The Kentucky gazette — Lexington [Ky.], 1790-12-11 00:00:00, page 3

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?t tit Print if tUKENTUCTt CJ- Indl&ns who would have been his all that thelf officers fomc of whota
ZSTTE faf'cft guards againft falling into an behaved very galently' could do to
&: JLm rip ambuliade e fo difguftcj by the ftp their catar
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oblin gas to inlert them myour
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They are too plain to need a com
ment
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An old SuLUU'R-
permit proceeds thus : — ‘‘ That
with the other twelve hundred men
together with ten pieces of cannon
the neceflary ammunition and pro
’ Vidor' he marched on w ith fo much
t expedition that he ftldom took a-
OPeatng of the tllay occafioned nv lime to reconnoitre tlic woods or regularly and adiianGeT-Whilelliit
by the want of pmvifio:s wheel thickcis lie was to pafs through as was doing his men fell thick about
can 'ages and beads of luuli i t-v if the nearer he approached the ene him and almoft all his officers were
ing -giriia 10 the greials landing in V ir my the fartlicr lie was removed fingled oUr one after an other and
rather than in Fenrfvfvania from danger kjiled or wounded for the Indians
—ilia hyfiory proceeds thus! “ On Mie g:h of July (175s) he who always take aim when they fire -
Ancihcr and (till more fatal ennimpcd witnin ten miles 01 Fort and aim chiefly at the officers dif
erro was committed in the choice of du Q uinc (now' Pittsburg 1) m J linguiflisd them by their dre:s At
of -tion the commander for this expedi although col Dunbar was then near kft the general whofe ob'Hnacy
Mijir G'Tftal J'rad hick forty miles in his rear and his of ft— feemed to increafe with the d inger '
who was app limed to it was un- cer? pirticularly fir Peter Halkct after havi g had five horfes (hot un-
eancdly entreated him to proceed der him received lumfelf a mdquet
with caution and to employ' the ball throughjhe right arm and lur-gs
up in fricrdy Indians who ftIl were with cf which he died four days after fa
him iy vryjne- stWanrcd guard
in cafe of atnbufeadrs ct here
f ined his march the next da with
out lo much as endea vowing to get
mongft whom lc was to command any intelligence of the fituaticn or
His extreme fe verity in matters f difpofiticn of the enemy or even very diforderly flight though no e
diicipiirc had always made his fol- fending nut fcouts to viliiths woods nemy appeared or attempted to at-
diers dill’i- him and the drift and thickets then on both Tides of tack them But wha was verv ex-
mihtary education 1:1 wh ch he had him as well as in his front
been trained from his ouih ar d “ With this carelcfsncfs he was
"winch be priied liimfelf on ftritlly advancing when adiur noon he
following made him hold tlie Vne- was diluted with a general fire up
Aiccn militia in great conteirp lie- on h:s front and all along his left e
caule they -could -not go through flirk fiom an enemy fo artfully heavy upon them cs upon any 01
tlieT txcriifc with t!ie lame dexte- concealed behind the trees and bulb- the reft but even offered tb cover
rity and regularity as a rrgunent of es that net a man of them could be the fugitives and bravely formed
guards in Hyie Park little know f:en and who had cunuingly given al°be and advanced againft tlie fil
ing or indeed being able to form-the "wfib!e"arm time to ciitcr the dians s to which gallantry it was ow
any idea of the difference between defile before they begin to fire ingjihat the regulars were sot all cut '
the European manner of figlving The van guard immediately fell off- t'-
and an American expedition thro back upon the main bodyi and in - "
wood- deferts and morallcs His an infiant the pannir and omfufion ' ‘
conceit of hiaown abilities made fankulctly 0 i’t regulars became ge
'him dtAJajjjMo afk the opinioii of ii'Hr' iwii piuii jt ilieni fled with
any under liis command and the great precipitation notmthilanding
c eight
unfortunate exp'dilion ir ou dred men to bring up the ftorcs
ceoncive they will beef any uiuitv pravirws d heavy baggage at
to our cuinirmersyou wil be lo fafy as the nature of the ftrvice would
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could fcour the wood3 from whence
the fire came with grape (hot from
the ten pieces of cannon he had with
him or ordering flanking parties of
his Indians' to advance againft tlKe
nemy he obflinately continued upon
the 1 pot where he wast and gave or
ders for the few brave officers and
men who remained withhimtoform
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