Discovery and Conquests of the North-west, with the History of Chicago, Part 1 |
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... taken of the country . Fifteen Frenchmen were present , among whom were Alouez and Joliet . A large wooden cross was consecrated , and elevated like a liberty pole of modern days . This done , around it knelt the priests , who sang ...
... taken of the country . Fifteen Frenchmen were present , among whom were Alouez and Joliet . A large wooden cross was consecrated , and elevated like a liberty pole of modern days . This done , around it knelt the priests , who sang ...
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... taken on the spot . All shared alike in creature comforts , but yet an aristocracy existed among them quite as marked as can be found at the same place now . It was not based on wealth , for they had nothing which could represent it ...
... taken on the spot . All shared alike in creature comforts , but yet an aristocracy existed among them quite as marked as can be found at the same place now . It was not based on wealth , for they had nothing which could represent it ...
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... taken from them , as soon as the surgeon started to come here . As they had come twenty leagues , to pay them for their trouble and what they brought me , I gave them an axe , two knives , three clasp knives , ten fathoms of wampum ...
... taken from them , as soon as the surgeon started to come here . As they had come twenty leagues , to pay them for their trouble and what they brought me , I gave them an axe , two knives , three clasp knives , ten fathoms of wampum ...
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... taken their corn , and paid them its value in goods . His next business was to get leave to build a fort and also a vessel for the navigation of the Mississippi . This liberty was easily obtained from the flexible Illinois tribes ...
... taken their corn , and paid them its value in goods . His next business was to get leave to build a fort and also a vessel for the navigation of the Mississippi . This liberty was easily obtained from the flexible Illinois tribes ...
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... taken at once . A strong league of all the western tribes must be formed , for defensive purposes , against the Iroquois , before he dared to push his explorations down the Mississippi ; and , indeed , it was all - important that the ...
... taken at once . A strong league of all the western tribes must be formed , for defensive purposes , against the Iroquois , before he dared to push his explorations down the Mississippi ; and , indeed , it was all - important that the ...
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Page 149 - Cresap, the last spring, in cold blood, and unprovoked, murdered all the relations of Logan, not even sparing my women and children. 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. Logan never felt fear. He will not turn on his heel to save his life. Who is there to...
Page 175 - September last, shall be disposed of for the common benefit of the United States and be settled and formed into distinct republican States, which shall become members of the Federal Union and have the same rights of sovereignty, freedom and independence as the other States...
Page 208 - Lawrence ; thence westerly to a fork of that branch of the great Miami river running into the Ohio, at or near which fork stood Loromie's store, and where commences the portage between the Miami of the Ohio, and St. Mary's river, which is a branch of the Miami, which runs into Lake Erie; thence a westerly course to Fort Recovery...
Page 104 - Englishman, our father, the king of France, employed our young men to make war upon your nation. In this warfare, many of them have been killed; and it is our custom to retaliate, until such time as the spirits of the slain are satisfied.
Page 94 - The paths of glory lead but to the grave " — must have seemed at such a moment fraught with mournful meaning. At the close of the recitation Wolfe added, "Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec.
Page 194 - Money to us is of no value; and to most of us unknown; and, as no consideration whatever can induce us to sell the lands on which we get sustenance for our women and children, we hope we may be allowed to point out a mode by which your settlers may be easily removed, and peace thereby obtained.
Page 23 - We are made a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men.
Page 175 - September last ; that is to say, upon condition that the territory so ceded shall be laid out and formed Into states, containing a suitable extent of territory, not less than one hundred nor more than one hundred and fifty miles square...
Page 149 - 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 the white men.
Page 105 - France; but for you we have taken into consideration that you have ventured your life among us in the expectation that we should not molest you. You do not come armed with an intention to make war; you come in peace to trade with us and supply us with necessaries of which we are in much want.