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... attacks Harrodstown - Singular escape of Ray --- Plans approved by Governor and Council - Spies in Illinois -- Arrives at the Falls of Ohio - Eclipse of the Sun - Passes the Falls - Reaches Kaskaskia - Surprises the town - Takes Cahokia ...
... attacks Harrodstown - Singular escape of Ray --- Plans approved by Governor and Council - Spies in Illinois -- Arrives at the Falls of Ohio - Eclipse of the Sun - Passes the Falls - Reaches Kaskaskia - Surprises the town - Takes Cahokia ...
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... attack . In this daring reconnoiter , the General was near falling a victim to his gallantry . He had rode within eighty yards of the fort , accompanied by his aid , Lieutenant William H. Harrison , and within point blank shot of its ...
... attack . In this daring reconnoiter , the General was near falling a victim to his gallantry . He had rode within eighty yards of the fort , accompanied by his aid , Lieutenant William H. Harrison , and within point blank shot of its ...
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... attacked and lost two more men , and had three wounded : still , by the 1st April , they began to erect the fort , which was afterwards called Boonesborough . It was situated near a salt lick , about sixty yards from the Kentucky river ...
... attacked and lost two more men , and had three wounded : still , by the 1st April , they began to erect the fort , which was afterwards called Boonesborough . It was situated near a salt lick , about sixty yards from the Kentucky river ...
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... attacks of small arms , in the hands of such desultory warriors , as their irregular supplies of provisions necessarily rendered the Indians . Such was the nature of the military structures of the pioneers against their enemies . They ...
... attacks of small arms , in the hands of such desultory warriors , as their irregular supplies of provisions necessarily rendered the Indians . Such was the nature of the military structures of the pioneers against their enemies . They ...
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... attacked by a number of Indians , who killed six men and wounded one . " This severe repulse deterred the party from prosecuting their daring enterprise , until the time mentioned above . When McGary's party had arrived at the head of ...
... attacked by a number of Indians , who killed six men and wounded one . " This severe repulse deterred the party from prosecuting their daring enterprise , until the time mentioned above . When McGary's party had arrived at the head of ...
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American appointed army arrived assembled attack bank battle Big Knife Boone Boonesborough British Burr Cahokia called Captain chief citizens claims Colonel Clark command commissioners Commonwealth confederacy Congress constitution convention countrymen court creek detachment district elected encamped enemy expedition favor Fort Pitt Fort Stanwix French friends frontier gallant gentlemen George Rogers Clark Governor Harrison Harrodsburg history of Kentucky honorable Humphrey Marshall hundred Indians inhabitants Innes interests Jefferson John judge justice Kaskaskia Kentucky river killed land legislative legislature letter Licks Logan Marshall ment Miami miles military militia Mississippi mouth navigation negotiation officer Ohio river Orleans party passed patriotic peace political possession present President resolutions savages Sebastian session settlements Shelby side Sir William Johnson Six Nations Spain Spanish spirit territory tion town treaty tribes troops tucky United village Virginia warriors Wayne western country Wilkinson
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Страница 306 - The day that France takes possession of New Orleans, fixes the sentence which is to restrain her forever within her low-water mark. It seals the union of two nations, who, in conjunction, can maintain exclusive possession of the ocean. From that moment we must marry ourselves to the British fleet and nation.
Страница 285 - That the government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that, as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions, as of the mode and measure of redress.
Страница 136 - THE groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave. And spread the roof above them, — ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication.
Страница 283 - President, or to bring them, or either of them, into contempt or disrepute; or to excite against them, or either or any of them, the hatred of the good people of the United States...
Страница 285 - Resolved, That the several states composing the United States of America are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their General Government; but that by compact under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States and of amendments thereto, they constituted a General Government for special purposes...
Страница 311 - England, a navy of the United States, are ready to join, and final orders are given to my friends and followers. It will be a host of choice spirits. Wilkinson shall be second to Burr only ; Wilkinson shall dictate the rank and promotion of his officers. Burr will proceed westward 1st August, never to return. With him goes his daughter ; the husband will follow in October, with a corps of worthies.
Страница 339 - That in the late campaign against the Indians on the Wabash, Governor WH Harrison has, in the opinion of this Legislature, behaved like a hero, a patriot, and a general; and that for his cool, deliberate, skillful, and gallant conduct in the late battle of Tippecanoe, he deserves the warmest thanks of the nation.
Страница 17 - America do presume for the present, and until our further pleasure be known, to grant warrants of survey or pass patents for any lands beyond the heads or sources of any of the rivers which fall into the Atlantic Ocean from the west or northwest...
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Страница 197 - Wilkinson to rush forward with the first battalion. The order was executed with promptitude, and this detachment gained the bank of the river just as the rear of the enemy had embarked...