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... shaped mouths belched forth their terrifying thunder , two Mohawk chiefs fell dead and a third was wounded . Little did Champlain , the romantic French ex- plorer , know that his rashness would profoundly affect the Red Jacket ...
... shaped mouths belched forth their terrifying thunder , two Mohawk chiefs fell dead and a third was wounded . Little did Champlain , the romantic French ex- plorer , know that his rashness would profoundly affect the Red Jacket ...
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... chiefs gained for the French the deep enmity of the con- federacy . While the Iroquois nation did not , on the coming of the white men , exceed twelve thou- sand souls , for a century and a half they held the arms of the French at bay ...
... chiefs gained for the French the deep enmity of the con- federacy . While the Iroquois nation did not , on the coming of the white men , exceed twelve thou- sand souls , for a century and a half they held the arms of the French at bay ...
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... chief , charged Red Jacket with counselling the warriors to sue for an unfavorable peace . When the Seneca warrior Cornplanter determined to meet and fight General Sullivan's troops on the banks of Canan- daigua Lake , some of the ...
... chief , charged Red Jacket with counselling the warriors to sue for an unfavorable peace . When the Seneca warrior Cornplanter determined to meet and fight General Sullivan's troops on the banks of Canan- daigua Lake , some of the ...
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... Chiefs of the Iroquois confederacy was held at Fort Stanwix . The principal representatives of the Six Nations were Cornplanter and Red Jacket . The United States was represented by three Commis- sioners . By this treaty the Indians ...
... Chiefs of the Iroquois confederacy was held at Fort Stanwix . The principal representatives of the Six Nations were Cornplanter and Red Jacket . The United States was represented by three Commis- sioners . By this treaty the Indians ...
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... chief actor . In the year 1752 , in a little farm house situated about a mile from Monticello , Virginia , the home of Thomas Jefferson , George Rogers Clark was born . It is probable that in his youth for some months he and James ...
... chief actor . In the year 1752 , in a little farm house situated about a mile from Monticello , Virginia , the home of Thomas Jefferson , George Rogers Clark was born . It is probable that in his youth for some months he and James ...
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