The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1836-05-18
Suffolk Englad.
Westminster Qy
NIarg Par Wem
County of Deyn.
Wethersfeld On
BRADDOCKS'S DEFEAT.

"All accounts agree that the unfortunate
Braddock behaved with great gallarTy,
through little discretion, in his trying stu
ton. He encouraged his soldiers, and vas |
crying out with his speaking trumpet. Hu- |
rah, boys lose the saddle or WIN the horstr
when a bullet struck him, and he fell to tie
ground, exclaiming-' Ha, boys I'm gomez
I During all this time not cannon had been
/ fired by the British forces. 1t was ut tbs
moment that one who was with him at tie
time, who is still living, and on whose hun
BILE testimony / rely even with more con-
! fidence than on the more imposing authorty
of history, thus describes Washington. s;w
him take hold of brass field piece, as ifit
had been n stick. He looked like fury
he tore the sheet lead from the touch-holt,
| he placed one hand on the muzzle, the otlcr
on the breech he pulled with this, aud
and pushed with that, and wheeled it round
as it had been nothing. 1t tore the groutd
like barshare, "a kind of plough.) The
powder monkey rushed up with the fire, and
then the cannon began to bark, tell you:
They fought and they fought, and the ln-
dians began to haioo, when the rest Of the
brass cannon made the bark of the trees ly,
and the Indians came down. That place
they call Rock Hill, and there they left 500
men dead on the ground"
Some idea of the cruelty and suffering
which were exercised and felt in the three
years of savage warfare which succeeded the
defeat Of Braddock, may be gathered from
the subjoincd sketch which was obtained
from The lips Of Washington himself, and is
now first presented to the public:
"One day, said Washington, rs we
were traversing part of the frontier, we
came upon single log house, standing in
the centre of a little clearing surrounded by
woods OH all sides. As we approached, we
heard the report of a gun, the usual signal
of coming horrors. Our party crept eau
tiously through the underwood, until we
approached near enough to see what we
had already foreboded. A smoke was slow
ly making its way through the roof of the
, bonse while n rnriy nf Indians ceme forth
laden with plunder, consisting OF clothes,
domestic utensils, household furniture, and
dripping scalps. We fired and killed all
/ but one, who tried to get away but was soon
shot down.
"On entering the hut we saw sight that
though we were familiar with blood and
massacres, struck us, at least myself, with
feelings more mournful than had ever ex'
perienced before. On bed in one corner
of the room lay young woman swimming
: in blood, with cash in her forehead which
almost separated the head into two parts
On her breast lay two little babes, apparent
" twins, less than twolvemonth old, will
: their heads also cut open. Their innocen
blood, which had once flowed in the same
teins, now mingled in one current again
, was Injured to scenes Of bloodehed ant
misery, but this cut me to the soul, ant
never in NV after life did raise my bant
against savage without calling to mind tn
/, mother with her little twins,-their head
cleft asunder. ."'-Paulding's Life Of Wash
Il ington.