Crossword-Solution: NIAGRA 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 7

The garrisons at Forts Porter and Niagra are being strengthened, and I could see the Yankee militia drilling as I rode to the village." "Hurrah!" shouted the thoughtless boy, "won't it be fun? We'll show them how the Britishers can fight." "God grant, my son," said the farmer solemnly, "that we may not see more fighting than we wish.

The winter of 1679 La Salle passed at a post above Niagra Falls, where he built his famous (ship?), the "Griffin," in which he sailed the Great Lakes to Lake Michigan, (and?) which he sent back laden with (furs?) in the hope of satisfying the loans of his creditors, while he himself proceeded westward.

These are: Blanchard, Babcock, Banner, Brown Rotary, Cottage, Cole, Duplex, Economist, Erie, Gutman, Hill, Hancock & Bennett, Jenks, Lockmar, La Favorite, Learned, Leggett, McCoy, McCardy, Medallion, McArthur & Co., Monopoly, Moreau, Mack, Niagra, New Cannaan, Orphean, Pride-of-the-West, Seamen & Guiness, Surprise, Stackpole, Shanks, Stanford, Troy, Utica, United States Family, Weaver, Wagner, and Williams.

Her breeath, wheer tru wit so grasefully flows, Has the beutiful scent of the pink and the rose; There’s no nymph from the East to Niagra Fall, To ekwall Rebekka o’ Riddlesden Hall.

Though reluctant to serve against his countrymen, yet at Queenstown's Heights he drove the American army over the heights into the Niagra river, for which he received the title of Baronet.