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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 9: (search)
hat its enemies had vanished through fear. Exultation followed; and hundreds of the Pequods spent much of the last night of their lives in revelry, at a time when the sentinels of the English were within hearing of their songs. Two hours be- May 26. fore day, the soldiers of Connecticut put themselves in motion towards the enemy; and, as the light of morning began to dawn, they made their attack on the principal fort, which stood in a strong position at the summit of a hill. Compare E. R. Potter's Early History of Narragalsett, 24. Williams in III. Mass. Hist. Coll. III. 133. The colonists felt that they were fighting for the security of their homes; that, if defeated, the war-whoop would immediately resound near their cottages, and their wives and children be abandoned to the scalping-knife and the tomahawk. They ascend to the attack; a watch-dog bays an alarm at their approach; the Indians awake, rally, and resist, as well as bows and arrows can resist weapons of steel. The
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 10: (search)
persons; Winthrop, i. 268. and had Hampden designed to emigrate, he whose maxim Nulla vestigia retrorsum. in life forbade retreat, and Chap. X.} 1638 whose resolution was as fixed as it was calm, possessed energy enough to have accomplished his purpose. He undoubtedly had watched with deep interest the progress of Massachusetts; the Conclusions had early attracted his attention; Nugent, i. 173, 174. and in 1631 he had taken part in a purchase of territory on the Narragansett. Potter's Narragansett, 14.—Comp. Trumbull. It has been conjectured, Belknap's Biog. II. 229. asserted, N. Amer. Review, VI. 28. and even circumstantially related, Fr. Baylies, Memoir, i. 110, takes fire at the thought that he passed a winter with the colony of New Plymouth. A person who bore the same or nearly the same name, II. Massachusetts Hist. Coil VIII. 258. More probably John Hamblin; a common name in the Old Colony. was undoubtedly there; but the greatest patriot-statesman