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Harold Adams Innis. Peter Pond - Fur Trader and Adventurer
Peter Pond - Fur Trader and Adventurer
Table of Contents
PREFACE
I. EARLY LIFE AND THE ARMY
II. THE APPRENTICE TRADER
(1761-1773)
III. THE MISSISSIPPI
A. THE TRADER (1773-1774)
III. THE MISSISSIPPI
B. THE PEACEMAKER (1774-1775)
IV. THE NORTHWEST COMPANY
A. THE EXPLORER (1775-1778)
IV. THE NORTHWEST COMPANY
B. THE ORGANIZER (1778-1790)
V. THE MAN AND HIS WORK
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Footnote
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Harold Adams Innis
Published by Good Press, 2021
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"About twelve the parties began thare fire and the British put thare plan on fut to march over the works but the lims and tops of the trease on the side for the diek stuck fast in the ground and all pointed at upper end that thay could not git threw them til thay ware at last obliged to quit that plan for three forths ware kild in the atempt but the grater part of the armey lade in the rear on thare fases til nite while the British ware batteling a brest work nine logs thick in som plases which was dun without ye help of canan tho we had as fine an artilrey just at hand as could be in an armey of fifteen thousand men but thay ware of no youse while thay ware lying on thare fases. Just as the sun was seating Abercrombie came from left to rite in the rear of the troops ingaged and ordered a retreat beat and we left the ground with about two thousand two hundred loss (actually over nineteen hundred) as I was informd by an officer who saw the returns of ye nite wounded and mising."
"We ware ordered to regain our boates at the lake side which was dun after traveling all nite so sloley that we fell asleep by the way. About nine or tenn in the morning we were ordered to imbark and cross the lake to the head of Lake George but to sea the confusion thare was the solgers could not find thare one botes but imbarked permisherley (promiscuously) whare ever thay could git in expecting the french at thare heales eavery minnet. We arrived at the head of the lake in a short time—took up our old incampment which was well fortefied."
