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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 18: (search)
amlets, fifteen in number, were pillaged, burned, and utterly destroyed. That year the Cherokees had opened new fields for maize, not in the vales only, but on the sides and summits of the hills, where the fugitives from the lower settlements were to make their bread. But all the plantations, teeming with chap. XVIII.} 1761. prodigious quantities of corn, were laid waste; and four thousand of the red people were driven to wander among the mountains. The English army, till its return in July to Fort Prince George, suffered from heat, thirst, watchings, and fatigue of all sorts; in bad weather they had no shelter but boughs and bowers; for twenty days they were on short allowance; their feet were torn by briers and mangled by the rocks; but they extended the English frontier seventy miles towards the west; and they compelled the Cherokees to covenant peace, at Charleston, with the royal governor and council. I am come to you, said Attakulla-kulla, as a messenger from the whole na
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 19: (search)
halked out, said Bedford; a much longer continuance of the war, however relieved by the lustre of farther conquests, is likely to prove fatal to the nation; and in July he accepted the embassy to France, though the appointment was not declared till the first of September. A good peace with foreign enemies, said Hutchinson, fromad eleven thousand effective men, and were recruited by nearly a thousand negroes from the Leeward Islands, and by fifteen hundred from Jamaica. Before the end of July, the needed reinforcements arrived from New York and New England; among these was Putnam, the brave ranger of Connecticut, and numbers of men less happy, because nthusiasm of the English, such the resolute zeal of the sailors and soldiers, such the unity of action between the fleet and army, that the vertical sun of June and July, the heavy rains of August, raging fever, and strong and well defended fortresses, all chap. XIX.} 1762. the obstacles of nature and art, were surmounted, and th
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