2-710-084 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Puritans Barricading Their House Against Indians', (1877). European settlers colonised the east coast of what is now the United States in the early 17th century. They fought with the local Native Americans whose land they had invaded. From "Our Country: a Household History for All Readers, from the Discovery of America to the Present Time", Volume 1, by Benson J. Lossing. [Johnson & Miles, New York, 1877]