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In the quiet days of peace and security in which we live it is difficult to imagine such a time of excitement as that at which our story opens, in the summer of 1813. From the beginning of that year, the Creek Indians in Alabama and Mississippi had shown a decided disposition to become hostile. In addition to the usual incentives to war which always exist where the white settlements border closely upon Indian territory, there were several special causes operating to bring about a struggle at that time. We were already at war with the British, and British agents were very active in stirring up trouble on our frontiers, knowing that nothing would so surely weaken the Americans as a general outbreak of Indian hostilities. Tecumseh, the great chief, had visited the Creeks, too, and had urged them to go on the war path, threatening them, in the event of their refusal, with the wrath of the Great Spirit. His appeals to their superstition were materially strengthened by the occurrence of an earthquake, which singularly enough, he had predicted, threatening that when he returned to his home he would stamp his foot and shake their houses down.

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Book category Knihy po anglicky Literature & literary studies Anthologies (non-poetry)

• Full title: Big Brother
• Author: George Cary Eggleston
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 128
• EAN: 9781421847290
• ISBN: 9781421847290
• ID: 08413528
• Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society
• Weight: 299 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 140 × 11 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. June 2007

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