Excerpt from The Hoosac Valley, Its Legends and Its History It is not the number of killed and wounded in a battle, wrote Montesquieu, that determines its historical impor tance. And whether our American battles were fought by the savage or by the Christian, to quote the emphatic lines of Lord Byron. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.