A History of the American Revolution: Comprehending All the Principal Events Both in the Field and in the Cabinet, Količina 1F. Betts, 1822 |
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Stran 137
... Island - Instructions of the town of Petersham to their constitu- ents - General feeling of the people on the first ... long detained from publick duties by ill health , whose mind had suffered almost as much as his body , and who had been ...
... Island - Instructions of the town of Petersham to their constitu- ents - General feeling of the people on the first ... long detained from publick duties by ill health , whose mind had suffered almost as much as his body , and who had been ...
Stran 336
... Long Island , separated from Sullivan's Island to the East by a small creek . Two of the ships , in a few days afterwards , passed Charleston bar , having been first obliged to take out their guns . This was follow- ed by a Proclamation ...
... Long Island , separated from Sullivan's Island to the East by a small creek . Two of the ships , in a few days afterwards , passed Charleston bar , having been first obliged to take out their guns . This was follow- ed by a Proclamation ...
Stran 340
... Long Island , separated from Sullivan's Island , as has been observed , only by a narrow creek , easily fordable in several places . Opposite to them on the east end of Sullivan's island was Colonel Thompson with about seven hundred men ...
... Long Island , separated from Sullivan's Island , as has been observed , only by a narrow creek , easily fordable in several places . Opposite to them on the east end of Sullivan's island was Colonel Thompson with about seven hundred men ...
Stran 379
... Long Island , when he expected the enemy to storm them , is an example of this kind . It occurred at a period when his force was greatly overrated , and when the whole popula- tion of the country were awaiting in breathless anxiety ...
... Long Island , when he expected the enemy to storm them , is an example of this kind . It occurred at a period when his force was greatly overrated , and when the whole popula- tion of the country were awaiting in breathless anxiety ...
Stran 403
... Long Island , for the commencement of the campaign , the Americans threw up a line of entrenchments and redoubts on the side of the island next the city , with the hope of deterring general Howe from gaining the heights AMERICAN ...
... Long Island , for the commencement of the campaign , the Americans threw up a line of entrenchments and redoubts on the side of the island next the city , with the hope of deterring general Howe from gaining the heights AMERICAN ...
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abandoned appointed arms Arnold arrived artillery Assembly attack attempt battle body Boston Britain British British army camp Carleton cause Colonel Colonies Commander in Chief Committee common conduct Congress considered Continental Congress continued Crown Point declared defence determined duty effect enemy England feelings fire fleet force Fort Duquesne Fort Washington friends Gage garrison Governour Hessians honour House hundred immediately important inhabitants justice King Kingsbridge land Legislature letter liberty Long Island Lord Lord Cornwallis Lord Dunmore Lord North Lordship Majesty Majesty's Massachusetts measures ment military militia Ministers Ministry nature neral never New-York North North River occasion officers Parliament party passed petition possession present prisoners Province publick Quebec received regiments reinforcements repeal resolutions resolved retreat ricans river Samuel Adams sent ships sion soldiers soon spirit Stamp Act thousand tion town troops Virginia Washington whole
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Stran 252 - Mr. President — Though I am truly sensible of the high honor done me, in this appointment, yet I feel great distress, from a consciousness that my abilities and military experience may not be equal to the extensive and important trust.
Stran 69 - LIBERTY to recoil within them: men promoted to the highest seats of justice, some who, to my knowledge, were glad, by going to a foreign country, to escape being brought to the bar of a Court of Justice in their own.
Stran 89 - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
Stran 211 - But, from the necessity of the case, and a regard to the mutual interest of both countries, we cheerfully consent to the operation of such acts of the British parliament, as are bona fide, restrained to the regulation of our external commerce, for the purpose of securing the commercial advantages of the whole empire to the mother country, and the commercial benefits of its respective members ; excluding every idea of taxation internal or external, for raising a revenue on the subjects in America,...
Stran 252 - I beg leave to assure the Congress, that, as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment, at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it. I will keep an exact account of my expenses. Those, I doubt not, they will discharge; and that is all I desire.
Stran 209 - An Act for the impartial administration of justice, in the cases of persons questioned for any act done by them in the execution of the law, or for the suppression of riots and tumults, in the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, in New England...
Stran 348 - He has excited Domestic Insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
Stran 211 - That the respective colonies are entitled to the common law of England, and more especially to the great and inestimable privilege of being tried by their peers of the vicinage, according to the course of that law.
Stran 72 - Resolved, That the taxation of the people by themselves, or by persons chosen by themselves to represent them, who can only know what taxes the people are able to bear, and the easiest mode of raising them, and are equally affected by such taxes themselves, is the distinguishing characteristic of British freedom, and without which the ancient constitution cannot subsist.
Stran 208 - An Act to discontinue, in such manner, and for such time, as are therein mentioned, the landing and discharging, lading or shipping of Goods, Wares, and Merchandise, at the Town, and within the Harbour of Boston, in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, in North America...