 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - Politics, Practical - 1867 - 524 pages
...committing the most awful ravages. Decisive action became necessary. Gen. Jackson, with his fractured bones just beginning to heal, his arm in a sling, and unable...energies to the raising of an army to rendezvous at Fayetteville, on the borders of Alabama, on the 4th of October, 1813. The varied incidents of the war... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - Presidents - 1867 - 510 pages
...at Fayetteville. No one has ever read this story without a deep feeling of sympathy for John Wood. The Creek Indians had established a strong fort on...one of the bends of the Tallapoosa River, near the centre of Alabama, about fifty miles below Fort Strother. With an army of two thousand men, Gen. Jackson... | |
 | Mecosta County (Mich.) - 1883 - 678 pages
...committing the most awful ravages. Decisive action became necessary. Gen. Jackson, with his fractured bone just beginning to heal, his arm in a sling, and unable...the center of Alabama, about fifty miles below Fort S troth er. With an army of two thousand men, Gen, Jackson traversed the pathless wilderness in a march... | |
 | Governors - 1884 - 846 pages
...committing the most awful ravages. Decisive action became necessary. Gen. Jackson, with his fractured bone just beginning to heal, his arm in a sling, and unable...had established a strong fort on one of the bends of theTallapoosa River, near the center of Alabama, about fifty miles below Fort Strother. With an army... | |
 | Midland County (Mich.) - 1884 - 444 pages
...committing the most awful ravages. Decisive action became necessary. Gen. Jackson, with his fractured bone just beginning to heal, his arm in a sling, and unable...Indians had established a strong fort on one of the bendsof the Tallapoosa River, near the center of Alabama, about fifty miles below Fort Strother. With... | |
 | Isabella County (Mich.) - 1884 - 592 pages
...committing the most awful ravages. Decisive action became necessary. Gen. Jackson, with his fractured lx>ne just beginning to heal, his arm in a sling, and unable...Indians had established a strong fort on one of the bendsof theTallauoosa River, near the center of Alabama, about fifty miles below Fort Strother. With... | |
 | Osceola County (Mich.) - 1884 - 432 pages
...committing the most awful ravages. Decisive action became necessary. Gen. Jackson, with his fractured bone just beginning to heal, his arm in a sling, and unable...energies to the raising of an army to rendezvous at Fayettestille, Alabama. The Creek Indians had established a strong fort on one of the bends of the... | |
 | Governors - 1884 - 436 pages
...committing the most awful ravages. Decisive action became necessary. Gen. Jackson, with his fractured bone just beginning to heal, his arm in a sling, and unable...energies to the raising of an army to rendezvous at Fayettes\4He, Alabama. The Creek Indians had established a strong fort on one of the bends of the Tallapoosa... | |
 | Governors - 1884 - 864 pages
...committing the most awful ravages. Decisive action became necessary. Gen. Jackson, with his fractured bone just beginning to heal, his arm in a sling, and unable...energies to the raising of an army to rendezvous at Fayettes ville, Alabama. The Creek Indians had established a strong fort on one of the bends of the... | |
 | Mahaska County (Iowa) - 1887 - 554 pages
...committing the most awful ravages. Decisive action became necessary. Gen. Jackson, with his fractured bone just beginning to heal, his arm in a sling, and unable...had established a strong fort on one of the bends of theTallapoosa River, near the center of Alabama, about fifty miles below Fort Strother. With an army... | |
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While he was lingering upon a bed of suffering news came that the Indians, who had combined under Tecumseh from Florida to the Lakes, to exterminate the white settlers, were committing the most awful ravages. Decisive action became necessary. Gen. Jackson,... 
