A Sketch of the Life of Com Robert F Stockton With An Appendix Comprising
A Sketch of the Life of Com Robert F Stockton With An Appendix Comprising
Bayard, Samuel J. (Samuel John), 1801-1878
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He became a convert to tho lessons taught by the experience of his hunters and trappers, and at once took steps to chastise the foe. Being detained by the sick man, he felt assured that they would be attacked the following 11 162 CHASTISES THE SAVAGES. night by an increased force ; he determined to have the first shot, and to inflict such a punishment on the enemy as would be remem bered by them. The Indians, he had observed, retreated across the river, and would have to recross it to renew the...ir attack. He discovered the ford at which they passed the river about half a mile from the camp. There he repaired just before the moon rose, and placed his men in the bushes, with directions not to fire without good aim and not until the Indians were crossing the ford. As soon as the moon showed herself over the hills, the stealthy pace of the Indians was heard along the shore. They stepped into the river in single file, and when about fifty of them were half-way over, the simultaneous crack of a score of rifles stopped their progress.
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