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Title: Thrilling adventures among the Indians: comprising the most remarkable personal narratives of events in the early Indian wars, as well as of incidents in the recent Indian hostilities in Mexico and Texas
Year: 1850 (1850s)
Authors: Frost, John, 1800-1859
Subjects: Indians of North America Indian captivities
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. W. Bradley Lowell, L. P. Crown
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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the fort, and yet theywere within thirty steps of the fort at eleven oclock inthe morning, before they were noticed. The sentrythen gave the cry of Indians ! and they immedi-ately set up a most terrible war-whoop, and rushedinto the gate with inconceivable rapidity, and gotwithin it before the people of the fort had any oppor-tunity of shutting it. This decided their fate. MajorBeasly was shot through the belly, near the gate. Hecalled to the men to take care of the ammunition andto retreat to the house. He went himself to a kitchen,where it is supposed he must have been burnt The fort was originally square. Major Beasly hadit enlarged, by extending the lines of two sides aboutfifty feet and putting up a new side, into which thegate was removed. The old line of pickets stood, andthe Indians, upon rushing into the gate, obtainedpossession of this additional part, and through theport-holes of the old line of pickets fired on the peo-ple who held the interior. On the opposite side of the
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MASSACRE AT MIMMSs FORT. 289 fort, an offset or bastion was made round the backgate, whicli, being open on the outside, was also takenpossession of by the Indians, who, with the axes whichlay scattered about, immediately began to cut downthe gate. There was a large body of Indians, thoughthey did not probably exceed four hundred. Ourpeople seemed to sustain the attack with undauntedspirit. They took possession of the port-holes in theother lines of the fort, and fired on the Indians whoremained in the field. Some of the Indians got onthe block-house at one of the corners, but after firinga good deal down upon the people, they were dis-lodged ; they succeeded, however, in setting fire to ahouse near the pickets, from which it was communi-cated to the kitchen, and from thence to the maindwelling-house. They attempted to do it with burnving arrows, but failed. When the people of the fortsaw that the Indians retained full possession of theouter court, that the gate continued open, that th

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