A history of the American people . BENJAMIN LINCOLN to their loyalty to the English, the English always totheir duty to the crown. Sir William had been deadthese three years; but his son, Sir John, still held 273 A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ancient allies to their fealty and stood at the front ofthose who would not accept the revolution wroughtat Boston and Williamsburg and Philadelphia. This. SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON war among the English sadly puzzled the red warriorsof the forest. War between the king of the Frenchand the king of the English they understood ; it was awar of hostil
A history of the American people . BENJAMIN LINCOLN to their loyalty to the English, the English always totheir duty to the crown. Sir William had been deadthese three years; but his son, Sir John, still held 273 A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ancient allies to their fealty and stood at the front ofthose who would not accept the revolution wroughtat Boston and Williamsburg and Philadelphia. This. SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON war among the English sadly puzzled the red warriorsof the forest. War between the king of the Frenchand the king of the English they understood ; it was awar of hostile peoples; but this war of the English-71 THE WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE against their chiefs? You are two brothers,- theysaid, of one blood. The Mohawks deemed it somesubtile treachery, as their great chief did, the redoubt-able Joseph Brant, himself trained with the Englishboys in Mr. Wheelocks school at Lebanon and taughtto see the whiteman close at hand;and the Cayugasand Senecas fol-lowed them in theirallegiance to themighty sachemwho lived over thegreat lake, theirfriend and allytime out of Onondagasheld off, Oneidas andTuscaroras, am< n tgwhom Mr. Kirk-land was mission-ary, aided the pa-triots when theycould, because hewished it, butwould not take the war-path. There were white loyalists, too, as well asred, .in thai far frontier. Sir John Johnson was theirleader. Their regim
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