A History of the Mississippi Valley, From Its Discovery to the End of Foreign Domination
The book A History of the Mississippi Valley, From Its Discovery to the End of Foreign Domination was written by author Spears, John Randolph, 1850- [from Old Catalog] Here you can read free online of A History of the Mississippi Valley, From Its Discovery to the End of Foreign Domination book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is A History of the Mississippi Valley, From Its Discovery to the End of Foreign Domination a good or bad book?
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The French officers, in their reports on aggressions very often used the term "disgust the English." What they meant to say was that they believed the raids would intimidate the Colonists — fill them with the sense of inferiority to the French. During the years 1756 and 1757, (called by Win- sor the two dismal years), and in a part of 1758, the state of affairs seemed to justify the French hope. To keep back the Indians the Governor of Virginia built a fort, (1756), on the Holston river about t...hirty miles above the present site of Knoxville. Colonel Bird built another in the same county in 1758. Both were well garrisoned and mounted cannon, but both were whelmed by Indians and the garrisons forced by heavy losses to leave. A line of forts was built along the frontier. At the demand of the backwoodsmen, and in 150 Mississippi Valley. spite of Quaker protests, a reward of 136 Spanish dol- lars was offered for every scalp of a male Indian, over twelve years of age, and fifty dollars for a squaw scalp.
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