. The greatest highway in the world; historical, industrial and descriptive information of the towns, cities and country passed through between New York and Chicago via the New York Central Lines .. . theDutch and then to the English for allies. Thus did New France,says Parkman, rush into collision with the redoubted warriors ofthe Five Nations. Here was the beginning, and in some measuredoubtless the cause, of a long series of murderous conflicts, bearinghavoc and flame to generations yet unborn. Parkman estimates thatin the period after the Tuscaroras joined the Iroquois, the Six Na-tions ha
. The greatest highway in the world; historical, industrial and descriptive information of the towns, cities and country passed through between New York and Chicago via the New York Central Lines .. . theDutch and then to the English for allies. Thus did New France,says Parkman, rush into collision with the redoubted warriors ofthe Five Nations. Here was the beginning, and in some measuredoubtless the cause, of a long series of murderous conflicts, bearinghavoc and flame to generations yet unborn. Parkman estimates thatin the period after the Tuscaroras joined the Iroquois, the Six Na-tions had a population of about 12,000 with not more than 2,150 fight-ing men. It is a matter of some surprise that so small a fighting Stephen Van Rensselaer Stephen Van Rensselaer was theeighth patroon and fifth in descent fromKilliacn, the first lord of the was lieutenant governor of X. ardent promoter of the Erie Canal,a major general in the War of 1812(during which he was defeated in theBattle of Queenstown Heights), andrepresented N. V. in Congress from1822 to 1829. In 1S24 lie founded aschool in Troy, which was incorporatedtwo years later as the Rensselaer Poly-technic force could wield so great a power in the early days. But TheodoreRoosevelt, in speaking of the Indians as warriors, says: On theirown ground they were far more formidable than the best Europeantroops. It is to this day doubtful whether the superb British regularsat Braddocks battle or the Highlanders at Grants defeat a fewyears later, were able to so much as kill one Indian for every hun-dred of their own men who fell. Although up to that time theyhad been loyal friends of the colonists, in the War of Independencethe Iroquois fought on the English side, and by repeated battlestheir power was nearly destroyed. From very early times a silvercovenant chain was used as a symbol of their treaties with theWhites, and each time a new treaty was signed the covenant chainwas renewed or reburnish
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