What is "natchitoches"

Usage examples of "natchitoches".

Hodge stated that Colonel Harry Drake, fleeing the ruin of the mutiny he had helped to foment, had been spotted by a native Natchitoches scout eleven miles from the Sabine River, eastern border of the Tejas Free Republic.

When Victor Piles came around crying about the rollicking carriage and dappled nags straining for Tejas down the old Natchitoches road, Hodge agonized over which of his darlings to risk and flaunt in pursuit of the renegade hero of Cleveland and Ashtabula.

He wanted to escape fom the dream and the heat of the march into the cool of the morning and the early fog that had marked each dawn since he had begun walking back toward New Iberia from Natchitoches in northwestern Louisiana.

John was born in Natchitoches in 1815, the year of the Battle of New Orleans.

And then: Hello, hello, Shreveport, Natchitoches, Alexandria sending trains with help to New Iberia.

Louis until late in August, when he was ordered to collect his force at Fort Adams, now Vicksburg, and in September he transferred the troops to Natchitoches on the Red River, to defend the western frontier against threatened invasion by Spaniards beyond the Sabine.

The understanding was that Winslow should conduct the doctor and the ladies from Natchez to New Orleans, leaving Danvers free to march his troops to Natchitoches, while Arlington remained in Natchez to transact the business intrusted to him by Burr.

In August a force actually crossed the Sabine and advanced to Bayou Pierre, near Natchitoches, a hundred and twenty miles west of Natchez.

Louis to Natchez, and presently advanced to Natchitoches at the head of a body of one hundred regulars and five hundred militia.

I have been more than two months on the way from Philadelphia to Natchitoches and have travelled fully fifteen hundred miles.

Swartwout another messenger, as secret and more swift, was dispatched from Natchitoches, bearing to Washington City from the commander-in-chief, a full disclosure of the plans of conspiracy, and fastening the charge of treason on Aaron Burr.

Martinville a backwater, then Natchitoches would by comparison seem the end of the world, a dead-water slough stagnant and without amenities.

A woman at Grand Ecore had given his description while telling of how two of her best horses and thirty head of longhorn cattle had been taken, and news of raids had been brought from Los Adais, an ancient town not far from Natchitoches that had been settled by Spanish priests.

It was thought he was on his way to Natchitoches, though for what reason only God could tell.

Jim Bowie, free now that the fight was over and anxious to be on his way, offered to act as their guide to Natchitoches and was accepted with a bow and a handshake.