Conquest of the Country Northwest of the River Ohio 1778-1783; and Life of Gen. George Rogers Clark: Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Illustrations. With Numerous Sketches of Men who Served Under Clark, Volume 1Bowen-Merrill Company, 1896 - Clark family |
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Page 32 - Resurrection I shall Receive the same again by the Mighty Power of God, and as Touching such worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in this life I Give...
Page 335 - SIR : In order to save yourself from the impending storm that now threatens you, I order you immediately to surrender yourself, with all your garrison, stores, etc., etc. For if I am obliged to storm, you may depend on such treatment as is justly due to a murderer. Beware of destroying stores of any kind, or any papers or letters that are in your possession, or hurting one house in town — for, by heavens! if you do, there shall be no mercy shown you.
Page 31 - God for the same, and Calling to mind the mortality of my Body, and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to Die do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament that is to say...
Page 305 - I ordered the canoes to make the land, discharge their loading, and play backward and forward with all diligence, and pick up the men; and, to encourage the party, sent some of the strongest men forward, with orders, when they got to a certain distance, to pass the word back that the water was getting shallow, and when getting near the w^oods to cry out, 'Land!
Page 327 - As we could not afford to lose men, great care was taken to preserve them sufficiently covered, and to keep up a hot fire in order to intimidate the enemy as well as to destroy them. The embrasures of their cannon were frequently shut, for our riflemen, finding...
Page 495 - This is the truth and the real cause of the war between the English and us, which did not take place for some time after this treatment. But our women became cold and hungry and continued to cry. Our young men got lost for want of counsel to put them in the right path.
Page 308 - Frenchmen to decoy and take one of these men prisoner in such a manner as not to alarm the others, which they did. The information we got from this person was similar to that which we got from those we took on the river, except that of the British having that evening completed the wall of the fort, and that there were a good many Indians in town.
Page 476 - Kaskaskia river about three-quarters of a mile above the town, where we were informed that the people, a few days before, were under arms, but had concluded that the cause of the alarm was without foundation, and that at that time there was a great number of men in town, but that the Indians had generally left it, and at present all was quiet.
Page 307 - ... distance. Every man now feasted his eyes, and forgot that he had suffered anything, saying that all that had passed was owing to good policy and nothing but what a man could bear ; and that a soldier had no right to think, etc., — passing from one extreme to another, which is common in such cases.
Page 262 - You must be sensible of the feeling that I have for those brave officers and soldiers that are determined to share my fate, let it be what it will. I know the case is desperate ; but, sir, we must either quit the country or attack Mr.