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Title: Eminent Americans : comprising brief biographies of leading statesmen, patriots, orators and others, men and women who have made American history
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Lossing, Benson John, 1813-1891
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Publisher: New York : John B. Alden
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ct to be an intontional insult, and strewirg thesuaotash on the floor, exclaimed. Do you treat me with the food of hogs. (Japtain Alden hated thetyrant, and for this act he horsewhipped him. After Prescott was exchanged for General Charles_ Lee,and was again in command on Rhode Island, he treated a gentleman, who called upon him on business,with much discourtesy. He said in excuse, He looked so much like a cursed Connecticut man thathorsewhipped me, that I could not endure his presence. 1. It embraced the present States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin. 2. See sketch of David Jones. 3. The Shawnees and other tribes had committed marv depreciations on the Virginia frontier forseveral years, and in 1774, Lord Dunmore, then governor of that province, led quite a large force againstthem. A severe battle was fought at Point Pleasant, at the mouth of the great Kanawha ; and at Chil-Iicothe, Dunmore made a treaty of peace and friendship with them. GEORGE EOGERS CLARKE. 189
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gerous by the enemies of the colonists, who salhed forth from the British ))Ostsat Detroit, Kaskaskia, and Vincennes, with Indian ahies. Convinced of tlionecessity of possessing these posts, Clarke submitted the plan of an expeditionag-ainst them, to the Virginia legislature, and early in the Spring of 1778, he wasat the Falls of the Ohio (now Louisville), with four companies of soldiers. Therehe was joined by Simon Kenton, another bold pioneer. He marched throughthe wilderness toward those important posts, and at the close of Summer all butDetroit were in his possession. Clarke was now promoted to colonel, and was instructed to pacify the westerntribes, if possible, and bring them into friendly relations with the Americans.While thus engaged, he was informed of the re-capture of Vincennes. With hisusual energy, and followed by less than two hundred men, he traversed thedrowned lands of Illinois, through deep morasses and snow-floods, in February,.1779: and on the 19th of that month,

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