Life of George Washington: Together with the Voyages of His Companions, Količina 2George Bell & sons, 1859 - 1752 strani |
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... Island . It is high time to begin with our internal foes , when we are threatened with such severity of chastisement ... Staten Islands ; king's ships at anchor in the bay and harbour , keeping up a suspicious intercourse with the ...
... Island . It is high time to begin with our internal foes , when we are threatened with such severity of chastisement ... Staten Islands ; king's ships at anchor in the bay and harbour , keeping up a suspicious intercourse with the ...
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... Island , Staten Island , and elsewhere , amounted to little more than ten thousand men ; some of those were on the sick list , others absent on command or on furlough ; there were but about eight thousand available and fit for duty ...
... Island , Staten Island , and elsewhere , amounted to little more than ten thousand men ; some of those were on the sick list , others absent on command or on furlough ; there were but about eight thousand available and fit for duty ...
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... Staten Island- Washington's Preparations . THE great aim of the British , at present , was to get posses- sion of New York and the Hudson , and make them the basis of military operations . This they hoped to effect on the arrival of a ...
... Staten Island- Washington's Preparations . THE great aim of the British , at present , was to get posses- sion of New York and the Hudson , and make them the basis of military operations . This they hoped to effect on the arrival of a ...
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... Staten Island announced that forty sail were in sight . They were , in fact , ships from Halifax , bringing between nine and ten thousand of the troops recently expelled from Boston , together with six transports filled with Highland ...
... Staten Island announced that forty sail were in sight . They were , in fact , ships from Halifax , bringing between nine and ten thousand of the troops recently expelled from Boston , together with six transports filled with Highland ...
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... Staten Island , where they landed their troops , and the hill sides were soon whitened with their tents . 6 In the frigate Greyhound , ' one of the four ships which first arrived , came General Howe . He had preceded the fleet , in ...
... Staten Island , where they landed their troops , and the hill sides were soon whitened with their tents . 6 In the frigate Greyhound , ' one of the four ships which first arrived , came General Howe . He had preceded the fleet , in ...
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