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Crawford's Defeat by the Indians, the Glossary

"Crawford’s Defeat by the Indians" is an early American folk ballad principally written by Doctor John Knight, survivor of the 1782 Crawford Expedition.^[1]

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American Antiquarian Society

The American Antiquarian Society (AAS), located in Worcester, Massachusetts, is both a learned society and a national research library of pre-twentieth-century American history and culture.

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The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was a military conflict that was part of the broader American Revolution, in which American Patriot forces organized as the Continental Army and commanded by George Washington defeated the British Army.

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Arthur St. Clair

Major General Arthur St.

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Banjo guitar

Banjo guitar, also known as banjitar or ganjo, is a six-string banjo tuned in the standard tuning of a six-string guitar (E2-A2-D3-G3-B3-E4 from lowest to highest strings).

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Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms

"Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms" is a popular song written by the Irish poet Thomas Moore, setting new lyrics to a traditional Irish air that can be traced back into the 18th century.

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Bodhrán

The bodhrán (plural bodhráin) is a frame drum used in Irish music ranging from in diameter, with most drums measuring.

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Broadside ballad

A broadside (also known as a broadsheet) is a single sheet of inexpensive paper printed on one side, often with a ballad, rhyme, news and sometimes with woodcut illustrations.

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Brown County, Ohio

Brown County is a county in the U.S. state of Ohio.

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Brown University

Brown University is a private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island.

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Captain (armed forces)

The army rank of captain (from the French capitaine) is a commissioned officer rank historically corresponding to the command of a company of soldiers.

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Cello

The violoncello, often simply abbreviated as cello, is a bowed (sometimes plucked and occasionally hit) string instrument of the violin family.

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Cliché

A cliché is a saying, idea, or element of an artistic work that has become overused to the point of losing its original meaning or effect, even to the point of being weird, irritating, or bland, especially when at some earlier time it was considered meaningful or novel.

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College of William & Mary

The College of William & Mary in Virginia (abbreviated as W&M), is a public research university in Williamsburg, Virginia.

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Crawford expedition

The Crawford expedition, also known as the Sandusky expedition and Crawford's Defeat, was a 1782 campaign on the western front of the American Revolutionary War, and one of the final operations of the conflict.

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David Williamson (soldier)

David Williamson (1752–1814) was a mass murderer and colonel in the Pennsylvania Militia during the American Revolutionary War.

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English people

The English people are an ethnic group and nation native to England, who speak the English language, a West Germanic language, and share a common ancestry, history, and culture.

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Fiddle

A fiddle is a bowed string musical instrument, most often a violin.

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Fordham University

Fordham University is a private Jesuit research university in New York City.

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Frank Cowan

Frank Cowan (December 11, 1844 – February 12, 1905) was an American lawyer, medical doctor, writer, and secretary to U.S. President Andrew Johnson.

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George Washington

George Washington (February 22, 1732, 1799) was an American Founding Father, military officer, and politician who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797.

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Guitar

The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with some exceptions) and typically has six or twelve strings.

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Gustave Rosenthal

Gustavus Heinrich de Rosenthal (1753–1829) was a Baltic German soldier and member of the Baltic nobility born in Vaimõisa, present-day Estonia, with the Title of Baron and last name of von Wetter-Rosenthal, a junior line of the von Wetter-Tegerfelden (von Wetter-Tegervelt).

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John B. McClelland

John B. McClelland (1734–1782) was an officer in the American Revolutionary War.

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Lorain, Ohio

Lorain is a city in Lorain County, Ohio, United States.

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Major (rank)

Major is a senior military officer rank used in many countries.

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Manuscript

A manuscript (abbreviated MS for singular and MSS for plural) was, traditionally, any document written by hand or typewritten, as opposed to mechanically printed or reproduced in some indirect or automated way.

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Metre (music)

In music, metre (British spelling) or meter (American spelling) refers to regularly recurring patterns and accents such as bars and beats.

