Download or read book Journal of the Expedition Down the River Ohio Under the Command of His Excellency John Earl of Dunmore Lieutenant and Governor General of His Majesty s Colony and Dominion of Virginia written by John Murray Earl of Dunmore and published by . This book was released on 1774 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consists of a manuscript journal documenting the expedition of John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore (1732-1809), then the British royal governor of the Colony of Virginia, to the Ohio Valley against a Shawnee-led coalition of American Indian nations, including the Mingo, in order to extend the western border of the colony. This record of Lord Dunmore's War, presumably kept by one of the governor's aids, details the period from September 10th to November 18th, 1774. The journal includes entries describing military maneuvers, including a fold-out chart illustrating the line of march of Dunmore's force, as well as the proceedings of meetings and exchanges of prisoners between colonial and indigenous leaders. The journal provides an in-depth look into Dunmore's perspective on his militia's campaigns against the Shawnee and Mingo, including the Battle of Point Pleasant, negotiations surrounding the Treaty of Camp Charlotte, and other events. The journal opens with Dunmore's arrival at Fort Pitt (renamed Fort Dunmore in the governor's honor) on September 10th, 1774, and records his proclamation offering a reward of fifty pounds to anyone with information on the murder of several allied men of the Delaware nation. Dunmore's force departed Fort Pitt on September 26th, intending to rendezvous at the mouth of the Great Kanawha River with another force under the command of Colonel Andrew Lewis (1720-1781) who was marching from western Virginia toward the Ohio River. On October 10th, Lewis was surprised by a large Shawnee force under Chief Cornstalk at Point Pleasant on the Ohio. Although Lewis's force emerged the victors after a four-hour battle, they suffered 75 killed and 140 wounded out of a total of 1,100 men. Dunmore, who was marching his force up the Hocking River toward the Shawnee towns in the interior learned of the battle on the 16th: "About midnight an Express which followed our Track, came up, bringing intelligence from Colonel Lewis of an Engagement he had with the Shawanese and their Confederates, at the Mouth of the great Kanhawa, and that the Enemy had been defeated with a considerable loss." The news redoubled Dunmore's determination to "pursue the necessary Steps to chastise" those he characterized as "a Stubborn and Perfidious People." An entry from October 20th describes "the important day, in which we were either to march into our Enemy's Towns, or meet with a Repulse, just as the Advance-guard was forming to march, arrived a certain Matthew Elliot, and Indian Trader, whom they had sent as a Messenger... This messenger desired his Excellency to halt and not enter the Towns, and that they would wait upon him and comply with such demands as he might think proper for restoring the Peace of the country." The army moved to a good campsite, and "his Lordship gave the name of Camp Charlotte to this Place." On the 21st, a delegation arrived at Camp Charlotte, "where there were some Bearskins spread, on one of which his Lordship seated himself, and the Conference opened with a speech from the Corn-Stalk their Chief." The journal records the communications between Cornstalk and Dunmore in full. Following an exchange of prisoners including "one Sally Kelly, who had been taken from the great Kanhawa," the conference resumed with Dunmore's lengthy address to the Shawnee consuming nearly two pages. At the time the conference was in session, Colonel Lewis's force had finally approached Dunmore's, and the appearance of another army frightened the Shawnee and nearly scuttled the negotiations. Dunmore finally made contact with Lewis and the colonel ceased his advance. The entry from the 26th describes how, during the negotiations at Camp Charlotte, Major William Crawford (1722-1782) "with a detachment of 250 men, with an expert guide, was this night secretly ordered off to fall upon a Town of Mingoes at a place called the Salt Licks, as his Lordship had received undoubted intelligence that these people intended moving off with their Prisoners and Effects without coming to Terms." On the 29th, a peace treaty was finally concluded with lengthy addresses by "Nimoi a Shawanese Chief, with two Hostages, several white and some negroe Prisoners..." The lengthy address was concluded with "A Large String of Wampum" and answered by "Captain White-eyes the Delaware-Chief, addressing both Parties." The following day, Dunmore's forces departed for home. The final two pages of the journal have been crossed out, and it appears this account may have been prepared from an earlier version kept in the field. The final crossed out entry on November 18th reflects on the success of the militia model, as well as on the Yellow Creek Massacre, which Dunmore describes as: "This Act unworthy as it may be, has been a principal Cause why Justice has been done to many innocent sufferers: why pining Captives have been restored to liberty; and why a haughty, restless, and imperious enemy have been reduced to a Sense of their insignificancy."
