Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 539
and leadership during the yearsof the Revolutionary War, he was never evenwounded. That he was in dire peril many times,was brave at times even to rashness, are well-known facts. Taking these occasions in theirorder of occurrence, his earliest actual escapefrom death was in his twenty-first year,… … HE SUDDENLY TURNED AND FIRED AT THE YOUNG MAJOR. on foot to return to Virginia, with but one com-panion, Christopher Gist. They were shortlyjoined by an Indian guide, who proved to be on the side of the French, for, finding they were de-termined to go straight ahead and not be luredout of their…
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