Identifier: worldsstoryhisto11tapp (find matches)
Title: The world's story; a history of the world in story, song and art, ed. by Eva March Tappan
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Tappan, Eva March, 1854-1930 Ploetz, Karl Julius, 1819-1881 Tillinghast, William Hopkins, 1819-1881 Dresser, Horatio W. (Horatio Willis), b. 1866
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Boston and New York : Houghton Mifflin company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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he Mohawks. When hewas a boy, Sir William Johnson, superintendent of Indianaffairs in the colonies, became interested in him and sent himto school in Connecticut. He joined the Church of England,translated the Prayer Book and parts of the New Testa-ment into the Mohawk language, and at length became anardent missionary to his people. When the Revolutionary War broke out, he took the side ofthe British, and was of great assistance to them as the leaderof their Indian allies in the ferocious border fighting. Hetook part in the Cherry Valley and Minisink Massacresand was the terror of the outlying settlements of New Yorkand Pennsylvania. After the war, however, he did his bestto induce the Indians to live in peace with the whites. Henever forgot his interest in missions, and used the moneywhich he collected on a visit to England in building a,church, the first Episcopal Church erected in Upper Canada. John Fiske speaks of Brant as perhaps the greatestIndian of whom we have any knowledge.
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WHEN TECUMSEH MET GENERAL BROCK (1812) BY WALTER R. NURSEY (General Brock was the foremost defender of Canada inthe War of 1812. He fell at the battle of Queenston Heights,where a monument now stands in his memory. Even his foesheld him in such honor that at the time of his funeral flagswere put at half-mast and a parting salute was fired on theAmerican side of the river as well as on the Canadian. The Editor.) A EEW minutes only had elapsed when Elliott returned.The sentrys challenge caused Brock to look up fromthe table, littered with plans and dispatches. Anotherfigure darkened the doorway. This, sir, said Elliott, isTecumseh, the Shawanesechief of whom you have heard, and who desires to bepresented to you. The general, who had removed the stains of traveland was in uniform, rose to his full height, bowed, ex-tended his hand, and explained in manly fashion thereason for asking that the firing be stopped. The con-trast presented by the two men was striking. The OldWorld and the New,

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