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Tecumseh present at the second attack on fort Meigs his stratagem of a sham-battle to draw out general Clay is posted in the Black swamp with two thousand warriors at the time of the attack on fort Stephenson from thence passes by land to Malden compels general Proctor to release an American prisoner threatens to desert the British cause urges an attack upon the American fleet opposes Proctor's retreat from Malden delivers a speech to him on that occasion.
Bobbsey took Bert and Harry up to where other moving pictures were being made. The boys did not understand all that was being done, but they watched eagerly just the same. They saw men and soldiers talking to the ladies, who were members of the moving picture company. Then they saw soldiers, who pretended to have been hurt in the sham-battle, being put on cots, and bandaged up.
Governor Samuel Johnston to James Robertson and Anthony Bledsoe, January 29, 1788. A strange sham-battle, staged like some scene from opera bouffe, in the bleak snow-storm of February, 1788, is really the prelude to a remarkable drama of revolt in which Sevier, Robertson, Bledsoe, and the Cumberland stalwarts play the leading roles.
Lieutenant-Colonel Carden for so I shall call him, although not his real name had not been a month at quarters, when he proved himself a regular martinet; everlasting drills, continual reports, fatigue parties, and ball practice, and heaven knows what besides, superseded our former morning's occupation; and, at the end of the time I have metioned, we, who had fought our way from Albuera to Waterloo, under some of the severest generals of division, were pronounced a most disorderly and ill-disciplined regiment, by a Colonel, who had never seen a shot fired but at a review in Hounslow, or a sham-battle in the Fifteen Acres.
Lieutenant-Colonel Carden for so I shall call him, although not his real name had not been a month at quarters, when he proved himself a regular martinet; everlasting drills, continual reports, fatigue parties, and ball practice, and heaven knows what besides, superseded our former morning's occupation; and, at the end of the time I have metioned, we, who had fought our way from Albuera to Waterloo, under some of the severest generals of division, were pronounced a most disorderly and ill-disciplined regiment, by a Colonel, who had never seen a shot fired but at a review in Hounslow, or a sham-battle in the Fifteen Acres.
The enemy finding that the garrison could not be drawn out, and a heavy shower of rain beginning to fall, terminated their sham-battle.
"I hope she does," Bert said. "It will be fun to see Freddie falling in." "Poor little fellow!" murmured Nan. "But he was real brave," Mabel added. For several days the Bobbsey twins, their cousin and their country friends talked of the moving pictures in which they had had a part. They went again to the valley, where more scenes were being made, but none were as exciting as the sham-battle.
From his boyhood, Tecumseh seems to have had a passion for war. His pastimes, like those of Napoleon, were generally in the sham-battle field. At this time Tecumseh was very young, and joined the expedition under the care of his brother, who was wounded at the first fire.
We exchanged compliments and clubs in a sham-battle that was immensely diverting; we returned the missiles they threw at us as long as the ammunition held out, but captured none of the enemy, nor did the slightest damage as far as we could ascertain. Often the parrots squalled at us, but their vocabulary was limited; for they were untaught of men.
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