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... shot a young gentleman in the neck through a collar , for stiffness as if it had been an oaken board , and entered his flesh a good depth . Myself received an arrow through my coat sleeve , a second against my helmet on the forehead ...
... shot a young gentleman in the neck through a collar , for stiffness as if it had been an oaken board , and entered his flesh a good depth . Myself received an arrow through my coat sleeve , a second against my helmet on the forehead ...
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... shot upon the breast of his corselet , as if it had been pushed with a pike , and if he had not had it on , he had lost his life . A pretty passage worthy observation . We had an Indian with us that was an interpreter ; being in English ...
... shot upon the breast of his corselet , as if it had been pushed with a pike , and if he had not had it on , he had lost his life . A pretty passage worthy observation . We had an Indian with us that was an interpreter ; being in English ...
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... shot for arrows . suing them , a hundred more started out of the ambushments , and almost surrounded him and his company ; and some they slew , others they maimed , and forced them to retreat to their fort , so that it was a special ...
... shot for arrows . suing them , a hundred more started out of the ambushments , and almost surrounded him and his company ; and some they slew , others they maimed , and forced them to retreat to their fort , so that it was a special ...
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... shot among their canoes . And though they were a mile from us , yet the bullet grazed not above twenty yards over the canoe , where the poor maids were . It was a special provi- dence of God it did not hit them , for then should we have ...
... shot among their canoes . And though they were a mile from us , yet the bullet grazed not above twenty yards over the canoe , where the poor maids were . It was a special provi- dence of God it did not hit them , for then should we have ...
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... shot upon the fort . So remarkable it appeared to us , as we could not but admire at the providence of God in it , that soldiers so unexpert in the use of their arms , should give so complete a volley , as though the finger of God had ...
... shot upon the fort . So remarkable it appeared to us , as we could not but admire at the providence of God in it , that soldiers so unexpert in the use of their arms , should give so complete a volley , as though the finger of God had ...
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