 | 1857 - 398 Seiten
...under Sir William Johnson, in whose hands it remained until 1796, when it was evacuated and given up to the United States. On the 19th of December, 1813,...the Americans. This old fort is as much noted for being the theater of tyranny and crime as for the scenes of military exploits. While in the hands of... | |
 | John Disturnell - 1857 - 412 Seiten
...under Sir William Johnson, in whose hands it remained until 1796, when it was evacuated and given up to the United States. On the 19th of December, 1813,...the Americans. This old fort is as much noted for being the theater of tyranny and crime as for the scenes of military exploits. While in the hands of... | |
 | John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - 1861 - 792 Seiten
...though there is not known to be any existing authority to prove the charge. In 1796, it was surreudered to the United States. On the 19th of "December, 1813,...again surrendered to the Americans. This old fort is аз much noted for enormity and crime as for any good ever derived from it by the nation in occupation.... | |
 | 1864 - 352 Seiten
...under Sir William Johnson, in whose hands it remained until 1796, when it was evacuated and given up to the United States. On the 19th of December, 1813,...the Americans. This old fort is as much noted for being the theater of tyranny and crime as for the scenes of military exploits. While in the hands of... | |
 | Peter Augustus Porter - 1896 - 98 Seiten
...century, and during the early years of this century lived at Fort Niagara. Another statement of his that " this old fort is as much noted for enormity and crime...good ever derived from it by the nation in occupation " is probably not far from the truth. As improvements and extensions were made in the fortifications,... | |
 | New York (State) Commissioners of the State Reservation at Niagara - 1903 - 1754 Seiten
...and during the early years of this century lived at Fort Niagara. Another statement of his that '' this old fort is as much noted for enormity and crime...good ever derived from it by the nation in occupation " is probably not far from the truth. As improvements were made in the fortifications. Fort Niagara... | |
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... Niagara. In 1679, M. De Salle, the explorer of the Mississippi, in the service of France, inclosed the spot on which the fort was here built in 1725, by palisades. In 1759 it was taken by the British, under Sir William Johnson, in whose hands it remained... 