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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 6: (search)
nts of surveys without patents, or even without warrants,— where the people were never assembled but at musters, there was room for glaring mistakes in the enumerations. To Virginia may be assigned one hundred and sixty-eight thousand white inhabitants; to North Carolina, scarcely less than seventy thousand; to South Carolina, forty thousand; to Georgia, not more than five thousand; to the whole country south of the Potomac, two hundred and eighty-three thousand. The Board of Trade in August, 1755, assign to Georgia, 3,000 white inhabitants; to South Carolina, 25,000; to North Carolina, 50,000; to Virginia, 125,000; to Maryland, 100,000; to Pennsylvania, with Delaware, 220,000; to New Jersey, 75,000; to New-York, 55,000; to Connecticut, 100,000; to Rhode Island, 30,000; to Massachusetts Bay, 200,000; to New Hampshire, 75,000. The white population of any one of five, or perhaps even of six of the American provinces, was greater singly than that of all Canada, and the aggregate i
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 8: (search)
ods re-echo their war-whoop, fired irregularly, but with deadly aim, at the fair mark offered by the compact body of men beneath them. None of the English that were engaged would say they saw a hundred of the enemy, H. Sharpe to Baltimore. Aug. 1755. and many of the officers, who were in the heat of the action the whole time, would not assert that they saw one. H. Sharpe to Secretary Calvert, 11 August, 1755. The combat was obstinate, and continued for two hours with scarcely any ch who declined to follow them, and even fired upon them from the rear. Letter of Wm. Smith, of New-York, of 27 July, 1755. Account sent to Lord Albemarle,—in particular, the Report of the Court of Inquiry. So too, Sharpe to Lord Baltimore, August, 1755. Of eighty-six officers, twenty-six were killed,—among them, Sir Peter Hal- chap. VIII.} 1755. ket,—and thirty-seven were wounded, including Gage 1755 and other field-officers. Of the men, one half were killed or wounded. Braddock braved e<