228 examples of harmar in sentences

The adjutant at Fort Harmar counted in seven months of 1786-1787, 177 boats descending the Ohio, carrying 2,689 persons, 1,333 horses, 766 cattle, 102 wagons and one phaëton, while still others passed by night uncounted.

The tiny army of the United States was under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Josiah Harmar, with the brevet rank of general.

In October, 1790, Harmar led his troops, nearly four-fifths of which were new levies of militia, against the Indians who had been disturbing the western frontier.

The expedition was a succession of blunders and failures which were due more to the rude and undisciplined character of the material that Harmar had to work with than to his personal incapacity.

Harmar did succeed in destroying five Indian villages with their stores of corn, but their inhabitants had warning enough to escape and were able to take prompt vengeance.

As a result, Harmar marched his troops back again, professing to believe that punishment had been inflicted upon the Indians that would be a severe lesson to them.

General Harmar, enlightened by his own experience, predicted that such an army would certainly be defeated.

Mrs. H.B. Harrington ...5.00 Harmar.

In the last half of the year 1787 there passed by Fort Harmar 146 boats, with 3196 souls, 1371 horses, 165 wagons, 191 cattle, 245 sheep, and 24 hogs.

[Footnote: Harmar Papers, December 9, 1787.]

Letter from Fort Harmar, November 26, 1788.

Harmar took the side of the French Creoles, and warmly denounced the acts of the frontiersmen who had come in among them.

ii., Harmar to Le Grasse and Busseron, June 29, 1787.]

Harmar never made much effort to conceal dislike of the borderers.

The Creoles of the Illinois and Vincennes sent warm letters of welcome to Harmar.

One of the reasons for choosing the mouth of the Muskingum as the site for the town was the neighborhood of Fort Harmar, with its strong Federal garrison, and the spot was but a short distance beyond the line of already existing settlement.

Harmar's speech to the Indians at Vincennes, September 17, 1787.

Lt. Spear to Harmar, June 2, 1788; Hamtranck to Harmar, Aug. 12, 1788.]

Harmar made a circuit and came down along the Scioto, hoping to surprise the Indian camp; but he might as well have hoped to surprise a party of timber wolves.

Harmar yielded, for the home authorities had dwelt much on the necessity of his preventing friction between the regulars and the militia; and he had so little control over the latter, that he was very anxious to keep them good-humored.

Much angered, Harmar gave the command to Hardin, who left the camp next morning with two hundred men, including thirty regulars.

It was a capital mistake of Harmar's to send off a mere detachment on such a business.

The march back was very dreary; and the militia became nearly ungovernable, so that at one time Harmar reduced them to order only by threatening to fire on them with the artillery.

In Volume XXIII., page 169, there is a letter from Knox to General Harmar, dated New York, September 3, 1790.

Among the numerous men whom Wilkinson had complained of was Harmar, who, he said, was not only addicted to drink, but was also a bad disciplinarian.

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