Download or read book Journal Sent by the Hon Robert Dinwiddie Esq His Majesty s Lieutenant Governor and Commander in Chief of Virginia to the Commandant of the French Forces on Ohio to Which Are Added the Governor s Letter and a Translation of the French Officer s Answer written by George Washington and published by . This book was released on 1754 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Journal of Nicholas Cresswell written by Nicholas Cresswell and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicholas Cresswell was twenty-four years old when he left his birthplace of Edale, England to sail for Virginia, believing that ""a person with a small fortune may live much better and make greater improvements in America than he can possibly do in England."" From the time he left, sailing from Liverpool in 1774, until the time he returned, he kept a diary detailing his experiences in pre-Revolutionary America. As a loyal subject to King George, Cresswell found himself often unhappy in America, detailing the turmoil and abuses often suffered by Loyalists in the colonies. Confining his travel mainly to the mid-Atlantic region, Cresswell not only had occasion to attend a slave gathering and observe what went on there, but also traded amongst many of the native tribes, including the Lenape, Tuscarora, Ottawa and Shawnee. Despite his ambivalence about returning to England, (toward the end of the book he moans, ""I wish to be at home and yet dread the thought of returning to my native Country a Beggar "" (P. 251)), life in the colonies becomes too much for this loyal subject and Cresswell's journal ends in 1777 with his return to England.
Download or read book The Life of George Washington written by John Marshall and published by . This book was released on 1805 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book No Useless Mouth written by Rachel B. Herrmann and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rachel B. Herrmann's No Useless Mouth is truly a breath of fresh air in the way it aligns food and hunger as the focal point of a new lens to reexamine the American Revolution. Her careful scrutiny, inclusive approach, and broad synthesis―all based on extensive archival research―produced a monograph simultaneously rich, audacious, insightful, lively, and provocative."―The Journal of American History In the era of the American Revolution, the rituals of diplomacy between the British, Patriots, and Native Americans featured gifts of food, ceremonial feasts, and a shared experience of hunger. When diplomacy failed, Native Americans could destroy food stores and cut off supply chains in order to assert authority. Black colonists also stole and destroyed food to ward off hunger and carve out tenuous spaces of freedom. Hunger was a means of power and a weapon of war. In No Useless Mouth, Rachel B. Herrmann argues that Native Americans and formerly enslaved black colonists ultimately lost the battle against hunger and the larger struggle for power because white British and United States officials curtailed the abilities of men and women to fight hunger on their own terms. By describing three interrelated behaviors—food diplomacy, victual imperialism, and victual warfare—the book shows that, during this tumultuous period, hunger prevention efforts offered strategies to claim power, maintain communities, and keep rival societies at bay. Herrmann shows how Native Americans, free blacks, and enslaved peoples were "useful mouths"—not mere supplicants for food, without rights or power—who used hunger for cooperation and violence, and took steps to circumvent starvation. Her wide-ranging research on black Loyalists, Iroquois, Cherokee, Creek, and Western Confederacy Indians demonstrates that hunger creation and prevention were tools of diplomacy and warfare available to all people involved in the American Revolution. Placing hunger at the center of these struggles foregrounds the contingency and plurality of power in the British Atlantic during the Revolutionary Era. Thanks to generous funding from Cardiff University, the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other repositories.
Download or read book American Prisoners of the Revolution written by Danske Dandridge and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1911 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.
Download or read book 1777 written by John S. Pancake and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 1977-06-30 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A revisionist view of the Revolution's most crucial year... it explodes many of the myths surrounding Burgoyne's Canadian expedition and Howe's Pennsylvania campaign. There is a wealth of fascinating detail in this book, including information on arms and supplies, rations for women camp followers, and even the numbers of carts (30-odd) carrying Burgoyne's luggage." --History Book Club Newsletter
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Download or read book Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin written by State Historical Society of Wisconsin and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After 1855 the society's annual reports were included in its Proceedings.
