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Clair promises to make every exertion for the sending of two or three hundred in a few days whom however I am not to depend upon. I am myself going to the head of Elk and shall arrive there this evening. It has not been possible for me to leave sooner the City, as the three days I have remained here have been fully employed in making and forwarding preparations.
From a Testimonial by St. Clair McKelway ... David G. Croly's personality was always healthy and hopeful. He commended with justice, he censured with consideration, he changed or cut out your copy with regard exclusively to the increased value of the article for newspaper purposes. The staff was like a large family under him.
Clair was hissed and jeered as he traveled home, but a wakeful opposition turned from the unsuccessful general to a vain attempt to prove that ambushed savages and sleeping sentries were due to a weak war department and a corrupt and inefficient treasury.
Some of the cabins were already comfortable; and many families of women and children had come out to join their husbands and fathers. St. Clair Made Governor. The newly appointed Governor of the territory, Arthur St. Clair, had reached the place in July, and formally assumed his task of government. Both Governor St.
I mounted the hill slowly and in a great maze, getting more and more troubled. I entering the lists with Faustina St. Clair, going in her ways? I knew these were her ways. I had heard scraps enough of conversation among the girls about these things, which I then did not understand.
The English had been repulsed in an attack on it in the war with the French in 1768 with severe loss. But Burgoyne now invested it with great skill; and the American general, St. Clair, who had only an ill-equipped army of about three thousand men, evacuated it on the 5th of July.
"All the same, if I ever catch that young jackanapes of a St. Clair it's an easy name to remember I'll strip my uniform off him and turn him loose for his own comrades to laugh at." "But we won't catch either him or his comrades for a long time." "That's so, but in the end we'll catch 'em. Now, Mr.
The gold fell from his fingers, spun round a few times, and, dropping upon the polished mahogany table, made a distinct clink. "I do not understand you, Mr. Farrar." The preacher hastened to make the circumstance more intelligible. He related the scene at the St. Clair chapel with a dramatic force that sprang from intense feeling, and Elizabeth listened to his solemn words with angry uneasiness.
"If you knew, you would not ask me," I said in great displeasure. But a delighted shout from all my room-mates answered this unlucky speech, which I had been too excited to make logical. "Capital!" cried St. Clair. "That's just it we don't know; and we only want to find out whether she a does. Make her tell, Lansing prick a little pin into her that will bring it out."
The plan of campaign was to build a line of forts, and accordingly one named Fort Hamilton was erected twenty-four miles north on the Miami, and then Fort Jefferson was built forty-four miles north of that point. Thence St. Clair pushed slowly on for twenty-nine miles until he reached the head-waters of the Wabash.
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