... BRADDOCK'S DEFEAT BRADDOCK'S DEFEAT by JOHN SCHLEBECKER Hiram College One of the things with which the reader of early American history is most impressed is the remarkable courage and wisdom of the American soldier The Europeans it seems just did not understand the ins and outs of forest fighting Only the American seemed to know that effective fighting on the frontier was by necessity done from behind trees History books are full of pictures of minute men shooting redcoats but they do not have ...
... settlement in Western settlements were a background settlements had been made west settlement People from New settlements he conducted settlements because it
... settlement of the state and settlement of Plymouth by the settlement in the Northwest Territory Senator Hoar of Massachusetts and President Perry of Marietta College contribute introductory pages to this volume which is published under the auspices of The Society of Colonial Dames of ...
... northwest of this village was northwest of the city and about half a mile north of Roxabell a station on the B amp 0 Southwestern This place also was generally called Old Town when I was teaching in Greenfield from 1848 to 1851 All these were Shawnee villages and the word is said to mean The place where the people live or words to that effect but I cannot vouch for it as correct Indian names ...
... settlement or habitation It is settlement and of migration what billions of money have been employed by way of improvements and in rewarding the processes of development what farming districts have been created and what workshops and what railroads have been constructed in the wilderness what cities with their busy thousands of inhabitants have been built in what was once the solitude of ...
... settlement of Granville On settlement in 1607 The commission appointed by Governor Pattison to have charge of the Ohio exhibit for this centennial consists of Mr Clive C Handy Wauseon Mr Ernest Root Medina Mr John P Given Circleville Mr B W Campbell Cincinnati and Professor George W Knight Columbus the latter being the acting secretary The ...
... Emilius Oviatt Randall Emilius Oviatt Randall 87 But a recognition wider and even more highly prized was that written in the hearts of those who knew and loved him During his college days at Ithaca Mr Randall met Miss Mary A Coy the lady who later became his wife To her and their two sons and daughter we of the Kit-Kat Club offer our sympathy We too have suffered a grievous loss We knew his genial companionship his ready helpfulness and his continuing friendship His sterling scholarship his ...
... Ohio Researches into Archaeology Ohio Researches into Archaeology 151 incidentally in correcting a number of errors with regard to the ancient monuments of Ohio due to the superficial nature of the examinations and measurements made by different writers and the errors deliberate or otherwise in their descriptions The book is a most valuable ...
... settlement in Columbus where 438 Ohio Arch 43 8 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications VOL 4 he remained a loved and honored citizen to the time of his death Mr Rickly suggested that the Secretary of the Society Mr Randall was thoroughly capable of preparing a history of Ohio and her ...
... northwest country did not northwestern Ohio Maps on pages 5 21 and 66 show the Blanchard River as the Auglaize The Fort Miami captured by Pontiac's sympathizers is placed on the lower Maumee River instead of in its proper place at the head of the Maumee site of the present city of Fort Wayne Indiana page 13 The site of the battlefield of ...
... northwest to live in Ohionorthwestern state Nor is there a difference in the proportions of exchange of citizens in the southern states Texas has been a pronounced offender in taking away many citizens and returning but few From Tennessee she drew 130000 inhabitants and repaid that state with 4000 From distant Massachusetts she attracted ...
... settlement of disputes between settlement of disputes between civilized nations but by the very irony of fate most wars have reactions quite the opposite of their original intention The undesigned reactions of war are the surprises of history In the 13th century and after the Dukes of Austria tried The Centennial of Perry's Victory Th e Centennial of Perry's Victory 67 by sheer brute power ...
... ohio as the County Lieu tenants of those Counties shall think proper to be furnished proportionally from their militia that Gr Kanhaway2 be garrisoned with 164 men Sandy with 100 amp Licking with 200 that for these purposes 254 militia be raised from the following Counties and in the following proportion via Botetourt 22 Rockbridge 18 Green briar 16 Augusta 43 Rockingham 15 Frederick 30 Hampshire 30 Berkeley 30 amp Kentucky 50 that the Garri1 ...
... settlement he set out next day settlement to settlement In settlements for its site Later it was moved to Hudson and became the nucleus of Western Reserve College now a university in Cleveland The Rev John Seward for a third of a century minister of Aurora was always alert to discover ...
... northwestern army as to bring northwestern army fully compensated for any loss of the export trade Wheat was worth 6212 cents per bushel in October 18 12 and rose to 100 per bushel by the middle of the following December52 John H Piatt the principal western army contractor had frequent ad49 Palmer Journal of Travels in the U S p 66 50 Burnet's Notes p 400 51 Cuming's Tour in Thwaite's Early ...
... settlement of the Northwest Territory begun at Marietta April 7 1788 Resolved That the eminent and patriotic services of the Congress composed of representatives from the original thirteen States in maintaining the struggle against their powerful enemy in establishing the independence of their country in securing quiet possession of the Mississippi valley and in giving to it the ordinances ...
... THE EXPEDITION OF CELORON THE EXPEDITION OF CELORON BY C B GALBREATH The journals of Celoron and Bonnecamps with the paper by O H Marshall are here published in order to bring together in convenient form the accounts of this remarkable expedition sent by the Marquis de la Galissoniere Governor-General of New France and the Country of Louisiana to establish more firmly the French claims to the Ohio country particularly that portion of it which ...
... settlement of the 6 To What Race Did the Mound-builders Belong 1877 26 Ohio Arch 26 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications valley This was in communication with the two mounds in Cincinnati the one on Third Street and the one on Fifth and Mound streets which could also receive news from that at the mouth of the Great Miami Dr H H Hill ...