Una storia del popolo americano . hey hadnot solo le loro lunghe coste di guardare e British armiesto contrastare e scacco matto, ma i loro confini occidentali alsoto tenere contro il Tory andsavage. The Iroquois coun provare, in particolare, e tuttele lungo le valli del mo-hawk, la Unadilla, e theSusquehanna, filledwith erano i terrori di raid andmassacre tutta thatdisappointing e anxioussummer del 1778. Il tronchetto di nato lealisti del forestcountry, con loro temperstill della selvaggia di alta terre del vecchio Scozia o del paese non trattabili-sidesof Old England, aveva beendriven in esilio dall' ONU-com

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A history of the American people . hey hadnot only their long coasts to watch and British armiesto thwart and checkmate, but their western borders alsoto keep, against Tory andsavage. The Iroquois coun-try, in particular, and allthe long valleys of the Mo-hawk, the Unadilla, and theSusquehanna, were filledwith the terrors of raid andmassacre throughout thatdisappointing and anxioussummer of 1778. The stub-born loyalists of the forestcountry, with their temperstill of the untamed high-lands of old Scotland or ofthe intractable country-sidesof old England, had beendriven into exile by the un-compromising patriots, theirneighbors, who outnumberedthem. But they had notgone far. They had madetheir headquarters, the moredogged and determined ofthem, at Niagara, until thisscore should be settled. SirJohn Johnson was stilltheir leader, for all he had been so discomfited beforeFort Stanwix; and John Butler and Walter Butler, father and son, men touched with the savagery of theredmen, their allies. Joseph Brant, that masterful292. >NTINENTAL LOTTERY BOOK THE WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE spirit who was a sort of self-appointed king amongthe savage Mohawks, did not often willingly forgetthe precepts of that Christian creed to which good Mr.Wheelock had drawn him in his boyhood, and heldthe red men back when he could from every wantondeed of blood; but the Butlers stopped at nothing, andwhite men and red made common cause against theborder settlements. Their cruel strokes were dealtboth far and near. Upon a day in July, 1778, neverto be forgotten, twelve hundred men fell upon the far-away Wyoming Valley upon the Susquehanna andharried it from end to end until it was black and deso-late. In November a like terrible fate fell upon peace-ful Cherry Valley, close at hand. There could be nopeace or quarter until the hands of these men werestayed. But, though very slowly, the end came. The menwho mustered in the patriotic ranks knew the forestand were masters of its warfare. They had only t

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