Cornplanter Speaks to the Thirteen Fires

Posted by on Nov 30, 2013 in | Comments Off on Cornplanter Speaks to the Thirteen Fires Winter had broken into spring so that the trail through the wilds of Pennsylvania leading east from Fort Pitt was at least passable. The Com­missioners of Indian Affairs who had spent the winter at the fort set out with the first break in the weather anxious to return home and report their Indian treaty negotiations to the Continental Congress. They had been gone only a few days when, on the...
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The Flight of the Brigantine Eagle

Posted by on Nov 29, 2013 in | Comments Off on The Flight of the Brigantine Eagle Captain Ashmead had cause to be concerned as he focused his glass on the two sailing ships some distance off his port bow. Moments before, he had been watching a sail some eight miles off his stern to the northeast, when his lookout called out the sighting of two sails almost dead ahead. Their riggings identified the two as a brig and a schooner, and motion atop its foremast reveal­ed the brig...
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