Betty B.
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871 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 3d ago
Betty B.’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And then we should, without doubt, defeat them all, but that this could not now be obviated, and that I should be very glad to show them my courage and good will when we should engage in the fight.
As soon as we had landed they began to run for some two hundred paces toward their enemies, and
who stood firmly, not having as yet noticed my companions, who went into the woods with some savages.
Our men began to call me with loud cries, and in order to give me a passageway, they opened in two parts, and put me at their head, where I marched some twenty paces in advance of the rest, and
Until I was within about thirty paces of the enemy.
who at once noticed me, and, halting, gazed at me as I did also at them.
When I saw them making a move to fire at us, I rested my musket against my cheek and aimed directly at one of the three chiefs.
With the same shot two fell to the ground, and one of their men was so wounded that he died some time after.
I had loaded my musket with four balls.
When our side saw this shot so favorable for them, they began to raise such loud cries that one could not have heard it thunder.
Meanwhile, the arrows flew on both sides.
The Iroquois were greatly astonished that two men had been so quickly killed.
Although they were equipped with armor woven from cotton threads.
and with wood which was a proof against their arrows.
This caused great alarm among them.
As I was loading again, one of my companions fired a shot from the woods, which astonished them anew to such a degree that seeing their chiefs dead, they lost courage and took to flight, abandoning their camp and fort and fleeing into the woods, whither I pursued them, killing still more of them.
Our savages also killed several of them and took ten or twelve prisoners.
The remainder escaped with the wounded.
fifteen or sixteen were wounded on our side with arrow shots, but they were soon healed.
After gaining the victory, our men amused themselves by taking a great quantity of Indian corn and some meal from their enemies, also their armor, which they had left behind that they might run better.
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