 | George Bancroft - 1852 - 490 pagini
...Shawnees, Wyandots, and Mingoes closely beset and attacked the fort. With incredible boldness they took post under the banks of both rivers, close to the fort, where, digging holes, they kept up an incessant discharge of musketry and threw fire arrows. They were good marksmen, and, though the... | |
 | GEORGE BANCROFT - 1856 - 472 pagini
...Shawnees, "Wyandots, and Mingoes closely "beset and attacked the fort. "With incredible boldness they took post under the banks of both rivers, close to the fort, where, digging holes, they kept up an incessant discharge of musketry and threw fire arrows. They were good marksmen, and, though the... | |
 | GEORGE BANCROFT - 1857 - 482 pagini
...Shawnees, Wyandots, and Mingoes closely beset and attacked the fort. With incredible boldness they took post under the banks of both rivers, close to the fort, where, digging holes, they kept up an incessant discharge of musketry and threw fire arrows. They were good marksmen, and, though the... | |
 | Francis Parkman - 1868 - 668 pagini
...Attacked this Fort from the 27th CHAP. XVIH.] ATTACK ON FORT PITT. 343 July, to the First Instant, when they Quitted it to March against us. " The Boldness...though our People were under Cover, they Killed one, & Wounded seven. — Captain Ecuyer is Wounded in the Leg by an Arrow. — I Would not Do Justice to... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1876 - 614 pagini
...Delawares, Shawnees, Wyandots, and Mingoes beset and attacked the fort. With incredible boldness, they took post under the banks of both rivers, close to the fort, where, digging holes, they kept up an incessant discharge of musketry and threw fire arrows. Though the English were under cover, they... | |
 | Francis Parkman - 1880 - 408 pagini
...Wiandots, & Mingoes had closely Beset, and Attacked this Fort from the 27th July, to the First Instant, when they Quitted it to March against us. " The Boldness...Marksmen, and though our People were under Cover, they Killeil one, & Wounded seven. — Captain Ecuyer is Wounded in the Leg by an Arrow. — I Would not... | |
 | Francis Parkman - 1885 - 404 pagini
...Wiandots, & Mingoes had closely Beset, and Attacked this Fort from the 27th July, to the First Instant, when they Quitted it to March against us. " The Boldness...though our People were under Cover, they Killed one, & Wounded seven. — Captain Ecuyer is Wounded in the Leg by an Arrow. — I Would not Do Justice to... | |
 | Francis Parkman - 1894 - 412 pagini
...Wiamlots, & Mingoes had closely Beset, and Attacked this Fort from the 27th July, to the First Instant, when they Quitted it to March against us. " The Boldness...Credible ; they had taken Post under the Banks of Both Kivers, Close to the Fort, where Dipping Holes, they kept an Incessant Fire, and threw Fire Arrows... | |
 | Francis Parkman - 1898 - 318 pagini
...Wiandots, & Mingoes had closely Beset, and Attacked this Fort from the 27th July, to the First Instant, when they Quitted it to March against us. "The Boldness...though our People were under Cover, they Killed one, & Wounded seven. — Captain Ecuyer is Wounded in the Leg by an Arrow. — I Would not Do Justice to... | |
 | Francis Parkman - 1898 - 526 pagini
...Wiandots, & Mingoes had closely Beset, and Attacked this Fort from the 27th July, to the First Instant, when they Quitted it to March against us. "The Boldness...Arrows: They are good Marksmen, and though our People under Cover, they Killed one, & Wounded seven. — Captain Ecuver is Wounded in the Leg by an Arrow.... | |
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Mingoes had closely Beset, and Attacked this Fort from the 27th July, to the First Instant, when they Quitted it to March against us. " The Boldness of those Savages is hardly Credible ; they had taken Post under the Banks of Both Rivers, Close to the... 
