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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter 24: (search)
ngerous resting-place for those of the people unacquainted with lying in the woods. Yet the weather was fair; and the atmosphere, usually thick with palpable fogs, was, during the whole siege, singularly dry. All day long, the men, if not on duty, were busy with amusements,—firing at marks, fishing, fowling, wrestling, racing, or running after balls shot from the enemy's guns. The feebleness of the garrison, which had only six hundred regular soldiers, with about a thou- Belknap 278. sand Breton militia, prevented sallies; the hunting parties, as vigilant for the trail of an enemy as for game, rendered a surprise by land impossible; while the fleet of Admiral Warren guarded the approaches by sea. Four or five attempts to take the island battery, which commanded the entrance to the harbor, had Chap. XXIV.} failed. The failure is talked of among the troops; a party of volunteers, after the fashion of Indian ex- 1745 peditions, under a chief of their own election, enlist for a v
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Baltimore. See Calvert. Bank of England chartered, III. 191 Bank of France, III. 354. Barclay, Robert, governor of New Jersey, II. 414. Barlow, his voyage, I. 92. Behring's discoveries, III. 453. Bellamont, Lord, in New York, III. 59. In New England, 82. Berkeley, George, character of, III. 372. Berkeley, Sir William, in Virginia, I. 203. In England, II. 68. Plants Carolina, 134. Dissatisfied, 203. His severity to Bacon and his friends, 219, 221, 231. Sails for Europe, 233. Bienville, III. 200. Explores the country, 202. Blake, Joseph, II. 172. Bloody Brook, II. 104. Boston founded, I. 356. Antinomian, 388. Its liberality, II. 109. Insurgent, 447. Bourdonnais, La, III. 453. Brackett, Anne, II. 110. Bradford, William, I. 314. Bradstreet, Simon, II. 74. Brebeuf, Father, III. 122. Character, 124. Martyrdom, 140. Bressani, Father, III. 134. Breton, Cape, settled by the French, II. 235. Brown, John and Samuel, I. 349.