Journals of the Military Expedition of Major General John Sullivan: Against the Six Nations of Indians in 1779. With Records of Centennial Celebrations. Prep. Pursuant to Chapter 361, Laws of the State of New YorkKnapp, Peck & Thomson, 1887 - 579 עמודים |
תוכן
| 3 | |
| 15 | |
| 42 | |
| 52 | |
| 62 | |
| 80 | |
| 86 | |
| 92 | |
| 291 | |
| 306 | |
| 312 | |
| 336 | |
| 360 | |
| 380 | |
| 393 | |
| 400 | |
| 102 | |
| 137 | |
| 168 | |
| 178 | |
| 192 | |
| 198 | |
| 213 | |
| 223 | |
| 240 | |
| 246 | |
| 266 | |
| 275 | |
| 285 | |
| 470 | |
| 483 | |
| 489 | |
| 498 | |
| 506 | |
| 512 | |
| 520 | |
| 522 | |
| 537 | |
| 548 | |
| 556 | |
| 567 | |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
12 miles afternoon army marched arrived artillery AUGUST baggage battle battle of Newtown boats Boyd Butler called camp Capt Captain cattle Cayuga Cayuga lake Chemung Clinton Colonel command creek crossed defile destroyed detachment east side Easton enemy expedition fire Fort Schuyler garrison Gen'l Genesee Genl ground guard half halted hill houses hundred incamp'd Indian town Iroquois James Clinton Journal killed land Lieut Lieutenant Livingston County Major march this day march'd Mohawk Mohawk River MONDAY morning mountain Newtown o'clock P. M. oClock officers Oneida orders pack horses party passed Philip Van Cortlandt Poor prisoners proceeded provisions quantity of corn rear Regiment Regt returned river road savages Seneca County Seneca lake sent SEPT settlement soldiers squaw Sullivan Sullivan Campaign Sullivan's Expedition SUNDAY Susquehanna swamp three miles thro THURSDAY Tioga Tories trees troops TUESDAY village ware Waterloo woods wounded Wyoming York
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 378 - thousands of fruit trees and great quantities of beans and potatoes. It might be said to be literally true of this army, that " The land was as the Garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness.
עמוד 421 - of God and nature, but I know that such abominable principles are abhorrent to religion and humanity. What ! to attribute the sacred sanction of God and nature to the massacres of the Indian scalping-knife, to the cannibal savage torturing, murdering, roasting, and eating, literally
עמוד 494 - And there was mounting in hot haste ; the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed. And swiftly forming in the ranks,
עמוד 453 - 1 have but to give stretch to the Indian forces under my direction, and they amount to thousands, to overtake the hardened enemies of Great Britain. If the frenzy of hostility should remain, I trust I shall stand acquitted in the eyes of God and man, in executing the vengeance of the
עמוד 421 - the mangled victims of his barbarous battles. Such horrible notions shock every prospect of religion, divine or natural, and every generous feeling of humanity. And, my Lords, they shock every sentiment of honor ; they shock me as a lover of honorable war and a
עמוד 525 - Venerable men ! you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this joyous day.
עמוד 432 - I may challenge the whole orations of Demosthenes and Cicero, and of any more eminent orator, if Europe has furnished more eminent, to produce a single passage superior to the speech of Logan.
עמוד 457 - When we contemplate our abhorrence of the condition to which the arms and tyranny of Great Britain were exerted to reduce us,—when we look back on the variety of dangers to which we have been exposed, and how miraculously our wants, in many instances, have been
עמוד 421 - of religion, divine or natural, and every generous feeling of humanity. And, my Lords, they shock every sentiment of honor ; they shock me as a lover of honorable war and a détester of murderous barbarity.
עמוד 574 - They are all chosen men," said he, " selected from the army at large, and well acquainted with the use of rifles, and with that mode of fighting. I expect the most eminent services from them, and I shall be mistaken, if their presence does not go far toward producing