Chronicles of Border Warfare, Or, A History of the Settlement by the Whites, of North-western Virginia, and of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that Section of the State : with Reflections, Anecdotes, &cStewart & Kidd, 1895 - 447 من الصفحات The focal point of Chronicles of Border Warfare is the American settlement throughout the northwestern portion of colonial Virginia (an area which today encompasses parts of Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, and Pennsylvania) from the French and Indian War to the Battle of Fallen Timbers, and the ensuing clashes with the indigenous population. -- From the publisher. |
من داخل الكتاب
النتائج 1-5 من 45
الصفحة xviii
... dians appear before Fort at the point , Decoy Lieut . Moore into an am- buscade , a larger army visits Fort , stratagem to draw out the gar- rison , Prudence and precaution of capt . M'Kee . Fort closely be- sieged , Siege raised ...
... dians appear before Fort at the point , Decoy Lieut . Moore into an am- buscade , a larger army visits Fort , stratagem to draw out the gar- rison , Prudence and precaution of capt . M'Kee . Fort closely be- sieged , Siege raised ...
الصفحة xix
... dians , Indians steal horses on West Fork , pursued and punished by col . Lowther - murder of the Wests on Hacker's creek , Remarkable recovery of J. Hacker's daughter - murder of the Johnsons on Ten , mile creek , At Macks , Artifice ...
... dians , Indians steal horses on West Fork , pursued and punished by col . Lowther - murder of the Wests on Hacker's creek , Remarkable recovery of J. Hacker's daughter - murder of the Johnsons on Ten , mile creek , At Macks , Artifice ...
الصفحة 43
... dians . The body found in the saltpetre cave of Kentucky , was wrapped in blankets made of linen and interwoven with feathers of the wild turkey , tastefully arranged . It was much smaller than persons of equal age at the present day ...
... dians . The body found in the saltpetre cave of Kentucky , was wrapped in blankets made of linen and interwoven with feathers of the wild turkey , tastefully arranged . It was much smaller than persons of equal age at the present day ...
الصفحة 58
... dians ( who claimed the country ) to prevent a further co- operation on their part with France.1 Previous to the issuing of this proclamation , some families had moved to Greenbrier and made two settle- ments - the one on Muddy creek ...
... dians ( who claimed the country ) to prevent a further co- operation on their part with France.1 Previous to the issuing of this proclamation , some families had moved to Greenbrier and made two settle- ments - the one on Muddy creek ...
الصفحة 66
... McDowell was killed in an engagement with the In- dians , in December , 1742 , and of course could not have served under either Andrew or Charles Lewis . - L . C. D. spies , from Fort du Quesne ; and as it 66 Withers's Chronicles.
... McDowell was killed in an engagement with the In- dians , in December , 1742 , and of course could not have served under either Andrew or Charles Lewis . - L . C. D. spies , from Fort du Quesne ; and as it 66 Withers's Chronicles.
طبعات أخرى - عرض جميع المقتطفات
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
alarm army arrived attack became blood body Boone Boonesborough Buchannon camp campaign Capt Captain captivity chief Chillicothe Clark Colonel colonies command commenced Cornstalk danger Daniel Boone detachment dians discovered distance Dunmore early effect endeavored enemy engaged erected escape exertions expedition farther fell fire force Fork Fort Laurens Fort Pitt forts French frontier garrison George Rogers Clark Girty Governor Greenbrier Hacker's creek Harrodsburg head horses hostilities hundred hunting inhabitants James Jesse Hughes John Kaskaskias Kenhawa Kentucky killed land Lewis Logan Lord Dunmore ment miles militia Mingo Monongahela Moravian mouth murder night North Western Virginia Ohio river party of Indians Pitt Point Pleasant present proceeded pursuit Renix retreat savages scalped settled settlements Shawnee shot Simon Girty soon station taken prisoner tion tomahawk tomahawked and scalped towns treaty troops Valley village warriors West Wheeling whites William wounded Wyandots
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 37 - Lo the poor Indian ! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind ; His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way...
الصفحة 37 - Yet simple Nature to his hope has given, Behind the cloud-topt hill, an humbler heaven; Some safer world in depth of woods embraced, Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
الصفحة xiv - In conformity to the act of Congress of the United States, entitled, " An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned ;
الصفحة xiv - IDE, of the said District, hath deposited in this office, the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit : " Inductive Grammar, designed for beginners. By an Instructer." In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States...
الصفحة 4 - Comfort, all along the sea coast to the southward two hundred miles, and all that space and circuit of land, lying from the sea coast of the precinct aforesaid, up into the land, throughout from sea to sea, west and northwest...
الصفحة 2 - The same principle continued to be recognised. The charter granted to Sir Humphrey Gilbert, in 1578, authorizes him to discover and take possession of such remote, heathen, and barbarous lands as were not actually possessed by any Christian prince or people.
الصفحة 129 - Myself, and thee — a peasant of the Alps, Thy humble virtues, hospitable home, And spirit patient, pious, proud and free; Thy self-respect, grafted on innocent thoughts; Thy days of health, and nights of sleep; thy toils, By danger dignified, yet guiltless; hopes Of cheerful old age and a quiet grave, With cross and garland over its green turf, And thy grandchildren's love for epitaph ; This do I see — and then I look within^ — It matters not — my soul was scorch'd already ! C.
الصفحة 25 - A separation into dialects may be the work of a few ages only, but for two dialects to recede from one another till they have lost all vestiges of their common origin, must require an immense course of time; perhaps not less than many people give to the age of the earth. A greater number of those radical changes of Ian* guage having taken place among the red men of America, proves them of greater antiquity than those of Asia.
الصفحة 208 - My son, the Great Spirit has seen fit that we should die together, and has sent you here to that end. It is his will and let us submit; it is all for the best...