History of Pittsburgh and Environs: From Prehistoric Days to the Beginning of the American Revolution, Volume 1American historical society, Incorporated, 1922 - Pennsylvania |
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... French soil , a large part of New France in America . The French were in control , and the fleur - de - lis , their beautiful emblem of sovereignty , flew triumphantly to the forest breezes not alone at Fort Du Quesne , at the Forks of ...
... French soil , a large part of New France in America . The French were in control , and the fleur - de - lis , their beautiful emblem of sovereignty , flew triumphantly to the forest breezes not alone at Fort Du Quesne , at the Forks of ...
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... French by which means the French became acquainted with all the causes of complaint they had against you and as your people were daily increasing their settlements , by this means you drove them back into the arms of the French and they ...
... French by which means the French became acquainted with all the causes of complaint they had against you and as your people were daily increasing their settlements , by this means you drove them back into the arms of the French and they ...
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... French less . The Delawares and Shawanese , driven to the debatable land on the Ohio , came within the French influence during the few years that influence was exerted , and the Shawanese at heart were ever the foes of the Americans ...
... French less . The Delawares and Shawanese , driven to the debatable land on the Ohio , came within the French influence during the few years that influence was exerted , and the Shawanese at heart were ever the foes of the Americans ...
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... French . We have some French accounts of the Eries . As early as 1615 they were visited by Etienne Brule , Champlain's interpreter ; at least the claim is made for him in French histories . The Jesuits , who generally worked among all ...
... French . We have some French accounts of the Eries . As early as 1615 they were visited by Etienne Brule , Champlain's interpreter ; at least the claim is made for him in French histories . The Jesuits , who generally worked among all ...
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... French checkmated this attempt and built their fort instead . Ward's fort was to have been a traders ' fort . With the destruction of the French fort , Duquesne , and the building of Fort Pitt by the English , a traders ' town of rude ...
... French checkmated this attempt and built their fort instead . Ward's fort was to have been a traders ' fort . With the destruction of the French fort , Duquesne , and the building of Fort Pitt by the English , a traders ' town of rude ...
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Page 555 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it : I have killed many : I have fully glutted my vengeance : for my country I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Page 144 - Rich tribute from the west, And Rappahannock sweetly sleeps On green Virginia's breast. Ye say their cone-like cabins, That clustered o'er the vale, Have fled away like withered leaves Before the autumn gale, But their memory liveth on your hills, Their baptism on your shore, Your everlasting rivers speak Their dialect of yore.
Page 121 - But how came you to take upon you to sell land at all? We conquered you, we made women of you; you know you are women, and can no more sell land than women.
Page 555 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat; if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, 'Logan is the friend of white men.
Page 246 - The cold was so extremely severe, that mr. Gist had all his fingers, and some of his toes frozen, and the water was shut up so hard, that we found no difficulty in getting off the island, on the ice, in the morning, and went to mr. Frazier's.
Page 410 - ... long as the Monongahela and the Alleghany shall flow to form the Ohio, long as the English tongue shall be the language of freedom in the boundless valley which their waters traverse, his name shall stand inscribed on the gateway of the west.
Page 378 - Whoever is in, or whoever is out, I am sure we are undone, both at home and abroad : at home by our increasing debt and expenses ; abroad by our ill-luck and incapacity. . . . We are no longer a nation. I never yet saw so dreadful a prospect.
Page 322 - ... and also a great many scalps. Those that were coming in, and those that had arrived, kept a constant firing of small arms, and also the great guns in the fort, which were accompanied with the most hideous shouts and yells from all quarters ; so that it appeared to me as if the infernal regions had broke loose.
Page 270 - Jumonville), he concluded with these words, — (I heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound.' On hearing of this the King said sensibly, — 'He would not say so, if he had been used to hear many.