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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter XXIII (search)
stake; and neither valor nor piety could save them from death by slow torments and fire.—Such is the early history of Mississippi. Ill success did but increase the disposition to continue the war. To advance the colony, a royal edict 1737 permitted a ten years freedom of commerce between the West India Islands and Louisiana; while a new expedition against the Chickasas, receiving aid not from Illinois only, but even from Montreal and Quebec, and from France, made its rendezvous in Arkan- 1739. sas, on the St. Francis River. In the last of June, the whole army, composed of twelve hundred whites, and twice that number of red and black men, took up its quarters in Fort Assumption, on the bluff of Memphis. But autumn wasted itself in languor and weariness of spirit; the recruits from France, the Canadians, sunk under the climate. When, in March, 1740, a small detachment proceeded towards the Chickasa country, they were met by messengers, who supplicated for peace; and Bienville gla
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter 24: (search)
ed to him Urlsperger, i. 191. directly in every emergency. Nor was this all. In the summer of 1739, the civil 1739. Aug. and war chiefs of the Muskhogees held a general council in Cowetas, and ad1739. Aug. and war chiefs of the Muskhogees held a general council in Cowetas, and adjourned it to Cusitas, on the Stephens's Journal of Proceedings in Georgia, II. 67-142 Von Reck, 30-33. Spalding, 263. Chattahouchee; and Oglethorpe, making his way through solitary paths, fearless in? No peaceful desert yet unclaimed by Spain? At last, a convention was signed. The mutual 1739 Jan. claims for damages sustained in commerce were balanced and liquidated; and, while the king ore, or attempt to justify their conduct. In an ill hour for herself, in a happy one for Amer- 1739 Oct. 23. ica, England declared war against Spain. If the rightfulness of the European colonial t of Florida. Having, in September, 1739, received instructions from England of the approaching 1739 Sept. war with Spain, Oglethorpe hastened, before the close of the year, to extend the boundaries