| Israel Daniel Rupp - Indians of North America - 1846 - 814 pages
...with a quick succession of charged guns gradually firing off, as they were reached by the fire ; but more so with the vast explosion of sundry bags and...house abounded. The prisoners afterwards informing, that the Indians had frequently said, they had a sufficient slock of ammunition for ten years to war... | |
| Israel Daniel Rupp - Indians of North America - 1848 - 782 pages
...succession of charged guns gradually firing off, as they were reached by the fire ; but more so with Ihc vast explosion of sundry bags and large kegs of gunpowder,...house abounded. The prisoners afterwards informing, that the Indians had frequently said, they had a sufficient stock of ammunition for ten years to war... | |
| Joseph Pritts - Frontier and pioneer life - 1849 - 774 pages
...with a quick succession of charged guns gradually firing off, as they were reached by the fire; but more so with the vast explosion of sundry bags and...almost every house abounded. The prisoners afterwards informed us that the Indians had frequently said they had a sufficient stock of ammunition for ten... | |
| Washington Irving - 1857 - 1384 pages
...During the burning of the houses," says Colonel Armstrong, '• we were agreeably entertained with a quick succession of charged guns, gradually firing...the vast explosion of sundry bags, and large kegs of powder, wherewith almost every house abounded." The colonel was in a strange condition to enjoy such... | |
| Pennsylvania. Provincial Council - Pennsylvania - 1851 - 816 pages
...During the burning of the Houses, which were near thirty in Number, we were agrcably entertained with a Quick Succession of charged Guns, gradually Firing...much more so, with the vast Explosion of sundry Bags & large Cags of Gunpowder, wherewith almost every House abounded; the Prisoners afterwd' informing... | |
| Pennsylvania. Provincial Council - Pennsylvania - 1851 - 808 pages
...During the burning of the Houses, which were near thirty in Number, we were agreably entertained with a Quick Succession of charged Guns, gradually Firing...much more so, with the vast Explosion of sundry Bags & large Cags of Gunpowder, wherewith almost every House abounded; the Prisoners afterw''- informing... | |
| Samuel Hazard - Pennsylvania - 1851 - 812 pages
...were agreably entertained with a Quick Succession of charged Guns, gradually Firing off as reach< d by the Fire, but much more so, with the vast Explosion of sundry Bags & large Gags of Gunpowder, wherewith almost every House abounded; the Prisoners afterw'' informing... | |
| Samuel Hazard, John Blair Linn, William Henry Egle, George Edward Reed, Thomas Lynch Montgomery, Gertrude MacKinney, Charles Francis Hoban - History - 1853 - 796 pages
...During the burning of the houses, which were Near thirty in Number, we were agreeably entertained with a quick Succession of charged Guns gradually firing...so with the vast Explosion of sundry Bags and large Cags of Gunpowder, wherewith almost every House abounded, the prisoners afterwards informing that the... | |
| Washington Irving - Celebrities - 1855 - 566 pages
..."During the burning of the houses," says Colonel Armstrong, " we were agreeably entertained with a quick succession of charged guns, gradually firing...the vast explosion of sundry bags, and large kegs of powder, wherewith almost every house abounded." The colonel was in a strange condition to enjoy such... | |
| Uriah James Jones - History - 1856 - 430 pages
...During the burning of the houses, which were near thirty in number, we were agreeably entertained with a quick succession of charged guns gradually firing...wherewith almost every house abounded ; the prisoners afterward informing us that the Indians had frequently said they had a sufficient stock of ammunition... | |
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