The first village was burned with no show of resistance, and its four hundred inhabitants were either tomahawked or kept for torture.
More than two hundred men, women, and children were tomahawkedin cold blood or carried off to a lingering death, the lurid flames of the burning seigneury telling their bitter tale to the watchers at Montreal.
Defenceless men, women, and children were tomahawked in cold blood, or reserved for more leisurely torment.
Thirty inhabitants were tomahawked on the spot, the houses burned, and one hundred prisoners carried off; but news had gone like wildfire to neighboring settlements, and Hertel was pursued by two hundred Englishmen.
Children were dashed to pieces before their parents' eyes; aged parents tomahawked before struggling sons and daughters; fathers held powerless that they might witness the tortures wreaked on wives and daughters.
The forts on Licking river attacked by 600 Indians and Canadians under colonel Bird, with 6 field pieces; they took all the inhabitants captives, and loaded them with heavy baggage; such as failed on the journey were tomahawked and scalped.
The houses in which the helpless wounded lay were set on fire, and those who were too feeble to continue the march were shot ortomahawked on the road.
There was an opening of rum barrels and a scene of drunkenness in which some of the prisoners had their share; while others tried to escape in the confusion and were tomahawked by the excited savages.
In one of the expeditions against the Sioux, he not only performed wonderful deeds of daring, but tomahawked several of his own warriors, because, in his judgment, they showed a timidity in attacking the common foe.
He fell sick while tramping through the woods with the Indians, and they have either tomahawked or left him to die.
Then as he knelt in prayer beside the shallow pit, one of the six Wyandots tomahawked him.
But they never met again, and Fowler could only suppose that his cautious friend was soon tomahawked and scalped with the other wounded.
On the Virginia side the murderers made three of the Indians drunk and tomahawked them, and when they had tricked the others into discharging their guns at a mark, and so had them defenseless, they ruthlessly shot them down.
The Americans were tomahawked and scalped where they fell; one of the savages told afterwards that he plied his hatchet until he could hardly lift his arm.
They then took to the woods directly west of the village; but here also were savages lying in wait, and it is said that nearly a hundred were tomahawked and scalped before they had gone as many yards.
A few of the strongest were marched off with the savages toward Malden; but as one by one they became exhausted, they were mercilessly tomahawked and scalped.
In the course of the fight, an Indian had made his way to the wagons, and, springing into one in which twelve children had been placed, tomahawked every one of them.
They've tomahawked 'em all, and pitched 'em overboard.
But I suppose it was her last chance, and the old man would havetomahawked me if I hadn't taken her.
He was tomahawked almost to pieces and his heart cut out.
He was quietly tomahawked one night as he lay asleep, and his despised remains dragged out and cast into the Whenuakura River that ran below the village.
Colonel Dudley was severely wounded, and afterward tomahawked and scalped.
To have shot or tomahawked him would have been but a small gratification to that of satiating their revenge by burning him at a slow fire, in presence of all the Indians of their village.
To the shame of our white race, it is recorded that “they tomahawked and scalped him: and afterwards flaying both him and his companion, they converted their skins into saddle-seats and pouches!
John, however, had hung up his hat as a mark to find the place, and led them back the way he had come, where they found the tomahawked Indian lying in his blood.
The other two children were found hidden in a bed, but also tomahawked and scalped.
Three soldiers, who were outside the fort, rushed for the gate, but they were tomahawked before they could reach it.
The man escaped, but the boy was tomahawked and scalped.
The sentry had been tomahawked as he stood at arms at the gate; and the sergeant of the little company was killed while working in the garden of the garrison outside the stockade.
The whites in turn crossed the Ohio in reprisal, burnt the Indian towns, tomahawked women and children, destroyed corn-fields, and were as unrelenting and barbarous in their revenge as their savage foes.
He has been bound on the march with intolerable thongs, he has almost perished under his burdens, he has been tomahawked in the face; he is now to be roasted alive.
A Mohawk, seeing one of these men still unarmed, leaped over the barricade, tomahawked the nearest Canadian, snatched his gun, and darted back unhurt.
The English loss was chiefly in the ambush of the morning, where the killed greatly outnumbered the wounded, because those who fell and could not be carried away weretomahawked by Dieskau's Indians.
He took from one of them a young officer whom the savage had seized; upon which several other Indians immediately tomahawked their prisoners, lest they too should be taken from them.
If they hear us afore we're ready to shoot, the lass'll be tomahawked quicker'n lightnin'.
Wetzel went after these last, tomahawked them, and brought Mabel home.
Those whose taste led them to inflict a more cruel and savage death, led their victims to the gateway, where, under the eye of general Proctor and his officers, they were coolly tomahawked and scalped.
He was deliberately tomahawkedby a young man, and his body was then placed upon the blazing faggots and consumed.
About forty of these unfortunate men were tomahawked by the Indians, several hours after their surrender.
They set off, and after travelling as far as the river Aux Sables, they were met by a fresh band of Indians, who shot the Captain upon his horse, and tomahawked and scalped him!
There was but one other instance of any person being tomahawked in this engagement; which was a private soldier of Capt.
He succeeded in bringing them into the fort; but in the mean while a party of Indians had tomahawked their sick, left in the boats, and plundered their baggage.
Snelling, of the regulars, soon after made a desperate charge at the head of his company, with success, losing one man, who wastomahawked by a wounded Indian.
The inhabitants had not time to rouse themselves from sleep before they were tomahawked or captured.
Every one knows the horrible story of Miss McCrea, the young lady who was on the way to be married to her lover in the British army, and who was tomahawked and scalped by the Indians in whose charge she was travelling.
And I suppose he would have done it, if he had not been tomahawked and scalped.
We knew nothing of Tecumseh's swift red warriors, except that scarcely a year had passed since his allies had tomahawked women and children of the garrison on the sand teach at Chicago.
It would not have done to shoot his rifle, but he could have tomahawked him in an instant; hence it was plain that he desired only to take him prisoner.
Instead of the bridal party, the well spread table, the ringing laughter, and the sounding feet of buxom dancers, we found a pile of ashes and six or seven ghastly corpsestomahawked and scalped.
After traveling a few hours the savages bent down a young hickory, sharpened it, seized the child, scalped it and spitted it upon the tree; they then scalped and tomahawked the mother and left her for dead.
One of them got away crippled, but we could not follow him because we discovered that they had a white girl as captive, and one of the red devils, thinking we were a rescuing party, had tomahawked her.
We trailed the Indians and, coming up on them after dark, we tomahawked them.
It was just at the spot where a shrine has been recently elected to honor the memory of Isaac Jogues and of his companion Rene Goupil, both of whom were tomahawked in that vicinity by the Mohawks.
The victors, following the custom of the savages, tomahawkedand scalped the Loups left on the place, and then took care to bury those of their own people who had been slain in the fight.
She may have knelt to pray on the very spot where Jogues himself was tomahawked at the door of the Bear Chief's deserted lodge.
As soon as the fort had capitulated and the firing had ceased, Hiokatoo with the help of a few Indians tomahawked every wounded American while earnestly begging with uplifted hands for quarters.
Your life, my child, I think will be spared; but we shall probably be tomahawked here in this lonesome place by the Indians.
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