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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Beaver Dams , affair at the. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bennington , battle near. (search)
Bennington, battle near.
Falling short of provisions, Burgoyne sent out an expedition from his camp on the Hudson River to procure cattle, horses to mount Riedesel's dragoons, to try the affections of the country, and to complete a corps of loyalists.
Colonel Baum led the expedition, which consisted of 800 men, comprising German dragoons and British marksmen, a body of Canadians and Indians, some loyalists as guides, and two pieces of artillery.
They penetrated the country eastward of the Hudson towards Bennington, Vt., where the Americans had gathered a considerable quantity of supplies.
At that time (August, 1777), General Stark, disgusted because he had not been made a Continental brigadier-general, had resigned his colonelcy, taken the leadership of the New Hampshire militia, with the stipulation that he was to have an independent command, and was at Bennington with part of a brigade.
He had lately refused to obey a command of General Lincoln to join the main army opposin
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Big Blue Lick, battle at. (search)
Big Blue Lick, battle at.
Parties of Indians and Tories, from north of the Ohio, greatly harassed the settlements in Kentucky in 1782.
A large body of these, headed by Simon Girty, a cruel white miscreant, entered these settlements in August.
They were pursued by about 180 men, under Colonels Todd, Trigg, and Boone, who rashly attacked them (Aug. 19) at the Big Blue Lick, where the road from Maysville to Lexington crosses the Licking River in Nicholas county. One of the most sanguinary battles ever fought in Kentucky then and there occurred.
The Kentuckians lost sixty-seven men, killed, wounded, and prisoners; and, after a severe struggle, the rest escaped.
The slaughter in the river was great, the ford being crowded with white people and Indians, all fighting in horrid confusion.
The fugitives were keenly pursued for 20 miles. This was the last incursion south of the Ohio by any large body of barbarians.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Black Rock , surprise of. (search)
Black Rock, surprise of.
On July 11, 1813. Lieut.-Col. Cecil Bisshopp, with a motley party of regulars.
Canadians, and Indians, about 400 in number, crossed the Niagara River and landed a little below Black Rock (which was a naval station, two miles below Buffalo). just before daylight.
His object was to surprise and capture the garrison, and especially the large quantity of stores collected there by the Americans; also the shipyard.
These were defended by only about 200 militia and a dozen men in a blockhouse.
There were some infantry and
Bisshopp's monument dragoon recruits from the South on their way to Fort George, besides a little more than 100 Indians under the young Cornplanter, who had been educated at Philadelphia, and had gone hack to his blanket and feather head-dress.
The former were under the command of Gen. Peter B. porter, then at his home near Black Rock.
Bisshopp surprised the camp at Black Pock.
when the militia fled to Buffalo.
leaving their artillery