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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 32 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 20 0 Browse Search
James Barnes, author of David G. Farragut, Naval Actions of 1812, Yank ee Ships and Yankee Sailors, Commodore Bainbridge , The Blockaders, and other naval and historical works, The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 6: The Navy. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 12 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition. 10 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore) 8 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition. 6 0 Browse Search
Daniel Ammen, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.2, The Atlantic Coast (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 6 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: January 27, 1865., [Electronic resource] 4 0 Browse Search
Emilio, Luis F., History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry , 1863-1865 4 0 Browse Search
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler 2 0 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 8: (search)
The marks of devastation from a former plague were visible wherever the envoys went, and they witnessed the ex- Chap. VIII.} 1621. treme poverty and feebleness of the natives. Aug. The influence of the English over the aborigines was rapidly extended. A sachem, who menaced their safety, was himself compelled to sue for mercy; and nine chieftains subscribed an instrument of submission Sept. 18. to King James. The Bay of Massachusetts and harbor of Boston were fearlessly explored. Canonicus, the wavering sachem of the Narragansetts, whose territory had escaped the ravages of the pestilence, had at first desired to treat of peace. A bundle of arrows. 1622. wrapped in the skin of a rattlesnake, was now the token of his hostility. But when Bradford stuffed the skin with powder and shot, and returned it, his courage quailed, and he desired to be in amity with a race of men whose weapons of war were so terrible. The hostile expedition which caused the first Indian blood to be
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 9: (search)
the governor; and Miantonomoh himself, the great warrior of the Narragansetts, the youthful colleague 1632 Aug. 5. of Canonicus, became a guest at the board of Winthrop, and was present with the congregation at a sermon from Wilson. At last a Pewhen he came in winter to the cabin of the chief of Pokanoket, he was welcomed by Massasoit; and the barbarous heart of Canonicus, the chief of the Narragansetts, loved him as his son to the last gasp. The ravens, he relates with gratitude, fed me occupied by Williams, was within the territory of the Narragansett Indians; it was not long before an Indian deed from Canonicus 1638. Mar. 24. and Miantonomoh Bakus, i 89, 90. Knowles, 106, 107 Backus. made him the undisputed possessor of an t. Early in the week, the captains 22 of the expedition, with the pomp of a military escort, repaired to the court of Canonicus, the patriarch and ruler of the tribe; and the younger and more fiery 23 Miantonomoh, surrounded by two hundred of his