. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... MEDAL STRUCK IN HONOR OF PAUL JONES. The population increased rapidly in spite ofthe war and of the unremitting hostility ofthe Indians. During the revolution the Kentucky set-tlements suffered very much from the hos-tility of the Indians, who were urged on bythe emissaries of Great Britain to a war of 448 THE AMERICAN extermination. Themother country inwas Hamilton, the DANIEL BOONE. principal agent of thethis barbarous warfareBritish commander
. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... MEDAL STRUCK IN HONOR OF PAUL JONES. The population increased rapidly in spite ofthe war and of the unremitting hostility ofthe Indians. During the revolution the Kentucky set-tlements suffered very much from the hos-tility of the Indians, who were urged on bythe emissaries of Great Britain to a war of 448 THE AMERICAN extermination. Themother country inwas Hamilton, the DANIEL BOONE. principal agent of thethis barbarous warfareBritish commander at Detroit. In order to puta stop to his intriguesand deprive the Indiansof his aid, Congress re-solved to despatch aforce to attack Detroit. While this plan wasin contemplation theState of Virginia in 17/8,^sent Colonel GeorgeRogers Clarke with aforce of two hundredmen to conquer the ter-ritory northwest of ^heOhio, which Virginiaclaimed as a part of herpossessions Clarke wasa backwoodsman, butone of natures assembled his menat Pittsburg, and des-cended the Ohio to thefalls in flat-boats. Therehe established a settle-ment of thirteen families,the germ of the presentcity of Louisville. Beingjoined by some Kentuck-ians he continued hisdescent of the river to ashort distance below themouth of the and conceal-ing Lis boats, he struckacross the country andsurprised and capturedthe town of Kaskaskia,within the limits of thepresent Stat
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