Journals of the Military Expedition of Major General John Sullivan Against the Six Nations of Indians in 1779: With Records of Centennial Celebrations; Prepared Pursuant to Chapter 361, Laws of the State of New York, of 1885Knapp, Peck & Thomson, Printers, 1887 - 579 páginas Donated by Carl Schaeffer. |
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12 miles afternoon army marched arrived artillery AUGUST baggage battle battle of Newtown boats Boyd Butler called camp Capt Captain cattle Cayuga Cayuga lake Chemung Clinton Colonel command creek crossed defile destroyed detachment east side Easton enemy expedition fire flanking division Fort Schuyler front garrison Gen'l Genesee Genl ground guard half halted hill houses hundred incamp'd Indian town Iroquois James Clinton Journal killed land Lieut Lieutenant Livingston County march this day march'd Mohawk Mohawk River morning mountain Newtown o'clock P. M. oClock officers Oneida pack horses party passed Philip Van Cortlandt Poor prisoners proceeded provisions quantity of corn rear Regiment Regt returned river road savages Seneca County Seneca lake sent SEPT settlement Six Nations soldiers squaw Sullivan Sullivan Campaign Sullivan's Expedition SUNDAY Susquehanna swamp thro THURSDAY Tioga Tories trees troops TUESDAY village whole woods wounded Wyoming York
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Página 376 - A fire devoureth before them, and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
Página 487 - Come as the winds come, when Forests are rended, Come as the waves come, when Navies are stranded...
Página 525 - When your army entered the country of the Six Nations, we called you the town destroyer : and to this day, when your name is heard, our women look behind them and turn pale, and our children cling close to the necks of their mothers.
Página 417 - And indeed such a dreadful terror did the Almighty let fall upon their spirits, that they would fly from us and run into the very flames, where many of them perished.
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Página 568 - I expect the most eminent services from them and I shall be mistaken if their presence does not go far towards producing a general desertion among the savages.
Página 453 - Impressed with these ideas, we conceive that it is our duty, and we rejoice that it is in our power...
Página 419 - That God and nature have put into our hands ! What ideas of God and nature that noble lord may entertain I know not ; but I know that such detestable principles are equally abhorrent to religion and humanity. What ! to attribute the sacred sanction of God and nature to the massacres of the Indian scalping-knife!
Página 419 - I am astonished, I am shocked, to hear such principles confessed — to hear them avowed in this house or in this country...
Página 430 - I may challenge the whole orations of Demosthenes and Cicero, and of any more eminent orator, if Europe has furnished more eminent, to produce a single passage, superior to the speech of Logan, a Mingo chief, to Lord Dunmore, when governor of this state.