. Collections - State Historical Society of Wisconsin . 1780] British Regime in Wisconsin nine hundred savages which left not the least doubt that thisnation, having forgotten how to make war according to the sys-tem practiced in Europe, does not desire to be false in Americato the title with which an author of ability has characterized Don Fernando de Leyba of the infantry regiment ofLnisiana was commandant at the post of San Luis de Yli-noises;^° and having received information that a body of onethousand two hundred men, composed partly of savages andpartly of troops, was beiug dr
. Collections - State Historical Society of Wisconsin . 1780] British Regime in Wisconsin nine hundred savages which left not the least doubt that thisnation, having forgotten how to make war according to the sys-tem practiced in Europe, does not desire to be false in Americato the title with which an author of ability has characterized Don Fernando de Leyba of the infantry regiment ofLnisiana was commandant at the post of San Luis de Yli-noises;^° and having received information that a body of onethousand two hundred men, composed partly of savages andpartly of troops, was beiug drawn up for an attack upon thetown under the orders of Captain Esse, he fortified it as wellas its open situation permitted. He built at the expense of theinhabitants a wooden tower at one of the ends of the town, over-looking it, and placed tlierein five cannon. In addition to thesehe had souie cannon with which he defended the two intrench-ments that he threw up at the other two extreme points. Thesewere manned by twenty-nine veteran soldiers and tw
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