Views of Louisiana: Containing Geographical, Statistical and Historical Notices of That Vast and Important Portion of America (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Brackenridge, H. M.

9780656065653: Views of Louisiana: Containing Geographical, Statistical and Historical Notices of That Vast and Important Portion of America (Classic Reprint)

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While the Spaniards were thus successfully pur suing their conquests in Florida, the settlements of what was now called Upper Louisiana, were threa tenedwith a formidable attack of British and Indian auxiliaries from Michilimackinac. They suddenly appeared before St. Louis, and massacred a num ber of the inhabitants in its vicinity, fortunately for those people, General Clark made his appear ance, at this critical moment, at the head of a large force, on which the British suddenly retired, leaving their allies to shift for themselves, and who soon after dispel Sed.

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