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Colonel Pickering makes a bet with him, offering to pay all the expenses if the professor manages to fulfill his boast. Eliza is then taken upstairs to have a bath by Mrs Pearce, the housekeeper, and while this is taking place, Eliza's father, the dustman Alfred Doolittle, arrives to demand compensation for the loss of his daughter.
The White massacre was an engagement between American settlers and a band of Utes and Jicarilla Apaches that occurred in northeastern New Mexico on October 28, 1849. [1] It became notable for the Indians' kidnapping of Mrs. Ann White, who was subsequently killed during an Army rescue attempt a few weeks later.
The Indian Creek massacre was the most significant publicized incident during the Black Hawk War. [33] The killings triggered panic in the settler population who abandoned settlements and sought refuge in frontier forts, such as Fort Dearborn in Chicago. Monuments at the massacre site in Shabbona County Park, the older monument is on the left.
There are two properties in Pearce which are listed in the National Register of Historic Places, they are: Our Lady of Victory Catholic Church, listed on July 21, 2004; reference #04000718 [16] and located on 4th St., between Cedar and Spruce Streets. and the other is the Pearce General Store; listed November 16, 1978, reference #78000541 [17 ...
Nez Perce Creek (the East fork of the Firehole river in 1877). Also known as Hayden's fork (1871), east fork of the Madison River (pre-1871) Officially designated Nez Perce Creek in 1885 during the Arnold Hague Geological Surveys of the park. [23] Nez Perce Ford is the location of Chief Joseph's crossing of the Yellowstone River on August 25, 1877.
The Killough massacre is believed to have been both the largest and last Native American attack on white settlers in East Texas. The massacre took place on October 5, 1838, near Larissa, Texas, in the northwestern part of Cherokee County. There were eighteen victims, including Isaac Killough, Sr., and his extended family (viz. the families of ...
Indian Creek is a stream in the U.S. state of Indiana. [1] It is a tributary of the Tippecanoe River. Indian Creek was so named on account of the area being a favorite camping ground of the Potawatomi Indians. [2]
The Rufus Buck Gang was an outlaw Native American gang whose members were Creek Indian and African American. [1] Their crime spree took place in the Indian Territory of the Arkansas–Oklahoma area from July 30, 1895, through August 4, 1895. Formed by Rufus Buck, the gang consisted also of Lewis Davis, Sam Sampson, Maoma July, and Lucky Davis.