 | John Brown Dillon - 1843 - 482 Seiten
...command of Colonel Trotter: on the 19th Colonel Hardin commanded in lieu of Colonel Trotter : attacked about one hundred Indians, fifteen miles west of the...militia, the troops were obliged to retreat. I lost one sargeant, and twenty-one out of thirty men of my command. The Indians on this occasion gained a complete... | |
 | 1845 - 288 Seiten
...fifteen miles west of the Miami village, and from the dastardly conduct of the militia, tie xroops were obliged to retreat — I lost one sergeant, and...occasion gained a complete victory, having killed in the whele, near one hundred men, which was about their own nffciber. Many of the militia threw away... | |
 | John Brown Dillon - 1859 - 692 Seiten
...command of Colonel Trotter. On the 19th, Colonel Hardin commanded in lieu of Colonel Trotter. Attacked about one hundred Indians fifteen miles west of the...occasion gained a complete victory — having killed, in the whole, near one hundred men, which was about their number. Many of the militia threw away their... | |
 | John Brown Dillon - 1879 - 822 Seiten
...Armstrong, in his journal, says: "On the 19th, Col. Hardin commanded in lieu of Col. Trotter. Attacked about one hundred Indians fifteen miles west of the...occasion, gained a complete victory — having killed, in the whole, near one hundred men, which was about their number. Many of the militia threw away their... | |
 | Arthur St. Clair, William Henry Smith - 1881 - 638 Seiten
...the militia fled without firing a shot. As usual, the regulars stood firm, and were cut to pieces. "I lost one sergeant and twenty-one out of thirty men of my command," says the brave Captain Armstrong in his report, and was obliged to retreat. We should think it was... | |
 | Archer Butler Hulbert - 1904 - 252 Seiten
...bloodiest ambuscades in western history. Armstrong's journal for the nineteenth reads : " Attacked about one hundred Indians fifteen miles west of the...occasion gained a complete victory — having killed, in the whole, near one hundred men, which was about their number. Many of the militia threw away their... | |
 | James H. O'Donnell - 2004 - 193 Seiten
...Armstrong, thirty of his regulars, and nine militia to hold off the assault. As Armstrong described it, "from the dastardly conduct of the militia, the troops were obliged to retreat. I lost one sergeant and 21 of the 30 men of my command. . . . Many of the militia threw away their arms without firing a shot,... | |
 | 1911 - 712 Seiten
...command of Colonel Trotter. On the I9th Colonel Hardin commanded in lieu of Colonel Trotter. Attacked about one hundred Indians, fifteen miles west of the...occasion gained a complete victory, having killed in the whole, near one hundred men, which was about their number. .Many of the militia threw away their... | |
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Hardin commanded in lieu of Colonel Trotter. Attacked about one hundred Indians fifteen miles west of the Miami village; and from the dastardly conduct of the militia, the troops were obliged to retreat. I lost one sergeant, and twenty-one out of thirty... 