Border Wars of the West: Comprising the Frontier Wars of Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Tennessee and Wisconsin, and Embracing Individual Adventures Among the Indians, and Exploits of Boone, Kenton ... and Other Border Heroes of the West |
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alarm arms army arrived attack attempt battle Black Hawk block-house boat body Boone Boonesborough British brother cabin camp canoe Captain captured chief Clarke command commenced Creek crossed danger dead defeat Delawares detachment discovered encamped enemy escaped expedition fell fire flank force Fort Duquesne Fort Henry Fort Jefferson Fort Pitt Fort Strother Fort Washington French frontier garrison gave Girty Governor Harrodsburg horses hostile hundred immediately inhabitants instantly Kaskaskia Kenton Kentuckians Kentucky Keokuk killed LENOX TILDEN FOUNDATIONS Logan massacre miles militia morning murder night number of Indians officers Ohio party of Indians peace Pennsylvania Prairie du Chien prisoners pursued pursuit reached rear received retreat returned rifle river savages scalped sent settlements settlers Shawanees shot side Simon Girty soldiers soon Tecumseh tomahawk took town treaty tribes troops village Virginia volunteers warriors Wayne Whetzel whites wounded YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
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Page 375 - It is earnestly desired that you show humanity to such British subjects and other persons as fall in your hands. If the white inhabitants at that post and the neighborhood, will give undoubted evidence of their attachment to this State, (for it is certain they live within its limits...
Page 460 - Scott to gain and turn the right flank of the savages, with the whole of the mounted volunteers, by a circuitous route; at the same time I ordered the front line to advance and charge with trailed arms, and rouse the Indians from their coverts at the point of the bayonet, and when up, to deliver a close and well-directed fire on their backs, followed by a brisk charge, so as not to give them time to load again.
Page 460 - All these orders were obeyed with spirit and promptitude ; but such was the impetuosity of the charge by the first line of infantry that the Indians and Canadian militia and volunteers were driven from all their coverts...
Page 141 - The supplicating tears of the women and moving petitions of the men melt me into such deadly sorrow, that I solemnly declare, if I know my own mind, I could offer myself a willing sacrifice to the butchering enemy, provided that would contribute to the people's ease.
Page 287 - Indians returned to the battle ground, in order to strip the dead and take care of the boats. BENHAM, although in danger of famishing, permitted them to pass without making known his condition, very correctly supposing that his crippled legs would only induce them to tomahawk him upon the spot, in order to avoid the trouble of carrying him to their town. He lay close, therefore, until the evening of the second day, when perceiving a raccoon descending a tree, near him, he shot it, hoping to devise...
Page 372 - GEORGE ROGERS CLARK : You are to proceed, with all convenient speed, to raise seven companies of soldiers, to consist of fifty men each, officered in the usual manner, and armed most properly for the enterprise; and with this force attack the British post at Kaskaskia.
Page 324 - Several hundred Indians were between him and the ford, to which the great mass of the fugitives were bending their flight, and to which the attention of the savages was principally directed. Being intimately acquainted with the ground, he, together with a few friends, dashed into the ravine which the Indians had occupied, but which most of them had now left to join in the pursuit After sustaining one or two heavy fires, and baffling one or two small parties, who pursued him for a short distance,...
Page 350 - Licking, and afforded evidences of great hurry and precipitation on the part of the fugitives. Unfortunately, a hound had been permitted to accompany the whites, and as the trail became fresh and the scent warm, she followed it with eagerness, baying loudly and giving the alarm to the Indians. The consequences of this imprudence were soon displayed. The enemy finding the pursuit keen, and perceiving that the strength of the prisoner began to fail, instantly sunk their tomahawks in her head and left...
Page 212 - He now made a sudden and desperate effort to free himself from the arms of the giant, and succeeded. Instantly snatching up a rifle (for the Indian could not venture to shoot for fear of hurting his companion) he shot the lesser Indian through the body. But scarcely had he done so when Big Foot arose, and placing one hand upon his collar and the other upon his hip, pitched him ten feet into the air, as he himself would have pitched a child. Adam fell upon, his back at the edge of the water, but before...
Page 169 - Captain Cresap, What did you kill my people on Yellow Creek for? The white people killed my kin at Conestoga,* a great while ago; and I thought nothing of that. But you killed my kin again, on Yellow Creek, and took my cousin prisoner. Then I thought I must kill too; and I have been three times to war since: but the Indians are not angry; only myself.