Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam: In Guiana on the Wild Coast of South America, from the Years 1772 to 1777 ...University of Massachusetts Press, 1972 - 480 pages |
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... John Gabriel Stedman. ceived . Very soon , however , a conflict arose between the governor of the colony , Jean Nepveu , and Colonel Fourgeoud . The society troops in the country were under the command of the governor with a field command ...
... John Gabriel Stedman. ceived . Very soon , however , a conflict arose between the governor of the colony , Jean Nepveu , and Colonel Fourgeoud . The society troops in the country were under the command of the governor with a field command ...
Page 175
... Colonel Fourgeoud at Wana Creek arriv the Hope on the 11th , with September , the negro prisoner , who related tha rebels had spoken to Fourgeoud , and even laughed at him , having heard him giving his orders , viz . not to fire on them ...
... Colonel Fourgeoud at Wana Creek arriv the Hope on the 11th , with September , the negro prisoner , who related tha rebels had spoken to Fourgeoud , and even laughed at him , having heard him giving his orders , viz . not to fire on them ...
Page 291
... Colonel Fourgeoud's first campaign at the Wana . In the beginning of September , the bloody flux raged in the camp to such a degree , that the colonel saw himself obliged to send off all the sick officers and privates , without ...
... Colonel Fourgeoud's first campaign at the Wana . In the beginning of September , the bloody flux raged in the camp to such a degree , that the colonel saw himself obliged to send off all the sick officers and privates , without ...
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