The story of our nation, from the earliest discoveries to the present time together with a graphic account of Porto Rico, Cuba, Hawaii and the Philippine islands (1902) (14778646721)

Identifier: storyofournation00stra (find matches)
Title: The story of our nation, from the earliest discoveries to the present time ... together with a graphic account of Porto Rico, Cuba, Hawaii and the Philippine islands ..
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Stratton, Ella (Hines), Mrs. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Philadelphia, National publishing co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation



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but kill me if the white people want it done. And did he ? demanded Bennie. No, answered Charlie. The soldiers shouted for his death butJackson said that any one who would kill so brave a man would rob thedead. Then he told the daring chief that if he wished to continue thewar he should go away unharmed, and if he wanted peace he should beprotected. Weatherford owned a fine farm in Alabama, where he diedin 1826. I will tell you a story about that time, cried Nettie. Weather-ford stormed Fort Minims, the strongest fort in the southwest and thatfrightened the smaller ones. Sinquefield was one of these, and the men,women and children were outside of the stockade when the attack wasmade. The men rushed into the fort to save it from falling into thehands of the Indians, who swept between the gates and the women andchildren, who had been for the time forgotten. With a yell of triumph the red men turned to murder them, but.at that moment, Isaac Hayden appeared with his famous pack of huntino
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PERRYS VICTORY ON LAKE ERIE. 2i!0 WASHINGTON AND THE FIRST CONGRESS. 221 hounds, sixty iu number. He saw the situation, spurred his horse forward,called to his hounds, and charged the Indians, who knew how to fightmen but not such savage dogs, and the women and children got into thefort. Haydens horse was shot but he managed to reach the fort also,with the remnant of his noble dogs. I will tell you another, nodded Hadley. Its about the smallestnaval battle in the world. Samuel Dale and others went out from FortMadison to gather some of the ripened corn, and were attacked byIndians when part of his men were on one side, and part on the otherside of a stream. THE RED MEN WERE SLAUGHTERED. u He was alone with about a dozen men, and the others could nothelp, as only one canoe was on that side. Suddenly a large canoe, con-taining a dozen painted savages, swept around the bend—somethingmust be done ! Dale and two other men leaped into the little canoewhich was managed by a negro, and the