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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 5: (search)
e war path, was lightly esteemed. Haldimand to Germain, 15 Sept., 1779. Brandt was not at Wyoming. This appears from Butler's report; and compare Brodhead Documents, VIII. 752. His attachment to the English increased to a passion on the allianceherished implacable hate. Through his interest, and by the blandishments of gifts and pay and chances of revenge, Colonel John Butler lured the Seneca warriors to cross the border of Pennsylvania under the British flag. The party of savages and them those of two field officers and seven captains. The rangers saved the lives of but five of their captives. Major John Butler to Lieutenant-colonel Bolton, dated Lacuwanack, 8 July, 1778. On the British side only two whites were killed and ethe bench of bishops; on which the Bishop of Peterborough traced the resemblance between the proclamation and the acts of Butler at Wyoming. He added: There is an article in the extraordinaries of the army for scalping-knives. Great Britain defeats
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 8: (search)
far more hazardous enterprise, and had obtained permanent possession of all the important posts and settlements on the Illinois and Wabash, rescued the inhabitants from British dominion, and established civil government in its republican form. Butler's History of Kentucky, 113. The conspiracy of the Indians embraced those of the south. Early in the year 1779, Cherokees and warriors from every hostile tribe south of the Ohio, to the number of a thousand, assembled at Chickamauga. To resly fertile country on the Cumberland Chap. VIII.} 1779. river. Clark could not pursue his career of victories, for the regiment designed for his support had been diverted, and thus the British gained time to re-enforce and fortify Detroit. Butler's History of Kentucky, 113. But Jefferson, then governor of Virginia, gave instructions to occupy a station on the Mississippi, between the mouth of the Ohio and the parallel of 36° 30′; and in the spring of 1780, Clark, choosing a strong and com
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 23: (search)
le force in two 27. columns across the Haw, and encamped near Alle- Chap. XXIII.} 1781. Feb. 27. mance creek. For seven days, Greene lay within ten miles of the British camp, but baffled his enemy by taking a new position every night. No fear of censure could hurry his determined mind. He waited till in March he was joined by the south-west Virginia March. militia under William Campbell, by another brigade of militia from Virginia under General Lawson, by two from North Carolina under Butler and Eaton, and by four hundred regulars raised for eighteen months. Then on the tenth, while Cornwallis was on 10. his march to New Garden or the Quaker meetinghouse, he prepared to hazard an engagement. On the fourteenth, he encamped near Guilford court- 14. house, within eight miles of Cornwallis. At dawn of day on the fifteenth, Cornwallis, having 15. sent off his baggage under escort, set in motion the rest of his army, less than nineteen hundred in number, all of them veteran tro