History of the Discovery of America: Of the Landing of Our Forefathers at Plymouth, and of Their Most Remarkable Engagements with the Indians in New-Englannd [!] from Their First Landing in 1620, Until the Final Subjugation of the Natives in 1679. To which is Annexed the Particulars of Almost Every Important Engagement with the Savages at the Westward to the Pesent Day. Including the Defeat of Generals Braddock, Harmer and St. Clair, by the Indians at the Westward; the Creek and Seminole War, &c |
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... friendly assurances , the day following return- ed accompanied by the grand sachem ( Massasoit ) and a number of his chief men , to whom the English gave a welcome reception , presenting them with many trinkets which the natives ...
... friendly assurances , the day following return- ed accompanied by the grand sachem ( Massasoit ) and a number of his chief men , to whom the English gave a welcome reception , presenting them with many trinkets which the natives ...
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... friendly Indians without , exhibited a grand and awful scene ! In less than two hours from the com- mencement of the bloody action , the English com- pleted their work . Eighty wigwams were burnt , and upwards of eight hundred Indians ...
... friendly Indians without , exhibited a grand and awful scene ! In less than two hours from the com- mencement of the bloody action , the English com- pleted their work . Eighty wigwams were burnt , and upwards of eight hundred Indians ...
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... friendly Pequot , that the enemy were encamped in a swamp , a few miles to the westward . The troops pushed forward , and on the succeeding day arrived at the border of said swamp , which they found a thicket so extremely boggy as to ...
... friendly Pequot , that the enemy were encamped in a swamp , a few miles to the westward . The troops pushed forward , and on the succeeding day arrived at the border of said swamp , which they found a thicket so extremely boggy as to ...
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... friendly assurances : " Whereas my father , my brother , and myself , have uniformly submitted to the good and wholesome laws of his majesty , the king of England , and have ever respected his faithful subjects , the English , as our ...
... friendly assurances : " Whereas my father , my brother , and myself , have uniformly submitted to the good and wholesome laws of his majesty , the king of England , and have ever respected his faithful subjects , the English , as our ...
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... friendly Indian of the Narragan- set tribe . Fortunately forthem , this Indian had been taken into favor by the Rev. Mr Elliot , by whom he ead been taught to read and write , and became much attached to the English . The Gov. upon ...
... friendly Indian of the Narragan- set tribe . Fortunately forthem , this Indian had been taken into favor by the Rev. Mr Elliot , by whom he ead been taught to read and write , and became much attached to the English . The Gov. upon ...
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