 | Israel Daniel Rupp - 1846 - 814 pages
...ordinary artifices of Indian warfare, but were steadily repulsed in every effort. At length finding their numbers daily thinned by the deliberate, but...garrison, and seeing no prospect of final success, Du Quesne raised the seige on the ninth day and returned home. Kenton did not accompany Colonel Boone... | |
 | Israel Daniel Rupp - 1848 - 782 pages
...ordinary artifices of Indian warfare, but were steadily repulsed in every effort. At length finding their numbers daily thinned by the deliberate, but...garrison, and seeing no prospect of final success, Dn Quesne raised the seige on the ninth day and returned home. Kenton did not accompany Colonel Boone... | |
 | Joseph Pritts - 1849 - 774 pages
...exhausted all the ordinary artifices of Indian warfare, but were steadily repulsed in every effort. Finding their numbers daily thinned by the deliberate but...the ninth day of the siege and returned home. The lo*s of the garrison was two killed and four wounded. On the part of the savages, thirty-seven were... | |
 | Joseph Pritts - 1849 - 742 pages
...success, they broke up on the ninth day of the siege and returned home. The lo*s of the garrison was two killed and four wounded. On the part of the savages,...were killed and many wounded, who, as usual, were carried off. This was the last siege sustained by Boonsborough. — The country had increased so rapidly... | |
 | 1850 - 608 pages
...exhausted all the ordinary artifices of Indian warfare, but were steadily repulsed in every effort. Finding their numbers daily thinned by the deliberate but...the part of the savages, thirty-seven were killed ami many wounded, who, as usual, were all carried off. This was the last siege sustained by Boonsborough.... | |
 | John Alexander McClung - 1852 - 344 pages
...exhausted all the ordinary artifices of Indian warfare, but were steadily repulsed in every effort. Finding their numbers daily thinned by the deliberate but...and many wounded, who, as usual, were all carried oflf. This was the last siege sustained by Boonesborough. The country had increased so rapidly in numbers,... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1855 - 908 pages
...exhausted all the ordinary artifices of Indian warfare, but wers steadily repulsed in every effort. Finding their numbers daily thinned by the deliberate but...fatal fire of the garrison, and seeing no prospect of (inal success, they broke up on the ninth day of the siege, and returned home. The loss of the garrison... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1856 - 462 pages
...all the ordinary artifices of Indian warfare, but were •teadily repulsed in every effort. Finding their numbers daily thinned by the deliberate but...two men killed and four wounded. On the part of the aavages, thirty-seven were killed and many wounded, who, as usual, were all Carried off. Late in the... | |
 | Henry Clay Watson - 1856 - 460 pages
...exhausted all the ordinary artifices of Indian warfare, but were steadily repulsed in every effort. Finding their numbers daily thinned by the deliberate but...and returned home. The loss of the garrison was two killed and four wounded. On the part of the savages, thirty-seven were killed and many wounded, who,... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1857 - 504 pages
...exhausted all the ordinary artifices of Indian warfare, but wers steadily repulsed in every effort. Finding their numbers daily thinned by the deliberate but...many wounded, who, as usual, were all carried off. Late in the fall succeeding, Gen. M'Intosh marched from the vicinity of Pittsburgh, with one thousand... | |
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... below. Boone, who had regained his usual sagacity, instantly cut a trench within the fort in such a manner as to intersect the line of their approach, and thus frustrated their design. The enemy exhausted all the ordinary artifices of Indian warfare,... 