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Mingo

The Mingo people are an Iroquoian group of Native Americans, primarily Seneca and Cayuga, who migrated west from New York to the Ohio Country in the mid-18th century, and their descendants.

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Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans, sometimes called American Indians, First Americans, or Indigenous Americans, are the Indigenous peoples native to portions of the land that the United States is located on.

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Northern Illinois University

Northern Illinois University (NIU) is a public research university in DeKalb, Illinois.

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Northwest Territory

The Northwest Territory, also known as the Old Northwest and formally known as the Territory Northwest of the River Ohio, was formed from unorganized western territory of the United States after the American Revolution.

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Northwestern Confederacy

The Northwestern Confederacy, or Northwestern Indian Confederacy, was a loose confederacy of Native Americans in the Great Lakes region of the United States created after the American Revolutionary War.

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Ohio County, West Virginia

Ohio County is a county located in the Northern Panhandle of the U.S. state of West Virginia, and forms part of the Wheeling metropolitan area.

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Ohio River

The Ohio River is a river in the United States.

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Percussion instrument

A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument.

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Perrysville, Ohio

Perrysville is a village in Ashland County, Ohio, United States.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia, colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the nation, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census.

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Piccolo

The piccolo (Italian for 'small') is a half-size flute and a member of the woodwind family of musical instruments.

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Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh is a city in and the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Samuel Preston Bayard

Samuel Preston Bayard (April 10, 1908, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – January 10, 1997, in State College, Pennsylvania) was an American folklorist and musicologist.

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Sandusky River

The Sandusky River (saandusti; Potakihiipi) is a tributary to Lake Erie in north-central Ohio in the United States.

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Shawnee

The Shawnee are a Native American people of the Northeastern Woodlands.

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Singing

Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice.

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Spoon (musical instrument)

Spoons can be played as a makeshift percussion instrument, or more specifically, an idiophone related to the castanets.

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St. Clair's defeat

St.

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Stanza

In poetry, a stanza (from Italian stanza) is a group of lines within a poem, usually set off from others by a blank line or indentation.

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Thomas Gaddis

Thomas Gaddis (1742–1834) was a militia officer in the American Revolutionary War.

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Time signature

A time signature (also known as meter signature, metre signature, and measure signature) is a convention in Western music notation that specifies how many note values of a particular type are contained in each measure (bar).

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Tin whistle

The tin whistle, also known as the penny whistle, is a simple six-holed woodwind instrument.

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Tories (British political party)

The Tories were a loosely organised political faction and later a political party, in the Parliaments of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom.

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Triple metre

Triple metre (or Am. triple meter, also known as triple time) is a musical metre characterized by a primary division of 3 beats to the bar, usually indicated by 3 (simple) or 9 (compound) in the upper figure of the time signature, with, and being the most common examples.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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University of Arizona

The University of Arizona (Arizona, U of A, UArizona, or UA) is a public land-grant research university in Tucson, Arizona.

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University of Delaware

The University of Delaware (colloquially known as UD, UDel, or Delaware) is a privately governed, state-assisted land-grant research university located in Newark, Delaware.

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Upper Sandusky, Ohio

Upper Sandusky is a city in and the county seat of Wyandot County, Ohio, United States, along the upper Sandusky River.

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Wakatomika

Wakatomika was the name of two 18th century Shawnee villages in what is now the U.S. state of Ohio.

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Wisconsin Historical Society

The Wisconsin Historical Society (officially the State Historical Society of Wisconsin) is simultaneously a state agency and a private membership organization whose purpose is to maintain, promote and spread knowledge relating to the history of North America, with an emphasis on the state of Wisconsin and the trans-Allegheny West.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crawford's_Defeat_by_the_Indians

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See also

1782 in music

1782 songs

Songs about Native Americans

Songs about military officers

Songs of the American Revolutionary War

References