Identifier: indianhistoryfor00drak (find matches)
Title: Indian history for young folks
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Drake, Francis S. (Francis Samuel), 1828-1885 Dowd, Francis Joseph, 1876-
Subjects: Indians of North America Indians of North America -- Wars
Publisher: New York London : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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kidnapped and sold into slavery. These wrongs and injuries calledfor vengeance. No general rising took place, but a relentless border warfare, extendingover a space of three hundred miles, was carried on. In the two years ofits duration nearly half the English settlements were destroyed, and theirinhabitants either driven off, killed, or carried into captivity. Peace MTasfinally established in 1678. Saco was burned by the Indians, led by Squando, who besieged thegarrison-house of Major Philips. Early in the following morning a cart,filled with combustibles and protected by a sort of plankbreastwork in front, was pushed towards the house. Some ofthe garrison were dismayed on the sight of this seemingly formidableengine of destruction, but were encouraged by their officers. Orders weregiven not to tire until it came within pistol-shot. AVhen it had a!>outreached that point one of the wheels stuck fast, which those who were NIXIGRET. Sept 18,1675. ow 9 55 Q A >•SIS3 i z io k - v
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KING PHILIPS WAR. 168 pushing did not observe. The other wheels moving forward broughtthem into a position to be effectually raked by the garrison. This ac-cident was quickly improved by them — a sudden volley killed six andwounded fifteen more. The Indians immediately retreated, and aban-doned the attack. The escape of Anne Brackett, whose family had been taken captives atthe sack of Falmouth (now Portland, Maine), was remarkable. Loiteringbehind her captors, she spied the wreck of a birch canoe. She patchedand repaired it with a needle and thread found in a deserted house. Em-barking with her husband, a negro servant, and her infant in this frailvessel, she crossed Casco Bay with infinite peril. Arriving at Black Point,where she feared to find Indians, and could only expect to find a solitude,to her great joy she found a vessel from Piscataqua that had just enteredthe harbor. The pioneer women of America were in no respect inferior in heroismand devotion to their husbands, their f

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