 | William Ingraham Kip - Indians of North America - 1846 - 372 pages
...iu dancing. The Tchactas took them therefore by surprise, and made a descent on them on the 27th of January, at the break of day. In less than three hours...women with their children ; they made eighteen of the [* As late as 1750. Fa'her Vivier thus describes New Orleans, in a letter : "It is tolerably handsome,... | |
 | William Ingraham Kip - Indians of North America - 1846 - 372 pages
...in dancing. The Tchactas took them therefore by surprise, and made a descent on them on the 27th of January, at the break of day. In less than three hours...and carpenter, and one hundred and six negroes or uegro women with their children ; they made eighteen of the [* As late as 1750, Father Vivier thus... | |
 | William Ingraham Kip - Indians of North America - 1846 - 356 pages
...together do not seem to amount, as it appears to me, to more than a thousand or twelve hundred persons.") Natchez prisoners and took sixty scalps. They would have taken more, if they had not been intent on freeing the slaves, as they had been directed. They had but two men killed and seven or eight wounded.... | |
 | Albert James Pickett - Alabama - 1851 - 426 pages
...them, as some had done with the Natchez. Moreover, he could feel perfectly easy with regard to the 1730 conduct of the troops, as the Chevalier De Loubois,...the slaves, as they had been directed. They had but Januarys? '~ J * two men killed and seven or eight wounded. They encamped, with their prizes, at the... | |
 | Albert James Pickett - Alabama - 1851 - 440 pages
...the January ' . 173 ° conduct of the troops, as the Chevalier De Loubois, with January 27 o ' rf J whose experience and bravery he was well acquainted,...would have taken more, if they had not been intent on r 173 ° «T freeing the slaves, as they had been directed. They had but two men killed and seven or... | |
 | Albert James Pickett - Alabama - 1896 - 686 pages
...in dancing. The Choctaws took them, therefore, by surprise, and made a descent on them, the 27th of January, at the break of day. In less than three hours...eighteen of the Natchez prisoners, and took sixty scalps. 1730 They would have taken more, if they had not been inJan. 27 tent on freeing the slaves, as they... | |
 | Albert James Pickett - History - 2013 - 780 pages
...in dancing. The Cboctnws took them, therefore, by surprise, and made a descent on them, the 27th of January, at the break of day. In less than three hours...eighteen of the Natchez prisoners, and took sixty scalps. 1730 They would have taken more, if they hadi not been inJan. 27 tent on freeing the slaves, as they... | |
 | Barbara Olexer - History - 2005 - 260 pages
...in dancing. The Choctaws took them, therefore, by surprise, and made a descent on them, the 27th of January, at the break of day. In less than three hours,...fifty-nine persons, both women and children, with the [French] tailor and carpenter, and one hundred and six negroes or negro women, with their children.... | |
 | Jesuits - Canada - 1900 - 344 pages
...dancing. The Tchactas took them therefore by surprise, and made a descent on them on the 2 jib. of January, at the break of day. In less than three hours they had delivered 59 persons, both women and children, with the Tailor and Carpenter, and 106 Negroes or Negro women... | |
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January, at the break of day. In less than three hours they had delivered fifty-nine persons, both women and children, with the tailor and carpenter, and one hundred and six negroes or negro women, with their children. They made eighteen of the Natchez... 