 No tongue, says colonel Schuyler, can express the cruelties that were committed. The whole village was instantly in a blaze. Women with child ripped open, and their infants cast into the flames, or dashed against the posts of the doors. Sixty persons...  A Legacy of Historical Gleanings - Side 141875Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | John Marshall - 1805 - 544 sider
...to the ordinary horrors of war. The whole village was instantly in a blaze ; women with child were ripped open, and their infants cast into the flames, or dashed against the posts of the doors. Sixty persons were massacred, twenty. seven carried into captivity, and the rest fled naked, through... | |
 | John Marshall - 1804 - 582 sider
...to the ordinary horrors of war. The whole village was instantly in a blaze ; women with child were ripped open, and their infants cast into the flames, or dashed against the posts of the doors. Sixty persons were massacred, twenty-seven carried into captivity, and the rest fled naked, through... | |
 | Samuel Williams - 1809 - 528 sider
...that part of Newyork, has given the most accurate account of this tragedy. *.* No tongue," says he, "can express the cruelties that were committed. The...flames, or dashed against the posts of the doors. Sixty persons perished in the massacre, and twenty seven were carried into captivity. The rest fled... | |
 | Henry Trumbull - 1812 - 204 sider
...other provocation or incitement than brutal lust and wantonness of barbarity !— pregnant women were ripped open and their infants cast into the flames or dashed against the posts of the doors!! — such monsters of barbarity ought certainly to be excluded from all the privileges of human nature,... | |
 | William Smith - 1815 - 520 sider
...inhuman butcheries were committed. Not only the Village was set fire to, but women with child were riped open and their infants cast into the flames or dashed against the doors. Sixty men, women, and children were put to death in cold blood, and twenty-seven carried off... | |
 | Benjamin Trumbull - 1818 - 574 sider
...committed. The inhabitants were instantly slain, and the whole village was in flames. Pregnant women were ripped open, and their infants cast into the flames or dashed against the posts of the doors. Sixty persons perished in the massacre, and twenty were captivated. The rest of the inhabitants escaped... | |
 | Jedidiah Morse, Elijah Parish - 1820 - 332 sider
...the enemy entered their houses, and began the perpetration of the most inhuman barbarities. No tongue can express the cruelties that were committed. The...into the flames, or dashed against the posts of the door. Sixty persons perished in the massacre, and 27 were carried into captivity. The rest fled naked... | |
 | Daniel Blowe - 1820 - 788 sider
...into small parlies of six or seven men, entered the houses and commenced the most inhuman barbarities. The whole village was instantly in a blaze, women...flames, or dashed against the posts of the doors. Sixty persons perished in the massacre, and twenty-seven were carried into captivity ; the rest flad... | |
 | John Marshall - 1824 - 500 sider
...much to the ordinary horrors of war. The whole village was instantly in flames; pregnant women were ripped open and their infants cast into the flames, or dashed against the posts of the doors. Sixty persons were massacred, twenty- seven carried into captivity, and those who escaped fled naked,... | |
 | 1829 - 348 sider
...their beds, the enemv entered their houses, and began the perpetration of the most inhuman barbarities. No tongue, says colonel Schuyler, can express the...flames, or dashed against the posts of the doors. Sixty persons perished in the massacre, and twenty-seven were carried into captivity. The rest fled... | |
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