Three Political Letters Addressed to Dr Wolfred Nelson Late of Lower Canada
Three Political Letters Addressed to Dr Wolfred Nelson Late of Lower Canada
Thomas Jefferson From Old Catalog Sutherland
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T):e whole conduct of General Harrison on that occasion, so unfortunate to our fellow-citizens who served under his command, was hi(-!ily censurable. Any one who will take the trouble to examiife the account published by himself, wilt find nothing to commend— hut every thing to condemn. The forces of G. -neral Harrison, amounted to very little ab-'ve eight hundred non-com- missioned (>lficers and privates. Th<- Prophet's forces, he thinks to have been but a trifle inferior to his own. He is ^^ ...convinced they were at least six hundred. '' The Indians had observed all his prwioi. S movements, and when they saw him ensconced m camp on the extr-miity of the table of land, just where they desi- red him, surrounded by marshy prairies and bushes close up to his lines, within which, (as they found, upon reconnoitenng, ) the whole of his forces were drawn, quiet and sleeping, with not a man outside of the lines of his camp to observe their movements— they, no doubt, thought his people an easy prey— they then looked upon General H irrison and his men, as they did upon the animals that blindly run in^o their snares— and trusting in the weaknese as well as tlie unwaryness of the Americans, and the advanta- ges which a surprise would afford them, and being emboldened by the near equality of their numbers, they resolved to make the attack, whi.
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