The History and Antiquities of New England, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania: Embracing the Following Subjects, Viz., Discoveries and Settlements - Indian History - Indian, French and Revolutionary Wars -religious History - Biographical Sketches - Anecdotes, Traditions, Remarkable and Unaccountable Occurrences - with a Great Variety of Curious and Interesting Relics of Antiquity |
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Page 211
... rear , who formerly kept the van , ( being pressed with great fear ; ) we continued our march till about one hour in the night and coming to a little swamp between two hills , we pitched our little camp ; much wearied with hard travel ...
... rear , who formerly kept the van , ( being pressed with great fear ; ) we continued our march till about one hour in the night and coming to a little swamp between two hills , we pitched our little camp ; much wearied with hard travel ...
Page 212
... rear ; and commending ourselves to God , we divided our men , there being two entrances into the fort , intending to enter both at once - Captain Mason leading up to that on the north east side , who approached within one rod , heard a ...
... rear ; and commending ourselves to God , we divided our men , there being two entrances into the fort , intending to enter both at once - Captain Mason leading up to that on the north east side , who approached within one rod , heard a ...
Page 214
... rear faced about , giving fire upon them : some of them being shot , made the rest more wary ; yet they held on running to and fro , and shooting their arrows at random . There was at the foot of the hill a small brook , where we rested ...
... rear faced about , giving fire upon them : some of them being shot , made the rest more wary ; yet they held on running to and fro , and shooting their arrows at random . There was at the foot of the hill a small brook , where we rested ...
Page 228
... rear , and so to have cut them all off , before the besieged understood any thing thereof . But it pleased God so to order things in provi- dence , that no notice was taken of them by the besiegers , nor were they at all discerned by ...
... rear , and so to have cut them all off , before the besieged understood any thing thereof . But it pleased God so to order things in provi- dence , that no notice was taken of them by the besiegers , nor were they at all discerned by ...
Page 233
... rear of Massachusetts forces : General Winslow with the Plymouth forces marched in the centre ; those of Connecticut came up in the rear of the whole body : But the frontiers discerning Indians in the edge of the swamp , fired ...
... rear of Massachusetts forces : General Winslow with the Plymouth forces marched in the centre ; those of Connecticut came up in the rear of the whole body : But the frontiers discerning Indians in the edge of the swamp , fired ...
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