Life of George Washington, Količina 4G.P. Putnam & Company, 1857 |
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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 ...
... 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 ...
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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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... to effect a safe return to the lines with their prisoners , some of whom were so badly wounded that they had to be left at different farm - houses on the road . The detachment reached King's Bridge by nine o'clock the same evening , and.
... to effect a safe return to the lines with their prisoners , some of whom were so badly wounded that they had to be left at different farm - houses on the road . The detachment reached King's Bridge by nine o'clock the same evening , and.
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... detach- ment with all haste to the aid of General Lincoln . He might not arrive in time to prevent the fall of Charles- ton , but he might assist to arrest the progress of the enemy and save the Carolinas . Washington had been put upon ...
... detach- ment with all haste to the aid of General Lincoln . He might not arrive in time to prevent the fall of Charles- ton , but he might assist to arrest the progress 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 Lempri- ere'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 Lempri- ere's Point ; and Brigadier - general Huger , * with a force of militia and Continental cavalry , including ...
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