 | Robert Rogers - 1860 - 342 sidor
...Tradition has but faintly " preferved the Event ; and its only Annalifts, Men "who held the inteftine Feuds of the Savage Tribes in " no more Account than...was poured out in Atonement " than flowed from the Hecatombs of flaughtered " Heroes on the Corpfe of Patroclus ; and the Rem" nant of the Illinois who... | |
 | 1886 - 500 sidor
...assassinated by a strolling Indian, but, says the historian, whole tribes were rooted out to expiate it ... over the grave of Pontiac more blood was poured out in atonement than flowed from the hecatomb of slaughtered heroes on the corpse of Patroclus. . . . Neither mound nor tablet marked the... | |
 | Francis Parkman - 1880 - 408 sidor
...their united bands descended on the villages of the Illinois. Tradition has but faintly preserved the memory of the event ; and its only annalists, men...of the Illinois who survived the carnage remained for ever after sunk in utter insignificance,1 kaskia wife, with whom he had a quarrel, and she persuaded... | |
 | Cyrus Cort - 1883 - 290 sidor
...in the American Union." Thus was expiated the death of Pontiac, over whose grave, as Parkman says, " more blood was poured out in atonement than flowed...the slaughtered heroes on the corpse of Patroclus." Let justice be done to the memory of the man who broke the eastern wing of the great conspiracy at... | |
 | 1903 - 516 sidor
...They went upon the warpath against the Illinois Indians. A relentless war ensued, and says Parkman, "over the grave of Pontiac more blood was poured out...the slaughtered heroes on the corpse of Patroclus." The body of the murdered chief was borne across the river and buried near Fort St. Louis. No monument... | |
 | Norman Barton Wood - 1906 - 782 sidor
...savage tribes in no more account than the quarrels of panthers or wildcats, have left but a meager record. Yet enough remains to tell us that over the...blood was poured out in atonement than flowed from the hecatombs of slaughtered heroes on the corpse of Patroclus. and the race whom he hated with such burning... | |
 | Sarah Emma Simons - 1915 - 492 sidor
...their united bands descended on the villages of the Illinois. Tradition has but faintly preserved the memory of the event; and its only annalists, men who...of the Illinois who survived the carnage remained for ever after sunk in utter insignificance. Neither mound nor tablet marked the burial-place of Pontiac.... | |
 | Francis Parkman - 1991 - 1012 sidor
...their united bands descended on the villages of the Illinois. Tradition has but faintly preserved the memory of the event; and its only annalists, men who...poured out in atonement, than flowed from the veins of die slaughtered heroes on the corpse of Patroclus; and the remnant of die Illinois who survived the... | |
 | Gordon M. Sayre - 2006 - 368 sidor
...he lived his last four years in disrepute, Francis Parkman endowed his death with epic significance: "Over the grave of Pontiac more blood was poured out...the slaughtered heroes on the corpse of Patroclus" (845). Parkman's The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War ajter the Conquest of Canada, the first... | |
 | Major Robert Rogers - 1860 - 350 sidor
...Tradition has but faintly " preferved the Event ; and its only Annalifts, Men "who held the inteftine Feuds of the Savage Tribes in " no more Account than...was poured out in Atonement " than flowed from the Hecatombs of flaughtered " Heroes on the Corpfe of Patroclus ; and the Rem" nant of the Illinois who... | |
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... on the villages of the Illinois. Tradition has but faintly preserved the memory of the event; and its only annalists, men who held the intestine feuds of the savage tribes in no more account than the quarrels of panthers or wildcats, have left but... 