 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1839 - 572 sivua
...shrunk from the sun of the early summer, and dozed away the day ; the frontier settler, singing in fancied security, sowed his crop, or, watching the...hour." In Western Virginia, more than twenty thousand Eeople were driven from their homes. Detroit was besieged y Pontiac himself, after a vain attempt to... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1839 - 536 sivua
...shrunk from the sun of the early summer, and dozed away the day ; the frontier settler, singing in fancied security, sowed his crop, or, watching the...hour." In Western Virginia, more than twenty thousand * See Henry's Narrative. — Thatcher's Indian Biography, Vol. II. p. 83. •eople were driven from... | |
 | James Handasyd Perkins - 1846 - 642 sivua
...great battle drew nigh which was to determine their fate and the possession of their noble lands, f At last the day came. The traders everywhere were...Virginia ran red again. " We hear," says a letter for Fort Pitt, " of scalping every hour." In Western Virginia, more than twenty thousand people were... | |
 | James Handasyd Perkins, John Mason Peck - 1850 - 820 sivua
...valleys to the lakes and the eastern hills. Bands of Chippeways gathered about Michillimackinac. Ottaways filled the woods near Detroit. The Maumee post, Presqu'Ile,...and Virginia ran red again. "We hear," says a letter for Fort Pitt, "of scalping every hour." In Western Virginia, more than twenty thousand people were... | |
 | James Handasyd Perkins, John Mason Peck - 1850 - 818 sivua
...everywhere were seized, their goods taken from them, and more than one hundred of them put to death. l\ine British forts yielded instantly, and the savages drank,...and Virginia ran red again. "We hear," says a letter for Fort Pitt, "of scalping every hour." In Western Virginia, more than twenty thousand people were... | |
 | James Handasyd Perkins, James R. Albach - 1852 - 826 sivua
...Niagara, Pitt, Ligonier, and every English fort was hemmed in by mingled tribes, who felt that the groat battle drew nigh which was to determine their fate...and Virginia ran red again. "We hear," says a letter for Fort Pitt, "of scalping every hour." In Western Virginia, more than twenty thousand people were... | |
 | James Wickes Taylor - 1854 - 562 sivua
...day came. The traders every where were seized, their goods taken from them, and more than one hundred put to death. Nine British forts yielded instantly,...Briton. The border streams of Pennsylvania and Virginia run red again. 6 We hear,' says a letter from Fort Pitt, 6 of scalping every hour.' In Western Virginia,... | |
 | James Wickes Taylor - 1854 - 604 sivua
...day came. The traders every where were seized, their goods taken from them, and more than one hundred put to death. Nine British forts yielded instantly,...Briton. The border streams of Pennsylvania and Virginia run red again. 'We hear,' says a letter from Fort Pitt, ' of scalping every hour.' In Western Virginia,... | |
 | James Wickes Taylor - 1854 - 602 sivua
...came. The traders every where were seized, their goods taken from them, and more than one hundred pat to death. Nine British forts yielded instantly, and...Briton. The border streams of Pennsylvania and Virginia run red again. ' We hear,' says a letter from Fort Pitt, ' of scalping every hour.' In Western Virginia,... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1855 - 908 sivua
...everywhere were seized with their goods, and more than one hundred put to death. Nine British torts yielded instantly, and the savages drank, "scooped...hollow of joined hands," the blood of many a Briton. More than twenty thousand people were driven from their homes, and horrible, unparalleled devastations... | |
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scooped up in the hollow of joined hands," the blood of many a Briton. Pontiac's immediate field of action was the garrison at Detroit. Here, however, the plans were frustrated by an Indian woman disclosing the plot the evening previous to his arrival. 
