The History of North America: The Louisiana Purchase and the westward movement, by C.M. Geersubscribers only, 1904 |
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... officers to organize Indian raids against the frontier and his work was to destroy and drive beyond the mountains all the settlers , and we have his own statement that up to July , 1777 , he had sent out fifteen Indian expeditions . The ...
... officers to organize Indian raids against the frontier and his work was to destroy and drive beyond the mountains all the settlers , and we have his own statement that up to July , 1777 , he had sent out fifteen Indian expeditions . The ...
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... officers . Hamilton , greatly hated by the Americans because of his complicity in many scalping raids against defenceless settlements , was sent a prisoner to Virginia . Here he was closely confined , but at the request of Washington ...
... officers . Hamilton , greatly hated by the Americans because of his complicity in many scalping raids against defenceless settlements , was sent a prisoner to Virginia . Here he was closely confined , but at the request of Washington ...
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... officers and be guided by them , but that every man must be also his own officer and if compelled to give way before a bayonet charge they were to return and begin fighting again as quickly as they could . The battle was fiercely fought ...
... officers and be guided by them , but that every man must be also his own officer and if compelled to give way before a bayonet charge they were to return and begin fighting again as quickly as they could . The battle was fiercely fought ...
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... officer . They were most successful when fighting in the Indian method , every man for his own hand . The treaty of peace which closed the Revolution was the first great triumph of American diplomacy . It was won against the keenest ...
... officer . They were most successful when fighting in the Indian method , every man for his own hand . The treaty of peace which closed the Revolution was the first great triumph of American diplomacy . It was won against the keenest ...
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... officers of the Revolution . In 1776 , Congress passed a resolution promising bounty lands of from one hundred to five hun- dred acres to the revolutionary officers according to their rank . At that time the nation had no land , and the ...
... officers of the Revolution . In 1776 , Congress passed a resolution promising bounty lands of from one hundred to five hun- dred acres to the revolutionary officers according to their rank . At that time the nation had no land , and the ...
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