determines to strike the first blow;
equips the first gunboat on the Western waters;
marches against Vincennes;
reaches the drowned lands of the Wabash;
hardships and sufferings of his troops;
encourages his troops;
difficulties of approach to Vincennes;
crosses the Horse Shoe Plain;
exhaustion of the troops;
surprises Vincennes;
attacks the fort;
summons the fort to surrender;
destroys a scouting party;
surrender of the fort;
reproaches Hamilton;
importance of the result of the expedition;
sends Helm to intercept a convoy;
disposes of his prisoners;
receives reinforcements;
pacifies the country;
builds a fort on the Mississippi;
moves to the Falls of the Ohio;
made a brigadier-general;
greatness of his deeds;
hears of Bird's inroads;
his campaign against Piqua;
musters his troops at the mouth of the Licking;
starts up the Ohio;
burns Chillicothe;
surprises the Indians at Piqua;
disperses the Indians;
destroys the town;
disbands his army;
effects of the victory;
his plan to attack Detroit;
why his efforts were baffled;
commandant of State troops;
roused by the battle of the Blue Licks;
his counter-stroke;
destroys the Miami towns;
undertakes to supply the settlements with meat;
Clay MSS., II, Appendix;
Cleavland, Col. Benjamin, commands North Carolina militia, II;
commands left wing at King's Mountain;
Clinch River, settlers of, at war with Shawnees, I;
a feeder of the Tennessee River;
Conolly, Capt. John, his hostilities against Pennsylvania, I;
his rashness;
his open letter;
appalled by the storm he had raisen;
holds councils with Delawares and Iroquois;
defied by the Shawnees;
Cornstalk, a Shawnee chief, I;
first heard of in Pontiac's war;
opposed to the war with the whites;
his strategy;
advances to attack Lewis;
crossing the Ohio;
fails to surprise Lewis' army;
displays the only generalship at the battle of the Great Kanawha;
bids defiance to his foes;
sues for peace;
his eloquence;
his grand death
Cornwallis, Lord, in command at the South, II;
marches through the up-country;
retreats from North Carolina;
Crab Orchard, regarded with affection by travellers, I;
Crawford, Col. William, a fairly good officer, II;
marches against
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