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Title: A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878 Gay, Sydney Howard, 1814-1888
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Publisher: New York : Scribner, Armstrong, and Company
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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principal village. A night march through theFebruary snows brought the little army of a hundred and fifty men tothe outskirts of the Indian town, which they had hoped to find unpre-pared for their approach, though the moonlight was so clear and strongthat many winters days were not brighter. But the savages werewarned, and stood upon their guard, nearly seven hundred strong, 1 R. T. Hist. Soc. Coll., vol. iii., p. 155. 1644.) APPEAL TO THE STATES GENERAL. 461 and having their rude fortifications to protect them. The Dutch lineadvanced steadily, unbroken by the arrows or attempted sorties ofthe Indians, and nearly two hundred of the besieged warriors fell inthe endeavor to drive it back. Underhill succeeded at last in firingthe village ; and the flame and the moonlight lit up a slaughter besidewhich the massacre at Pavonia seemed insignificant. Eight only ofthe savages escaped. The Dutch, with fifteen wounded, made theirway back to Stamford ; and a few days afterward a thanksgiving was
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March against the Indians in Connecticut- celebrated on their arrival at Manhattan, after a victory which effect-ually humbled the eastern tribes. It was only about Manhattan and on the river that many of thetribes continued hostile after this decisive blow ; and the Eight Mencounselled that vigorous measures should now be taken against thesenearer and more dangerous neighbors; more especially as the arrival ofa vessel from the Companys colony at Curacoa had supplied NewNetherland with a fresh force of one hundred and thirty soldiers, whomPeter Stuyvesant, the Curagoa governor, had sent away because he 462 PROGRESS OF DUTCH COLONIZATION. (Chap. XVII. had no use for them. It was an addition of mihtary strength to Man-hattan which it was sorely in need of, and warmly welcomed, thoughhow the soldiers were to be fed and clothed it was not easy to see. Thetreasury was empty : Kiefts last bill of exchange had come backfrom Amsterdam protested, for the Company was bankrupt. Hisonly resource

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