. The winning of the West; an account of the exploration and settlement of our country from the Alleghanies to the Pacific. n; for the Americans showedthemselves much superior, both in markmanshipand in the art of sheltering themselves, to theBritish regulars and French Canadians againstwhom they were pitted. Early in the forenoon Clark summoned thefort to surrender, and while waiting for the returnof the flag his men took the opportunity of getting Americans is true, they must have wasted any amount ofammunition perfectly uselessly. Unfortunately, most of thesmall western historians who have
. The winning of the West; an account of the exploration and settlement of our country from the Alleghanies to the Pacific. n; for the Americans showedthemselves much superior, both in markmanshipand in the art of sheltering themselves, to theBritish regulars and French Canadians againstwhom they were pitted. Early in the forenoon Clark summoned thefort to surrender, and while waiting for the returnof the flag his men took the opportunity of getting Americans is true, they must have wasted any amount ofammunition perfectly uselessly. Unfortunately, most of thesmall western historians who have written about Clark havereally damaged his reputation by the absurd inflation of theirlanguage. They were adepts in the forcible-feeble style ofwriting, a sample of which is their rendering him ludicrous bycalling him the Hannibal of the West and the Washing-ton of the West. Moreover, they base his claims to great-ness, not on his really great deeds, but on the half-imaginaryfeats of childish cunning he related in his old age.^ Clarks letter to Henry. Clarks Attack at Vincennes. .?-3tt«^3«i>j U) s^^^iiUK IsHtoiCi. Clarks Campaign against Vincennes 231 breakfast, the first regular meal they had had forsix days. Hamilton declined to surrender, butproposed a three-days truce instead. This prop-osition Clark instantly rejected, and the firingagain began, the backwoodsmen beseeching Clarkto let them storm the fort; he refused. Whilethe negotiations were going on a singular incidentoccurred. A party of Hamiltons Indians re-turned from a successful scalping expeditionagainst the frontier, and being ignorant of whathad taken place, marched straight into the of Clarks backwoodsmen instantly fell onthem and killed or captured nine, besides twoFrench partisans who had been out with them.^One of the latter was the son of a Creole lieutenantin Clarks troops, and after much pleading hisfather and friends procured the release of himselfand his comrade.^ Clark determined to make
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