Life of George Washington, Količina 4G. P. Putnam, 1865 - 479 strani |
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... detached to the District of Ninety - Six -Greene posts himself on the Pedee , CHAPTER XVI . Hostile Embarkations to the South - Arnold in Command - Necessitous State of the Country - Washington Urges a Foreign Loan - Mission of Colonel ...
... detached to the District of Ninety - Six -Greene posts himself on the Pedee , CHAPTER XVI . Hostile Embarkations to the South - Arnold in Command - Necessitous State of the Country - Washington Urges a Foreign Loan - Mission of Colonel ...
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... detachment , consisting of one hundred dragoons and between three and four hundred infantry , under Lieutenant- colonel Boskirk , crossed from Staten Island to Trembly's Point , surprised the picket - guard at Elizabethtown , and ...
... detachment , consisting of one hundred dragoons and between three and four hundred infantry , under Lieutenant- colonel Boskirk , crossed from Staten Island to Trembly's Point , surprised the picket - guard at Elizabethtown , and ...
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... detachment reached King's Bridge by nine o'clock the same evening , and boasted that , in this enterprise , they had sustained no other loss than two killed and twenty - three wounded . Of the prisoners many were doubtless farmers and ...
... detachment reached King's Bridge by nine o'clock the same evening , and boasted that , in this enterprise , they had sustained no other loss than two killed and twenty - three wounded . Of the prisoners many were doubtless farmers and ...
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... detachment with all haste to the aid of General Lincoln . He might not arrive in time to pre- vent the fall of Charleston , but he might assist to arrest the pro- gress of the enemy and save the Carolinas . Washington had been put upon ...
... detachment with all haste to the aid of General Lincoln . He might not arrive in time to pre- vent the fall of Charleston , but he might assist to arrest the pro- gress of the enemy and save the Carolinas . Washington had been put upon ...
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... detached by Lincoln to throw up works about nine miles above the town , on the Wando , a branch of Cooper River , and at Lempriere's Point ; and Brigadier - general Huger , * with a force of militia and Continental cavalry , including ...
... detached by Lincoln to throw up works about nine miles above the town , on the Wando , a branch of Cooper River , and at Lempriere's Point ; and Brigadier - general Huger , * with a force of militia and Continental cavalry , including ...
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