 | William Leete Stone - Indians of North America - 1838 - 540 pages
..." East in a semi-circular form, and bearing a Northern and " Southern direction. The bottom of this ravine was marshy, " and the road crossed it by means of a causeway. The ground, " thus partly enclosed by the ravine, was elevated and level. " The ambuscade was laid... | |
 | William Leete Stone - Canada - 1838 - 568 pages
..." East in a semi-circular form, and bearing a Northern and " Southern direction. The bottom of this ravine was marshy, " and the road crossed it by means of a causeway. The ground, " thus partly enclosed by the ravine, was elevated and level. " The ambuscade was laid... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman - American fiction - 1840 - 272 pages
...part in the bold invasion which now threatened to give the royalists possession of at least two thirds of the fair province of New- York, if, indeed, they...Johnson's Greens, with a battalion of Major Watts's Royal New-Yorkers, disposed themselves in the form of a semicircle, with a swarm of Red warriors clustering... | |
 | Charles Neilson - Burgoyne's Invasion, 1777 - 1844 - 316 pages
...east in a semi-circular form, and bearing in a northern and southern direction. The bottom of this ravine was marshy, and the road crossed it by means of a causeway. The ground, thus partly enclosed by the ravine, was elevated and level. The ambuscade was laid upon... | |
 | John Frost - Indian captivities - 1849 - 478 pages
...the road from north to south, swept toward the east so as to enclose a semicircle. The bottom of this ravine was marshy, and the road crossed it by means of a causeway. At this place, St. Leger, having heard of Herkimer's approach, had posted a force of Indians and Tories... | |
 | J. C. Gilleland - Gulf States - 1851 - 478 pages
...the east in a semi-circular form, and bearing a northern and southern direction. The bottom of this ravine was marshy, and the road crossed it by means of a causeway. The ground, thus partly enclosed by the ravine, was elevated and level. The ambuscade was laid upon... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1851 - 594 pages
...grounds on the south to the river, and curved toward the east in a semicircular form. The bottom of this ravine was marshy, and the road crossed it by means of a causeway of earth and logs. On each side of the ravine the ground was nearly level, and heavily timbered. A... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1851 - 606 pages
...grounds on the south to the river, and curved toward the east in a semicircular form. The bottom of this ravine was marshy, and the road crossed it by means of a causeway of earth and logs. On each side of the ravine the ground was nearly level, and heavily timbered. A... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1851 - 596 pages
...grounds on the south to the river, and curved toward the east in a semicircular form. The bottom of this ravine was marshy, and the road crossed it by means of a causeway of earth and logs. On each side of the ravine the ground was nearly level, and heavily timbered. A... | |
 | William Leete Stone - Indians of North America - 1851 - 546 pages
..." East in a semi-circular form, and bearing a Northern and " Southern direction. The bottom of this ravine was marshy, " and the road crossed it by means of a causeway. The ground, "thus partly enclosed "by the ravine, was elevated and level. " The ambuscade was laid... | |
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Herkimer, with his undisciplined array, was traversing, "sweeping toward the east in a semicircular form, and bearing a northern and southern direction. The bottom of this ravine was marshy, and the road crossed it by means of a causeway. The ground,... 
