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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 5: (search)
th nature's assistance, he made a good intrenchment, and, by clearing chap. V} 1754. the bushes out of the meadows, prepared what he called a charming field for an encounter. A small, light detachment, sent out on wagon-horses to reconnoitre, returned without being able to find any one. By the rules of wilderness warfare, a party that skulks and hides is an enemy. At night the little army was alarmed, and remained under arms from two o'clock till near sunrise. On the morning of the twenty-seventh, Gist arrived. He had seen the trail of the French within five miles of the American camp. In the evening of that day, about nine o'clock, an express came from the Half-King, that the armed body of the French was not far off. Through a heavy rain, in a night as dark as can be conceived, with but forty men, marching in single file along a most narrow trace, Washington made his way to the camp of the Half-King. After council, it was agreed to go hand in hand, and strike the invaders.
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 10: (search)
t the regular officers should command the provincials, and that the troops should be quartered on private houses. On the next day, Shirley acquainted him with the state of Oswego, advising that two battalions should be sent forward for its protection. The boats were ready; every magazine along the passage plentifully supplied. But the general could not think of the wants of the garrison, and was meditating triumphs of authority. The great, the important day for Albany dawned. On the twenty-seventh, in spite of every subterfuge, the soldiers were at last billeted upon the town. Journal of A. Golden. Albany, 27 June. The mayor wished them all to go back again; for, said he, we can defend our frontiers ourselves. Thus Abercrombie dilatorily whiled away the summer, ordering a survey of Albany, that it might be ditched and stockaded round; and men talked of certain victory and conquest. On the twelfth of July, the brave Bradstreet returned from Oswego, having thrown into the fo
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 15: (search)
ntry; and it is not my intention to hurt a hair of your head. There is but one way by which I can insure your safety; you shall go with my warriors, and they shall protect you. Minutes of Council held 22, October, 1759. On Friday, the twenty-seventh, Lyttleton, with the Cherokee envoys, left Charleston to repair to Congaree, the gathering place for the militia of Carolina. Thither came Christopher Gadsden, Ramsay's History of South Carolina, II. 458. born in chap. XV.} 1759. 1724, rted town of Stecoe. The Royal Scots and Highlanders trod the rugged defiles, which were as dangerous as men had ever penetrated, with fearless alacrity, and seemed refreshed by coming into the presence of mountains. On the morning of the twenty-seventh, the whole chap. XV.} 1760. party began their march early having a distance of eighteen miles to travel to the town of Etchowee, the nearest of the middle settlements of the Cherokees. Let Montgomery be wary, wrote Washington; he has a subt