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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter XXIII (search)
to the Tombecbee, his party ingloriously floated down the river. In the last days of June, he landed on the banks of the Bayou St. John. But where was D'Artaguette, the brave commander Lett. Ed, IV 291. in the Illinois, the pride of the flower of Canada? And where was the gallant Vincennes, whose name, in honor of the founder of a state, is borne by the oldest settlement of Indiana? The young D'Artaguette had already gained glory in the war against the Natchez, braving death under Du Petit, in Lett. Ed. IV. 291. every form. Advanced to the command in the Illinois, he obeyed the summons of Bienville; and, with an Chap XXIII.} army of about fifty French soldiers and more than a thousand red men, accompanied by Father Senat, and 1736 by the Canadian De Vincennes, the careful hero stole cautiously and unobserved into the country of the Chickasas, and, on the evening before the appointed May 9. day, encamped near the rendezvous among the sources of the Yalabusha. But the ex