A History of the Valley of VirginiaHeritage Books, 2009 - 416 страници If you'd like to know more about the history of Native Americans and early American settlers, this book is for you. Written not long after the Revolutionary War, the author was himself a young eyewitness to the life and times described, and the weight of |
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... battle , where diverse years before Tata- patamoi her husband had led a hundred of his Indians in help in th ' English against her former enemy Indians , and was there slaine with most of his men ; for which no compensation [ at all ] ...
... battle , where diverse years before Tata- patamoi her husband had led a hundred of his Indians in help in th ' English against her former enemy Indians , and was there slaine with most of his men ; for which no compensation [ at all ] ...
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... battles fought on the Cohongoruton . * At the mouth of the Antietam , a small creek on the Maryland side of the river , a most bloody affair took place between parties of the Catawba and Delaware tribes . This was probably about the ...
... battles fought on the Cohongoruton . * At the mouth of the Antietam , a small creek on the Maryland side of the river , a most bloody affair took place between parties of the Catawba and Delaware tribes . This was probably about the ...
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... battle This was a was over , and every Catawba held up a scalp but one . disgrace not to be borne ; and he instantly gave chase to the fugitive , overtook him at the Susquehanna river , ( a distance little short of one hundred miles ) ...
... battle This was a was over , and every Catawba held up a scalp but one . disgrace not to be borne ; and he instantly gave chase to the fugitive , overtook him at the Susquehanna river , ( a distance little short of one hundred miles ) ...
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... battle having been fought at the forks of the Wappatomaka ; but of this battle , if it ever occurred , the author could obtain no traditional account . Tradition also relates that the Southern Indians exterminated a tribe , called the ...
... battle having been fought at the forks of the Wappatomaka ; but of this battle , if it ever occurred , the author could obtain no traditional account . Tradition also relates that the Southern Indians exterminated a tribe , called the ...
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... battles contains all the traditionary information the author has been able to collect , with one exception , which will ... battle fought at the mouth of the Opequon . The author has seen and conversed with several aged and re- spectable ...
... battles contains all the traditionary information the author has been able to collect , with one exception , which will ... battle fought at the mouth of the Opequon . The author has seen and conversed with several aged and re- spectable ...
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