Harper's encyclopædia of United States history from 458 1906, based upon the plan of Benson John Lossing .. . MOVEMENT TOWARDS FIVK FORKS. ren moved to the attack. Ayres chargedupon the Confederate right, carried aportion of the line, and captured morethan 1,000 men and several charged the front, and GrifBn fellupon the left with such force that he car-ried the intrenehments and seized 1,500men. Crawford, meanwhile, had come for-ward, cut off their retreat in the direc- tion of Lees lines, struck them in therear, and captured four guns. Hardpressed, the Confederates
Harper's encyclopædia of United States history from 458 1906, based upon the plan of Benson John Lossing .. . MOVEMENT TOWARDS FIVK FORKS. ren moved to the attack. Ayres chargedupon the Confederate right, carried aportion of the line, and captured morethan 1,000 men and several charged the front, and GrifBn fellupon the left with such force that he car-ried the intrenehments and seized 1,500men. Crawford, meanwhile, had come for-ward, cut off their retreat in the direc- tion of Lees lines, struck them in therear, and captured four guns. Hardpressed, the Confederates fought gallantlyand with great fortitude. At length thecavalry charged over the works simul-taneously with the turning of their flanksby Ayres and Griffin, and, bearing downupon the Confederates with great fury,caused a large portion of them to throw. BATTLE OP FIVE FORKS. 381 FIVE NATIONS—rLA<J down their arms, while the remaindermade a disorderly flight westward, pur-sued many miles by Merritt and McKen-zie. The Confederates lost a large numberof men, killed and wounded, and over5,000 were made prisoners. The Nation-als lost about 1,000, of whom 634 werekilled and wounded. Five Nations, The, the five AlgonquiaaIndian nations—Mohawks, Oneidas, Onon-dagas, Cayugas, and Senecas—who orig-inally formed the Iroquois Confederacy{q. v.). The Five Nations were joinedby the Tuscaroras, from North Carolina,in 1713, and then the confederacy wascalled the Six Nations {q. v.). Flag, National. Every colony hadits peculiar ensign, and the army and navyof the united colonies, at first, displayedvarious flags, some colonial, others regi-mental, and others, like the flag at FortSullivan, Charleston Harbor, a blue fieldwith a silver crescent, for special oc-casions. The American fiag used at thebattle on Bunker (Breeds) Hill, wascalled the
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