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In the slaughter at the battle of the Great Bend of the Tallapoosie, known by the different terms of the Great Bend, the Horse Shoe & Tohapeka, x Captain Shoe Boots, who had, as Benefactor used to say "covered himself with glory," had also covered himself with wounds, & was no where to be found. Numbers of troops, Indian as well as American, were lounging in the forest among the bushes. [[3 words scratched out]] | In the slaughter at the battle of the Great Bend of the Tallapoosie, known by the different terms of the Great Bend, the Horse Shoe & Tohapeka, x Captain Shoe Boots, who had, as Benefactor used to say "covered himself with glory," had also covered himself with wounds, & was no where to be found. Numbers of troops, Indian as well as American, were lounging in the forest among the bushes. [[3 words scratched out]] | ||
"Poor Shoe Boots" cried | "Poor Shoe Boots" cried one, "I'm sorry the old fellow's silenced at last. | ||
"Aye," [[The -scratched out]] said another, "the old cock has got to [[word scratched out]] | "Aye," [[The -scratched out]] said another, "the old cock has got to [[word scratched out]] the end of his crowing." | ||
X Drake's Book of the Indians, B.iv. p. 55. | X Drake's Book of the Indians, B.iv. p. 55. | ||
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word scratched out On his route to the Battle of the Horse Shoe Bend, he is said to have met Gen. Jackson and to have stopped to make him a speech. "unclear Me crow like cock" said he to the Commander in Chief, "but us chicken heard me." Then, clapping one hand on his back, and the other on the back of his head, "No shoot him back" added Shoe Boots proudly, & changing his hands to his forehead & his breast, "but shoot him here."
In the slaughter at the battle of the Great Bend of the Tallapoosie, known by the different terms of the Great Bend, the Horse Shoe & Tohapeka, x Captain Shoe Boots, who had, as Benefactor used to say "covered himself with glory," had also covered himself with wounds, & was no where to be found. Numbers of troops, Indian as well as American, were lounging in the forest among the bushes. 3 words scratched out
"Poor Shoe Boots" cried one, "I'm sorry the old fellow's silenced at last.
"Aye," The -scratched out said another, "the old cock has got to word scratched out the end of his crowing."
X Drake's Book of the Indians, B.iv. p. 55.