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Cedars, affair at the
In 1776 there was a small American party posted at the Cedars Rapids of the St. Lawrence River.
under Colonel Bedel, of New Hampshire.
While the colonel was sick at Lachine.
Captain Foster, with some regulars, Canadians, and 500 Mohawks, under Brant, came down the river and attacked and captured this post without resistance.
Arnold went out from Montreal with a force to attack the captors; but, to prevent the Indians murdering the prisoners, he consented to a compromise for an exchange.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Civil War in the United States . (search)
Foster, Charles 1828-
Financier; born in Seneca county, O., April 12, 1828; was first elected to Congress as a Republican in 1870; elected governor of Ohio in 1879 and 1881; was appointed Secretary of the United States Treasury in February, 1891.
He was concerned in a number of financial enterprises in which he acquired a large fortune, but in 1893 was obliged to make an assignment of his vast interests for the benefit of his creditors.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wheeler , William Almon 1819 -1887 (search)