A Complete History of Illinois from 1673 to 1873: Embracing the Physical Features of the Country; Its Early Explorations; Aboriginal Inhabitants; French and British Occupation; Conquest by Virginia; Territorial Condition, and the Subsequent Civil, Military and Political Events of the StateIllinois journal Company, 1874 - 944 pages |
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... took refuge on the high rock which had been the site of Fort St. Louis . There they were besieged by a superior force of the Pottawatamies , whom the great strength of this natural fortress enabled them easily to keep at bay . Hunger ...
... took refuge on the high rock which had been the site of Fort St. Louis . There they were besieged by a superior force of the Pottawatamies , whom the great strength of this natural fortress enabled them easily to keep at bay . Hunger ...
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... took occasion to show their resentment by deriding the utterances of the missionary . By the exercise of great pa- tience , however , he at length obtained a hearing , and succeeded so well in impressing their minds with his religious ...
... took occasion to show their resentment by deriding the utterances of the missionary . By the exercise of great pa- tience , however , he at length obtained a hearing , and succeeded so well in impressing their minds with his religious ...
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... took refuge in the Carolinas and Florida . True to their native instincts , in their new location they soon came to blows with the owners of the soil , and about the year 1730 removed to the Sciota , in the present State of Ohio . About ...
... took refuge in the Carolinas and Florida . True to their native instincts , in their new location they soon came to blows with the owners of the soil , and about the year 1730 removed to the Sciota , in the present State of Ohio . About ...
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... took a position between a herd and a cliff of the river , while his compan- ions , on the the rear and each side , put the animals in motion , following the decoy , who , on reaching the precipice , disappeared in a previously selected ...
... took a position between a herd and a cliff of the river , while his compan- ions , on the the rear and each side , put the animals in motion , following the decoy , who , on reaching the precipice , disappeared in a previously selected ...
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... took them . " Black Hawk's speech to Col. Eustice , in charge of Fortress Mon- roe , when he and his fellow prisoners were set at liberty , is not only eloquent , but shows that within his chest of steel there beat a heart keenly alive ...
... took them . " Black Hawk's speech to Col. Eustice , in charge of Fortress Mon- roe , when he and his fellow prisoners were set at liberty , is not only eloquent , but shows that within his chest of steel there beat a heart keenly alive ...
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Page 523 - House dissenting) had declared that " by the act of the Republic of Mexico a state of war exists between that Government and the United States...
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