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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 45 5 Browse Search
James Barnes, author of David G. Farragut, Naval Actions of 1812, Yank ee Ships and Yankee Sailors, Commodore Bainbridge , The Blockaders, and other naval and historical works, The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 6: The Navy. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 20 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition. 14 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition. 14 0 Browse Search
General Horace Porter, Campaigning with Grant 12 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 10 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition. 6 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 5 1 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: November 6, 1863., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
James Russell Soley, Professor U. S. Navy, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, The blockade and the cruisers (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 2 0 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter 20: (search)
Dablon, a missionary, Journal de Dablon who had recently arrived from France. They were Dablon hospitably welcomed at Onondaga, the principal village of the tribe. A general convention was held, by Nov. 5. their desire; and, before the multitudiin their hunt after Huron fugitives, still roamed even to the Isle of Orleans, a company of fifty Frenchmen embarked for Onondaga. 1656. May 7. Diffuse harangues, dances, songs, and feastings, were their welcome from the Indians. In a general convo in the beautiful valleys of Western New York. The Jesuit priests published their faith from the Mohawk to the Genesee, Onondaga remaining the central station. But the savage nature of the tribes was unchanged. At this very time, a ruthless war us zeal was still active. Le Moyne once 1661. more appeared among the Five Nations, and was received with affection at Onondaga. The deputies of the Senecas, the Cayugas, and the Onondagas, assembled to the sound of the bell that had belonged to t
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter XXI (search)
Salt Springs, Aug. 3. while a party was sent to ravage the country of the Oneidas, with orders to cut up their corn, burn their villages, put to death all who should offer resistance, and take six chiefs as hostages. Meantime, an aged Aug. 8. Onondaga captive, who had refused to fly, was abandoned to the fury of the allies of the French; and never did the marvellous fortitude of an Indian brave display more fully its character of passive grandeur. All the tortures that more than four hundreissioners to be appointed under the treaty of Ryswick. That the Five Nations were always con- Smith, 157 sidered subjects of England, said Bellamont, can be manifested to all the world; but De Callieres, send- 1697 ing ambassadors directly to Onondaga to regulate the exchange of prisoners, avoided an immediate decision. The Iroquois were proud of their independence; France asserted its right to dominion; England claimed to be in possession. Religious sympathies inclined the nations to the F
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter XXII (search)
e Iroquois, could not say father; they must use a more definite expression. Their nouns implying relation says Brebeuf, always include the signification of one of the three persons of the possessive pronoun. They cannot say father, son, master, sepa- Chap. XXII.} rately; the noun must be limited by including within itself the pronoun for the person to whom it relates. The missionaries could not, therefore, translate the doxology literally, but chanted among the Hurons, and doubtless at Onondaga, Glory be to our Father, and to his Son, and to their Holy Ghost. <*>beuf, 81. Just so, the savage could not say tree, or house; the Edwards. word must always be accompanied by prefixes defining Duponceau, on Zeisberger, 99. its application. The only pronoun which can, with any plausibility, be called an article, is always blended Eliot, Grammar XV. with the noun. In like manner, the languages are defective in terms that express generalizations. Our forests abound, for example,