Sentence examples for frontier settlements from inspiring English sources

His diabolical assistance allowed them to lay waste to frontier settlements -- and then disappear.

Butler's forces then moved northward to continue the raids along the frontier settlements of New York, eventually leading to a more aggressive American action against the Iroquois.

In the United States the development of variety entertainment was encouraged in frontier settlements as well as in the widely scattered urban centres.

While the war hero-turned-statesman is a trope common to many countries in many eras, it has a particular quality and urgency here, based on our earliest history, when two centuries of Indian wars brought repeated raids on frontier settlements and humiliating failures on the part of the young nation's "protectors" to fend off those attacks or rescue captives.

Native American raids on frontier settlements escalated in the spring and summer of 1764.

McDonald completed the expedition, which met its goal of temporarily relieving western Virginia frontier settlements from Native American attack.

When Jackson arrived in Nashville, the community was still a frontier settlement.

A kind of Russian Dodge City, it was founded by Cossack horsemen in 1794 as a frontier settlement.

The frontier settlement of Hempstead designated it as a grazing and watering area for cattle and, later, for sheep.

Only guided tours are permitted; they are conducted by docents well versed in the lore of the frontier settlement.

A Polish frontier settlement existed there from the 6th to the 10th century; a fortress was then built to protect the town from Bohemian forces.