Identifier: centennialannive00mccl (find matches)
Title: The centennial anniversary of the city of Hamilton, Ohio
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: McClung, David Waddle, 1831- (from old catalog) ed
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Publisher: Hamilton, Ohio (Cincinnati, The Lawrence printing and publishing company)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Britain, who were inciting the Indians to their deeds of savage warfare.Had these plans succeeded, there would have been no city of Hamilton, noCentennial Celebration and this introduction to the Souvenir Volume, whichcommemorates one of the most gorgeous, patriotic and successful civic andindustrial displays ever presented to the American people, would not havebeen written. The events that lead to the building of Fort Hamilton by General St.Clair in September 1791, his subsequent defeat that year, and the greatvictory of General Wayne three years later, are of sufficient historic interestto bear repeating here. They can not be too often told, nor too firmly im-pressed upon the minds and hearts of we, their descendants. To understand them fully it is necessary to review the condition of thecountry prior to, and during the war of Independence. While France maintained her power in North America, the Indians weredivided in their allegiance between that country and England, or the British
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GEN. ARTHUR ST, CLAIR, THE CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY OF HAMILTON, O. 15 Colonies, which represented her in this country. The fall of Quebec forever extinguished French power and influence inCanada, and left the British authorities free to control and influence the In-dians. How well they succeeded is told in the awful burnings, scalpings andmassacres of the Revolutionary war. It is a record that shocked the civilizedworld, made the horrors of war more barbarous and cruel than was ever be-fore known to the civilized nations, and drew from Lord Chatham thatfierce and eloquent denunciation, in the British House of Lords, famed where-ever the English language is spoken. The treaty of peace in 1783 by which our independence was securedand acknowledged by Great Britain, and the nations of Continental Europe,left the country exhausted and impoverished by the long and unequalstruggle. Good faith on the part of England demanded that her garrisons,occupying the various posts on American soil, shou

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