Identifier: ourgreatercountr00nort (find matches)
Title: Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ..
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
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Publisher: Philadelphia, National pub co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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their slumbers to meet a fierceattack of the savages. The latter were re-pulsed after a hard fight, but the whites wereleft in an almost helpless condition. Thelittle they had saved from the flames atMavilla was destroyed in the burning village.Armor and weapons were rendered worth-less, and scarcely any clothing was saved.The troops were forced to resort to dressesof skms and the long moss of the countrywoven into mats. In this condition, theysuffered greatly from the cold. To supplythe weapons destroyed forges were erected,and the swords were retempered and newlances made. Renewing their march the Spaniardspushed on still farther west, and about thesecond of May reached the banks of theMississippi, at a point a short distance belowthe present city of Memphis. They were thefirst white men to gaze upon the mightyflood of this noble river, but De Soto had noadmiration to express for it. It was only anobstacle in his westward march, and wouldrequire greater efforts for its passage than
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