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Great Events in the History of North and South America — John Shaqi

Great Events in the History of North and South AmericaGoodrich, Charles A. (Charles Augustus)

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Great Events in the History of North and South America

Name: Great Events in the History of North and South America
Author: Goodrich, Charles A. (Charles Augustus)

Goodrich, Charles A. (Charles Augustus)

North America -- History; South America -- History; United States -- History

Plymouth; Massachusetts; Connecticut; New Haven; New Hampshire;
        Rhode Island; Maine; Vermont--Character of the Early
        Settlers,                                                     61

                 III. MIDDLE AND SOUTHERN SETTLEMENTS.

    New York; New Jersey; Delaware; Maryland; N. Carolina; S.
        Carolina; Georgia; Pennsylvania,                              96

                 III.--INDIANS: THEIR TRIBES AND WARS.

                           I. INDIAN TRIBES.

    General Division; Tribes in the Central and Southern parts of New
        England; Tribes in the Northern parts; East of Lake Erie and
        South of Lake Ontario; Southern Tribes,                      104

                  II. ORIGIN OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS.

    Various Speculations on the subject; Opinions of Voltaire, of Rev.
        Thos. Thorowgood, Dr. Boudinot, Roger Williams, Hubbard, Thos.
        Morton, John Josselin, Cotton Mather, Dr. Mitchell, Dr.
        Swinton,                                                     109

                       III. VIRGINIA INDIAN WARS.

    Early Troubles of the English with the Indians; Power and Cruelty
        of Powhatan; his apparent Friendship for the Colonists;
        Treacherous Conduct; Kindness of Pocahontas; Inhuman Conduct
        of Lord De la War; Captivity of Pocahontas; Cruel Massacre of
        the Whites; Opecancanough; Troubles with Totopotomoi; Anecdote
        of Jack-of-the-feather,                                      113

                  IV. PLYMOUTH COLONY AND THE INDIANS.

    Early Rencontre at Plymouth; Friendly Intercourse established by
        means of Samoset; Kindness of Squanto; Intercourse with
        Massasoit; Contemplated Massacre defeated; Caunbitant;
        Hobomok,                                                     125

                      V. ENGLISH AND NARRAGANSETS.

    Territory of the Narragansets; Canonicus their Sachem; his mode of
        Challenging the English to War; Union proposed between the
        Pequods and Narragansets; how Defeated; Haughty Bearing of
        Miantonimoh; Accused of a Conspiracy against the English;
        Accusations repelled; Peace concluded between him and
        Massachusetts; War between Uncas and Miantonimoh; the latter
        captured, and delivered to the English; how disposed of;
        Character of Uncas; Troubles with the Narragansets under
        Ninigret; Expedition against him; its Issue,                 142

                            VI. PEQUOD WAR.

    Territory of the Pequods; their Character; Sassacus; his Hatred of
        the English; Cruelties practiced towards them; War declared by
        Connecticut; Expedition of Captain Mason; Surprise and
        Destruction of the Fort; Further Prosecution of the War;
        Consequences resulting from it,                              153

                           VII. PHILIP'S WAR.

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