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Maryland (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
itt. They passed the mountains, and spread death even to Bedford. The unhappy emigrant knew not if to brave danger, or to leave his home and his planted fields, for wretchedness and poverty. Nearly five hundred families, from the frontiers of Maryland and Virginia, fled to Winchester, unable to find so much as a hovel to shelter them from the weather, bare of every comfort, and forced to lie scattered among the woods. Letter from Winchester of 22 June, 1763, in Weyman, 238, 3, 2, of 4 Julye. To the horrors of Indian warfare were added new dangers to colonial liberty. In Virginia nearly a thousand volunteers, at the call of the Lieutenant Governor, hastened to Fort Cumberland and to the borders; and the Lieutenant Governor of Maryland was able to offer aid. Amherst to Bouquet, 25 August, 1763. The undecided strife between the proprietaries and the assembly of Pennsylvania checked the activity of that province. Its legislature sanctioned the equipment of seven hundred men,
Fort Wayne (Indiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
zette, 20 June, 1763. Ecuyer's Message to the chiefs of the Delawares. sparing neither woman nor child, and left behind them a tomahawk, Ecuyer to Bouquet, 30 May, 1763. as their declaration of war. Fort Ligonier was threatened, and the passes to the eastward were so watched, that it was very difficult to keep up any intercourse while the woods resounded with the wild death halloos, Declaration of Daniel Collet, horse driver, 30 May, 1763. which announced successive murders. Near Fort Wayne, just where the great canal which unites the waters of Lake Erie and the Wabash leaves the waters of the Maumee, stood Fort Miami, garrisoned also by an ensign and a few soldiers. Those who were on the lakes saw at least the water course which would take them to Niagara. Fort Miami was deep in the forest, out of sight and hearing of civilized man. On the twenty-seventh of May, Holmes, its commander, was informed that the fort at Detroit had been attacked, and put his men on their guard;
Lake Erie (United States) (search for this): chapter 7
up any intercourse while the woods resounded with the wild death halloos, Declaration of Daniel Collet, horse driver, 30 May, 1763. which announced successive murders. Near Fort Wayne, just where the great canal which unites the waters of Lake Erie and the Wabash leaves the waters of the Maumee, stood Fort Miami, garrisoned also by an ensign and a few soldiers. Those who were on the lakes saw at least the water course which would take them to Niagara. Fort Miami was deep in the forest, on the beach, near the mouth of Detroit River, and utterly defeated, a part turning back to Niagara, the larger part falling into the hands of the savages. Lieutenant Cuyler's Report of his being attacked and routed by a party of Indians on Lake Erie. Major Wilkins to Sir Jeffery Amherst, Niagara, 6 June, 1763. At eight o'clock in the night of the last day of June. May, the war belt reached the Indian village near Fort Ouatanon, just below Lafayette, in Indiana; the next morning the co
Amherst (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
own, on the eastern side of the strait; and five miles higher up, but on the same eastern side, the Ottawas. On the first day of May, Pontiac entered the fort with about fifty Major Gladwin to Sir J. Amherst, 14 May, 1763, enclosure No. 9 in Amherst to Egremont, 27 June, 1768. of his warriors, announcing his purpose in a few days to pay a more formal visit. He appeared on the seventh, with about three hundred warriors, armed with knives, tomahawks and guns, cut short and hid under their blsed Major Gladwin, to Sir J. Amherst, Detroit, 18 August, 1763. by the appearance of Dalyell, an aide-de-camp to Amherst, with a detachment of two hundred and sixty chap VII.} 1763. July. men. Dalyell to Amherst, 15 July, 1763, quoted in Amherst to Gladwin, 10 August, 1763. They had entered the river in the evening, and came up under cover of the night, or so small a command would have been intercepted, for the enemy were numerous, brave, and full of confidence from success. At once,
Cumberland (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
to Winchester, unable to find so much as a hovel to shelter them from the weather, bare of every comfort, and forced to lie scattered among the woods. Letter from Winchester of 22 June, 1763, in Weyman, 238, 3, 2, of 4 July, 1763. Correspondence of Lieut. Governor Fauquier of Virginia with the Board of Trade. To the horrors of Indian warfare were added new dangers to colonial liberty. In Virginia nearly a thousand volunteers, at the call of the Lieutenant Governor, hastened to Fort Cumberland and to the borders; and the Lieutenant Governor of Maryland was able to offer aid. Amherst to Bouquet, 25 August, 1763. The undecided strife between the proprietaries and the assembly of Pennsylvania checked the activity of that province. Its legislature sanctioned the equipment of seven hundred men, but refused to place them under the orders of the British general. Its design was rather to arm and pay the farmers and reapers on the frontier as a resident force for the protection o
Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
e protection of the country. This policy, from which it would not swerve, excited the utmost anger in the officers of the army. Lieut. Governor Hamilton of Pennsylvania to Gen. Amherst, 7 July, 1763. Amherst to Hamilton in reply, 9 July, 1763. Hamilton to Amherst, 11 July. Amherst to Hamilton, 16 July. Lieut. Colonel Robert the Provinces assisted us, this would have been the favorable moment to have crushed the barbarians, a service we cannot effect with our forces alone. against Pennsylvania brought upon it once chap. VII.} 1763. June. more the censure of the king Secretary of State to Amherst, October, 1763. for its supine and neglectful condrm in the purpose of keeping up an army in America, and substituting taxes by parliament for requisitions by the crown. So the general, with little aid from Pennsylvania, took measures for the relief of the West. The fortifications of Fort Pitt had never been finished, and the floods had opened it on three sides. But the brav
Bushy Run (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
herst: Camp at Edge Hill, 5 Aug. 1763. Night intervened, during which the English re- chap. VII.} 1763. Aug. mained on Edge Hill, a ridge a mile to the east of Bushy Run, commodious for a camp except for the total want of water. All that night hope cheered the Red Men. Morning dawned only to show the English party that they we But Bouquet in the two actions lost, in killed and wounded, about one-fourth of his men, Return of killed and wounded in the two actions at Edge Hill, near Bushy Run, the 5th and 6th August, 1763: total killed, 50; wounded, 60; missing, 5. Total of the whole, 115. and almost all his horses; so that he was obliged to destroy his stores, and was hardly able to carry his wounded. That night the English encamped at Bushy Run, and in four days more they arrived at Pittsburg. From that hour the Ohio valley remained securely to the white man. Before the news of the last disaster could reach New-York, the anger of Amherst against the bloody villains kne
Manchester (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
to promise a reward of one hundred pounds to the man who shall kill Pontiac, the chief of the Ottawas—a cowardly villain, &c. &c. Signed Jeff. Amherst. Had this spirit prevailed, the war would have for ever continued in an endless series of alternate murders, in which the more experienced Indian excelled the white man. The Senecas, against whom Amherst had specially directed unsparing hostilities, lay in ambush for one of his convoys about three miles be- chap VII.} 1763 Sept. low Niagara Falls; and on its return down the carrying-place, fell upon it with such suddenness and vigor that but eight wounded men escaped with their lives, while seventy-two were victims to the scalping-knife. The first effective measures towards a general pacification proceeded from the French in Illinois. De Neyon, the French officer at Fort Chartres, sent belts and messages, and peace-pipes to all parts of the continent, exhorting the many nations of savages to bury the hatchet, and take the Engli
Erie (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
en chap. VII.} 1763. May. his own. Hutchinson to Richard Jackson, August, 1763. His canoe could no longer quiver on the bosom of the St. Mary's, or pass into the clear waters of Lake Huron, or paddle through the strait that connects Huron and Erie, or cross from the waters of the St. Lawrence to those of the Ohio, without passing by the British flag. By what right was that banner unfurled in the west? What claim to the red man's forest could the English derive from victories over the Fren of saving his men from the scalpingknife. Mante's History of the War, 483. He himself, with a few others, were carried in triumph by the Indians to Detroit. Particulars regarding the loss of the post at Presqua Isle. The capitulation at Erie left Le Boeuf without hope. Attacked on the eighteenth, its gallant officer kept off the enemy till midnight. The Indians then succeeded in setting the blockhouse on fire; but he .escaped secretly, with his garrison, into the woods, Ensign Pr
Lake Superior (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
763. This belt we received from the Shawnees, and they received it from the Delawares, and they from the Senecas. and Wyandots, whose chiefs, slain in battle by the English, were still unavenged, Speech of Hudson, a Cayuga chief, to Captain Ourry, in June, 1763. until every Where, from the falls of Niagara and the piny declivities of the Alleghanies to the whitewood forests of the Mississippi Speech of Tamarois, chief of the Kaskaskias, to Fraser, in April, 1765. and the borders of Lake Superior, all the nations concerted to rise and put the English to death. Speech of the Miamis Indians, of 30 March, 1763. A prophetic spirit was introduced among the wigwams. A chief of the Abenakis persuaded first his own tribe, and then the red men of the west, that the Great Manitou had appeared to him in a vision, saying I am the Lord of Life; it is I who made all men; I wake for their safety. Therefore, I give you warning, that if you suffer the Englishmen to dwell among you, their
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