The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War After the Conquest of Canada, Band 1Little, Brown, 1885 - 384 Seiten |
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The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War After the Conquest of Canada ... Francis Parkman Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1994 |
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Account Algonquin Amherst arms army arrived assailants attack bank bark began blockhouse boats British camp Canada Canadians canoes Captain chief Christie close colony command council Cuyler Dalzell danger Delawares detachment Detroit encampment enemy English Father fight fire force forest Fort Pitt forts France French fur-trade garrison Gladwyn ground guns hand hatchet heard Henry Hist hostile hundred Hurons Indians Iroquois Jesuit Johnson killed Lake Erie Lake George Lake Huron land Lenape Letter lodge Michillimackinac Mississippi morning Nations neighboring Niagara night officers Ohio Ojibwas Ottawas palisades party passed peace Penn Pontiac posts Pottawattamies prisoners race reached river Rogers sachem savage scalp schooner sent settlements Shawanoes shore side siege siege of Detroit Sir Jeffrey Amherst Sir William Johnson soldiers soon spirit squaws stood tion told traders tribes troops vessel village wampum warriors wild wilderness woods wounded Wyandots yells
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Seite 342 - At length, disappointed in the hope of seeing resistance made to the enemy, and sensible, of course, that no effort of my own unassisted arm could avail against four hundred Indians, I thought only of seeking shelter amid the slaughter which was raging. I observed many of the Canadian inhabitants of the fort calmly looking on, neither opposing the Indians nor suffering injury; and from this circumstance, I conceived a hope of finding security in their houses.
Seite 139 - 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.
Seite 86 - 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.
Seite 128 - I have this day* signified to Mr. Pitt that he may dispose of my slight carcass as he pleases, and that I am ready for any undertaking within the reach and compass of my skill and cunning. I am in a very bad condition both with the gravel and rheumatism, but I had much rather die than decline any kind of service that offers.
Seite 113 - 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.
Seite 346 - 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...
Seite 113 - 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.
Seite 329 - 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. " During his sleep, you have taken advantage of him and possessed yourselves of Canada. But his nap is almost at an end. I think I hear him already stirring and inquiring for his children, the Indians:—and when he does awake, what must become of you ? He will destroy you utterly.
Seite 328 - The Indians now gravely smoked their pipes, while I inwardly endured the tortures of suspense. At length, the pipes being finished, as well as a long pause by which they were succeeded, Minavavana, taking a few strings of wampum in his hand, began the following speech...
Seite 345 - ... in the corner in which I was, must have contributed. In a word, after taking several turns in the room, during which they told M. Langlade how many they had killed, and how many scalps they had taken, they returned down stairs, and I, with sensations not to be expressed, heard the door, which was the barrier between me and my fate, locked for the second time.