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Title: Indian history for young folks
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Drake, Francis S. (Francis Samuel), 1828-1885 Dowd, Francis Joseph, 1876-
Subjects: Indians of North America Indians of North America -- Wars
Publisher: New York London : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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FKENCH AND INDIAN WARS. 185 fatigue, and hunger before reaching the place, that some of them after-wards declared that they would have surrendered had they encounteredserious opposition. A scout having ascertained that the town was in a profound slumberand without a guard, the spirits of the party were greatly raised. Thetown was left thus unguarded because the severity of the weather wassupposed to be a sufficient security. As if in derision of possible danger,two snow images, it is said, stood as mock sentinels at the gate.At midnight the assailants entered the open and undefendedgate, divided into parties of six or seven, waylaid the doors of each house,and then raised the terrible warwhoop. Feb. 8,1690.
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SCHENKCTADY. Massacre and pillage now held high carnival. Barbarities too shockingto relate were perpetrated. In two hours upward of eighty well-builtand well-furnished houses were burned, two only escaping the flames, andsixty persons were put to death. Forty of the inhabitants were carriedinto captivity. About sixty women, children, and old men were spared,out of regard for Glen, the chief magistrate, whose former kindness to ISfi INDIAN HISTORY FOR YOLNU FOLKS. French prisoners was now reciprocated. On their return to Montreal theparty was pursued, and a number killed or raptured. Intelligence of this shocking event was borne to Albany by some oftin- poor fugitives who, \virh no other covering than their night-clothes,and during a fall of sno\v. made their way to that place, some of thembadly frost-bitten. The second party, under Ilertel de Rouville, an experienced officer, at-tacked at daylight the village of Salmon Falls, on the Piscataqua. Herewas a fortified house, with two sto

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