ostentatious , thrift- less and poor ; and the people were their vassals . Over every cluster of ...
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... seemed to involve the ruin of the enterprise , since it was vain to proceed farther without the expected supplies . In this disastrous crisis , La Salle embraced a resolution characteristic of his intrepid temper . Leaving his 1 ...
... seemed to involve the ruin of the enterprise , since it was vain to proceed farther without the expected supplies . In this disastrous crisis , La Salle embraced a resolution characteristic of his intrepid temper . Leaving his 1 ...
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... seemed tired of the conflict with so stubborn an adversary . All went prosperously with the voyagers . They passed the lakes in safety , crossed the rough portage to the waters of the Illinois , followed its winding channel , and ...
... seemed tired of the conflict with so stubborn an adversary . All went prosperously with the voyagers . They passed the lakes in safety , crossed the rough portage to the waters of the Illinois , followed its winding channel , and ...
Common terms and phrases
Algonquin Amherst arms army assailants attack began blockhouse boats Braddock British camp Canada Canadians canoes Captain chief colony command council coureurs de bois Delawares detachment Detroit encamp enemy England English Father fight fire 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 Journal killed Lake Erie Lake George land Letter lodge Michilimackinac Mississippi Montreal morning Nations neighboring Niagara night officers Ohio Ojibwas Ottawas palisades party passed peace Penn Pontiac posts Pottawattamies prisoners province Quebec race rangers remained river Rogers savage scalp sent settlements Shawanoes shore side siege siege of Detroit Sir Jeffrey Amherst Sir William Johnson SITY soldiers soon spirit squaws stood tion told traders 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.