. History of the counties of Dauphin and Lebanon : in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania ; biographical and genealogical . hisfort was located about fifty miles from the mouth ofthe river. The enemy embarked on Lake Ontario,according to the French account, and then went over-land to the Susquehanna. On reaching the fort,however, they found it well defended on the riverside, and on the land side with two bastions in Euro-pean style, with cannon mounted and connected by adouble curtain of large trees. After some triflingskirmishes the Iroquois had recourse to stratagem. 3 HISTORY OP DAUPHIN COUNTY
. History of the counties of Dauphin and Lebanon : in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania ; biographical and genealogical . hisfort was located about fifty miles from the mouth ofthe river. The enemy embarked on Lake Ontario,according to the French account, and then went over-land to the Susquehanna. On reaching the fort,however, they found it well defended on the riverside, and on the land side with two bastions in Euro-pean style, with cannon mounted and connected by adouble curtain of large trees. After some triflingskirmishes the Iroquois had recourse to stratagem. 3 HISTORY OP DAUPHIN COUNTY. They sent in a party of twenty-five men to treat ofpeace, and ask provisions to enable them to Susquehannas admitted them, but immediatelyburned them all alive before the eyes of their coun-trymen. The force of the Iroquois consisted of onethousand six hundred warriors, while that of theSusquehannas only one hundred. On the retreat ofthe Iroquois, the Susquehannas pursued them withconsiderable slaughter. After this the war was carried on in small parties,and Susquehanna prisoners were from time to time. STJSQTJ EHANNA INDIAN. burned at Oneida, Onondaga, Seneca, and the fall of 1669, the Susquehannas, after defeatingthe Cayugas, offered peace, but the Cayugas put theirambassador and his nephew to death, after retaininghim five or six months,—the Oneidas having takennine Susquehannas, and sent some to Cayuga, withforty wampum belts to maintain the war. At this time the great war chief of the Susquehan-nas was one styled Hochitagete, or Barefoot, andraving women and crafty medicine men deluded theIroquois with promises of his capture and execution at the stake, and a famous medicine man of Oneidaappeared after death to order his body to be taken upand interred on the trail leading to the Susquehan-nas, as the only means of saving that canton fromruin. Towards the summer of 1672 a body of fortyCayugas descended the Susquehanna in canoes, andtwenty Senecas w
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