Life of Daniel Boone, the Great Western Hunter and PioneerHartley, Cecil B.
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Life of Daniel Boone, the Great Western Hunter and Pioneer
Hartley, Cecil B.
Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820; Frontier and pioneer life -- Kentucky; Pioneers -- Kentucky -- Biography
Meantime, the other settlements in Kentucky had suffered attacks
from the Indians. Logan's Fort was invested by a force of one hundred
Indians on the 20th of May, 1777, and after sustaining a vigorous
siege for several days, was finally relieved by the timely arrival of
a reinforcement commanded by Colonel Bowman. On the 7th of March, 1777,
the fort at Harrodsburg, then called Harrodstown, was assailed by a body
of Indians, but they were speedily driven off, one of their number being
killed. The whites had four men wounded, one of whom afterward died of
his wounds.
[Footnote 25: Peck. "Life of Daniel Boone."]
[Footnote 26: Butler. "History of Kentucky."]
[Footnote 27: Peck. "Life of Daniel Boone."]
[Footnote 28: Mr. Peck mentions the spring of 1776, as the date of the
arrival at Boonesborough of Colonel Richard Callaway, and an intimate
friend of Boone, with his family, and the family of Benjamin Logan, who
had returned for them the preceding autumn.]
[Footnote 29: Peck.]
[Footnote 30: Gallagher.]
CHAPTER XI.
Arrival of George Rogers Clark in Kentucky--Anecdote of his
conversation with Ray--Clark and Jones chosen as delegates for the
Colonies to the Virginia Legislature--Clark's important services in
obtaining a political organization for Kentucky, and an abundant
supply of gunpowder from the government of Virginia--Great labor
and difficulty in bringing the powder to Harrodstown--Clark's
expedition against Kaskaskias--Surprise and capture of their
fort--Perilous and difficult march to Vincennes--Surprise and
capture of that place--Extension of the Virginian
settlements--Erection of Fort Jefferson.
Among the most celebrated pioneers of the West, was General George
Rogers Clark, who, at the time we are now writing of, bore the rank of
Major. Anxious for the protection of the Western settlements, he was
already planning his celebrated conquest of the British posts in the
northwest.
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