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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition. 13 1 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 10: (search)
s of government; preserved good order amongst themselves; and held the country as far as the St. Mary's, in defiance of South Carolina and of the Spaniards at St. Augustine. At the same time men of European origin were chap. X.} 1756. penetrating the interior of Tennessee from Carolina; and near the junction of the Telliquo and the Tennessee, a little band of two hundred men, three-fifths of whom were provincials, under the command of Captain Demere, were engaged in completing the New Fort Loudoun, which was to insure the command of the country. They exulted in possessing a train of artillery, consisting of twelve great guns which had been brought to the English camp, Gov. Lyttleton of South Carolins to the Lords of Trade, 31 Dec. 1756. from such a distance as the seaport, and over such prodigious mountains. The Cherokees were much divided in sentiment. Use all means you think proper, wrote Lyttleton, to induce our Indians to take up the hatchet. Promise a reward to every ma
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 11: (search)
ans. The two great valleys of the Mississippi and the St. Lawrence were connected chiefly by three well known routes,—by way of Waterford to Fort Duquesne, by way of the Maumee to the Wabash, and by way of Chicago to the Illinois. Of the North American continent, the French claimed, and seemed to possess, twenty parts in twenty-five, leaving four only to Spain, and but one to Britain. Their territory exceeded that of the English twenty-fold. As the men composing the garrison at Fort Loudoun, in Tennessee, were but so many hostages in the hands of the Cherokees, the claim of France to the valleys of the Mississippi and the St. Lawrence seemed established by possession. America and England were humiliated. They longed to avenge themselves; yet, Sharpe, of Maryland, made the apology of the viceroy, approved his system, and again and again urged taxation by chap. XI.} 1757. parliament. From every royal province complaints having the same tendency were renewed. From New Hampshir
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 15: (search)
nter to Gov. Lyttleton, 27 June, 1759. We live at present in great harmony, wrote Demere from Fort Loudoun; and there are no bad talks. Capt. Paul Demere to Lyttleton, 10 July, 1759. Tranquillichap. XV.} 1759. and North Carolina; invited Virginia to send reinfor cements and supplies to Fort Loudoun by the road from that province; sought the active alliance of the Chickasaws as ancient enemibastions. J. Francis to Gov. Lyttleton, 6 March, 1760. Drayton's South Carolina, 246. Yet Fort Loudoun, on the Tennessee, was exposed to the savages, beyond the reach of succor. Adair's History Lords of Trade, 20 July, 1760. If he had chap. XV.} 1760. advanced to relieve, the siege of Fort Loudoun, he must have abandoned his wounded men and his baggage. On the following night, deceiving t July, reached Fort Prince George. The retreat of Montgomery was the knell of the famished Fort Loudoun. By the unanimous resolve of the officers, James Stuart, afterwards Indian agent for the Sou