Tennessee Historical Magazine, Том 3John Hibbert De Witt, Willian Alexander Provine, St. George Leakin Sloussat The Society, 1917 |
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Стр. 255 - ... received into the Indian towns, and kindly used until they recover, and then be allowed to return to Fort Prince George : That the Indians do provide for the garrison as many horses as they conveniently can for their march, agreeing with the officers and soldiers for payment : That the fort, great guns, powder, ball, and spare arms, be delivered to the Indians without fraud or further delay, on the day appointed for the march of the troops.
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Стр. 255 - ... all their attendants, upon one pretence or another, left them ; which the officers considered as no good sign, and therefore placed a strict guard round their camp. During the night they remained unmolested, but next morning about break of day a soldier from an out-post came running in, and informed them that he saw a vast number of Indians, armed, and painted in the most dreadful manner, creeping among the bushes, and advancing in order to surround them. Scarcely had the officer time to order...
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Стр. 88 - Now is the time to meet our Western friends at Memphis — to set the ball in motion which must bring the Valley to the South: and make them feel as allies of the Great Commercial and Agricultural interests— instead of the Tax gathering and Monopolizing interests of the North.
Стр. 231 - They and their constituents, they say, have cheerfully endured the almost unconquerable difficulties in settling the western country, in full confidence that they should be enabled to send their produce to market through the rivers which water the country ; but they now have the mortification, not only to be excluded from that channel of commerce by a foreign nation, but the Indians are rendered more hostile through the influence of that very nation, probably with a view to drive them from the country,...
Стр. 47 - Nashville is a recently founded place and contains only 2 houses, which, in true, merit that name; the rest are only huts that formerly served as a sort of fort against Indian attacks.
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