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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Mass. officers and men who died. | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Hamilton, Henry 1777-1796
Military officer; born in England; was lieutenant-governor of Detroit during the Revolutionary War. He was one of the most active promoters of Indian raids upon the frontier settlements of the Americans in the Northwest.
To Detroit he summoned several Indian nations to a council late in 1777; and from that point he sent abroad along the frontiers bands of savages to murder and plunder the American settlers.
Their cruelties he applauded as evidence of their attachment to the royal cause.
He gave standing rewards for scalps, but offered none for prisoners.
His war-parties, composed of white men and Indians, spared neither men, women, nor children.
He planned a confederation of the tribes to desolate Virginia.
In 1778 he wrote to Lord George Germaine (q. v.), whose favorite he was, Next year there will be the greatest number of savages on the frontier that has ever been known, as the Six Nations have sent belts around to encourage those allies who hav