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 |
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12 miles afternoon army marched arrived artillery AUGUST baggage battle battle of Newtown boats Boyd Butler camp campaign Capt Captain cattle Cayuga County Cayuga lake centennial Chemung Chonodote Clinton Colonel command creek crossed defile destroyed detachment Easton encamped enemy expedition fire Gen'l Genesee Genl ground half halted hill houses hundred Indian town Iroquois James Clinton John John Sullivan journal killed land Lieut Lieutenant light corps Livingston County main army Major march this day march'd Mohawk morning mountain Newtown night o'clock P. M. officers Oneida orders pack horses party passed Philip Van Cortlandt Poor Poor's brigade prisoners proceeded provisions quantity of corn rear Regiment Regt returned riflemen river road savages Seneca County Seneca lake sent SEPT settlement Six Nations soldiers squaw Sullivan Sullivan Campaign Sullivan's Expedition SUNDAY Susquehanna swamp Tioga Tories trees troops valley village whole wounded Wyoming York
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Página 493 - Come as the winds come, when Forests are rended, Come as the waves come, when Navies are stranded: Faster come, faster come, Faster and faster, Chief, vassal, page and groom, Tenant and master ! Fast they come, fast they come; See how they gather ! Wide waves the eagle plume Blended with heather.
Página 378 - 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 421 - Chatham as he rose], shocked to hear such principles confessed — to hear them avowed in this House, or in this country...
Página 528 - By bloody victory. Each valley, where the battle poured Its red and awful tide, Beheld the brave New England sword With slaughter deeply dyed. Their bones are on the northern hill, And on the southern plain, By brook and river, lake and rill, And by the roaring main. The land is holy where they fought, And holy where they fell; For by their blood that land was bought, The land they loved so well. Then glory to that valiant band, The honored saviours of the land...
Página 574 - 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 421 - That God and Nature put into our hands ?" I know not what ideas that Lord may entertain of God and Nature, but I know that such abominable 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 — to the cannibal savage, torturing, murdering...
Página 432 - 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.
Página 395 - I pour this wine as an emblem of joy and gladness. May the Great Ruler of the Universe bless and prosper our national, state, and city governments, preserve the union of the States, and may it be a bond of Friendship and Brotherly Love that shall endure through all time. Response. — So mote it be.
Página 515 - s more sure at moments to take hold Of the best feelings of mankind, which grow More tender, as we every day behold, Than that all-softening, over-powering knell, The tocsin of the soul — the dinner-bell.
Página 305 - I flatter myself that the orders with which I was entrusted are fully executed, as we have not left a single settlement or field of corn in the country of the Five Nations, or is there even the appearance of an Indian on this side of Niagara.