A Poem on the Mineral Waters of Ballston and Saratoga: With Notes Illustrating the History of the Springs and Adjacent CountryAuthor, J. Comstock, printer, 1819 - 108 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 65 - Go, my brethren, I untie your bonds, and send you home again, though our nations be at war. The French governor has made me commit so black an action, that I shall never be easy after it, till the Five Nations shall have taken full revenge.
الصفحة 66 - French were slain in this invasion, and twenty six carried into captivity, and burnt alive. Many more were made prisoners in another attack in October, and the lower part of the island wholly destroyed. Only three of the Confederates were lost, in all this scene of misery and desolation.* Never before did Canada sustain such a heavy blow.
الصفحة 85 - The British artillery fell into our possession at every charge, but we could neither turn the pieces upon the enemy, nor bring them off; the wood prevented the last, and the want of a match the first, as the linstock was invariably carried off, and the rapidity of the transitions did not allow us time to provide one.
الصفحة 87 - In the square space of twelve or fifteen yards, lay eighteen grenadiers in the agony of death ; and three officers, propped up against stumps of trees, two of them mortally wounded, bleeding, and almost speechless.
الصفحة 60 - Indiana universally concur in the claim of all the lands [in 1750] not sold to the English, from the mouth of Sorel River, on the south side of Lakes Erie and Ontario, on both sides of the Ohio, till it falls into the Mississippi ; and on the north side of those lakes, that whole territory between the Outawais River, and the Lake Huron, and even beyond the straits between that and Lake Erie.
الصفحة 84 - Freeman's farm, an oblong field, stretching from the centre towards its right, the ground in front sloping gently down to the verge of this field, which was bordered, on the opposite side, by a close wood : the sanguinary scene lay in the cleared ground, between the eminence occupied by the enemy, and the wood just described ; the fire of our marksmen from this wood, was too deadly to be withstood, by the enemy, in line, and when they gave way and broke...
الصفحة 85 - ... the wood just described. The fire of our marksmen from this wood was too deadly to be withstood by the enemy in line, and, when they gave way and broke, our men, rushing from their covert, pursued them to the eminence, where, having their flanks protected, they rallied, and, charging in turn, drove us back into the wood, from whence a dreadful fire would again force them to fall back ; and in this manner did the battle fluctuate, like waves of a stormy sea, with alternate advantage, for four...
الصفحة 81 - M'Crea, a young lady, lovely to the sight, of virtuous character, and amiable disposition, engaged to an officer of your army, was, with other women and children, taken out of a house near fort Edward, carried into the woods, and there scalped and mangled in a most shocking manner.