The Winning of the West, Volume 2 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 472 pages of information about The Winning of the West, Volume 2.

The Winning of the West, Volume 2 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 472 pages of information about The Winning of the West, Volume 2.
    his rashness;
    his open letter;
    appalled by the storm he had raisen;
    holds councils with Delawares and Iroquois;
    defied by the Shawnees;
  Cornstalk, a Shawnee chief, I;
    first heard of in Pontiac’s war;
    opposed to the war with the whites;
    his strategy;
    advances to attack Lewis;
    crossing the Ohio;
    fails to surprise Lewis’ army;
    displays the only generalship at the battle of the Great Kanawha;
    bids defiance to his foes;
    sues for peace;
    his eloquence;
    his grand death
  Cornwallis, Lord, in command at the South, II;
    marches through the up-country;
    retreats from North Carolina;
  Crab Orchard, regarded with affection by travellers, I;
  Crawford, Col.  William, a fairly good officer, II;
    marches against Sandusky;
    routed;
    captured;
    tortured;
    a valued friend of Washington
  Creeks, the, made up of many bands, I;
    strongest of the Appalachian tribes;
    their numbers;
    location;
    semi-civilization of;
    their cattle and slaves;
    agriculture;
    mode of life;
    towns;
    houses;
    council-house;
    dress and adornments;
    red and white towns of;
    feasts and dances;
    looseness of the Creek Confederacy;
    the Chief McGillivray;
    their hostility to the whites;
    scalps, their ideal of glory;
    observe a kind of nominal neutrality;
    incited by the British to war;
    their reply to the Cherokees;
    ravage the Georgia frontier;
  Creoles, the, of Kaskaskia, II;
    panic among, at the loss of Vincennes;
    French abandon the Illinois country;
    unfit for self-government;
  Cresap, a type of the pioneer, I;
    with his band at Wheeling;
    attacks friendly Shawnees;
    continues hostilities;
    accused of the murder of Logan’s kinsfolk;
    deposed from his command;
    restored by Lord Dunmore;
    a scout with Lord Dunmore;
    dies a revolutionary soldier;
  Cruger, Lieut.-Col.;
    commands at Ninety-six, II;
    letter to Ferguson;
  Cumberland Gap;
    origin of name, I., note;
    traversed by Floyd;
  Cumberland River;
    origin of name, I., note;
    Boon driven back to the valley of the;
  Cumberland Settlement, the;
    started at the bend of the Cumberland River, II;
    founded by Robertson;
    abundance of game;
    formation of a government;
    Indian hostilities;
    attack on Freeland’s Station;
    Nashborough attacked by Indians;
    Indian hostilities;
    internal government;
    affairs with outside powers;
    establishment of county government;
  Debatable Land, the, I;
    formed by the hunting-grounds between the Ohio and the Tennessee;
  Delawares, the, location of, I;
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