A history of the American people . les; but this war of the English-71 THE WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE against their chiefs? You are two brothers,- theysaid, of one blood. The Mohawks deemed it somesubtile treachery, as their great chief did, the redoubt-able Joseph Brant, himself trained with the Englishboys in Mr. Wheelocks school at Lebanon and taughtto see the whiteman close at hand;and the Cayugasand Senecas fol-lowed them in theirallegiance to themighty sachemwho lived over thegreat lake, theirfriend and allytime out of Onondagasheld off, Oneidas andTuscaroras, am< n tgw
A history of the American people . les; but this war of the English-71 THE WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE against their chiefs? You are two brothers,- theysaid, of one blood. The Mohawks deemed it somesubtile treachery, as their great chief did, the redoubt-able Joseph Brant, himself trained with the Englishboys in Mr. Wheelocks school at Lebanon and taughtto see the whiteman close at hand;and the Cayugasand Senecas fol-lowed them in theirallegiance to themighty sachemwho lived over thegreat lake, theirfriend and allytime out of Onondagasheld off, Oneidas andTuscaroras, am< n tgwhom Mr. Kirk-land was mission-ary, aided the pa-triots when theycould, because hewished it, butwould not take the war-path. There were white loyalists, too, as well asred, .in thai far frontier. Sir John Johnson was theirleader. Their regiment of Royal Greens, together withJohn Butlers Tory rangers, constituted the bulk lSt. Legers motley force of seventeen hundred, red menand white. Scottish highlanders, stubborn English-. *L^^ A HISTORY OF rill: AMERICAN PEOPLE men hoi against the revolution, and restless Irishmen,for the nonce on the side of authority, filled their ranks.
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