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4th Series affairs alarm American arms Arnold arrived artillery attack battery boats Boston British camp Canadians cannon cannonade Captain Carleton cause Clinton Colonel colonies command commander-in-chief committee of safety Connecticut Continental Congress council defense detached Dorchester Heights embarked encamped enemy enemy's enlisted eral Ethan Allen expedition fire fleet force Fort Constitution Fort Washington fortified garrison Gates George Clinton Governor Tryon Green Mountain Boys Greene guard guns head-quarters Highlands Hill hope Hudson hundred Indian ington inhabitants James Clinton Jersey John's King's Bridge Lake land Lechmere Point Lee's letter Long Island Lord ment miles military militia Montgomery Montreal night officers ordered pass Point President of Congress province Putnam Quebec received Reed regiment reinforcements retreat riflemen river Schuyler sent ships soldiers soon spirit Staten Staten Island stationed Sullivan thousand Ticonderoga tion tories town troops vessels Wash Washington writes York
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Stran 307 - which they were engaged, and to make them feel that it was no ordinary warfare, admitting of vulgar passions and perturbations. " The general hopes and trusts," said he, " that every officer and man will endeavor so to live and act as becomes a Christian soldier, defending the dearest rights and liberties of his country.
Stran 146 - I have no objection to your giving my money in charity to the amount of forty or fifty pounds a year, when you think it well bestowed. What I mean by having no objection is, that it is my desire it should be done. You are to consider that neither myself nor wife, is now
Stran 74 - very cautious not to violate the rights of conscience in others, ever considering that God alone is the judge of the hearts of men, and to him only, in this case, are they answerable." In the general letter of instructions, Washington inserted the following clause. "If Lord Chatham's son should be in Canada,
Stran 146 - Let the hospitality of the house with respect to the poor be kept up. Let no one go hungry away. If any of this kind of people should be in want of corn, supply their necessaries, provided it does not encourage them to idleness
Stran 534 - in performing it, that the country might have time to come in. Twice we marched back to meet the enemy, and remained out until dark. The sign of fear was not seen in our camp ; and had not some of the cowardly and disaffected inhabitants spread false alarms through the country, the Jerseys had never been ravaged.
Stran 368 - battalions more, however, were ordered to be ready as a reinforcement, if required. " Be cool, but determined," was the exhortation given to the departing troops. " Do not fire at a distance, but wait the commands of your officers. It is the general's express orders, that if any man attempt to skulk, lie down, or retreat without orders,
Stran 22 - cattle feeding on the choicest mowing land, whole fields of corn eaten down to the ground, and large parks of well-regulated forest trees cut down for fire-wood and other public uses." Beside the main dispositions above mentioned, about seven hundred men were distributed in the small towns and villages along the coast, to prevent depredations by water
Stran 284 - manifested in his little tincture of vanity, and in an over-desire of being popular, which now and then lead him into embarrassments. His wants are common to us all. He wants experience to move upon a grand scale ; for the limited and contracted knowledge, which any of us have
Stran 414 - who ran at the- appearance of the enemy's advanced guard. Fellows' and Parsons' brigades ran away from about fifty men, and left his Excellency on the ground, within eighty yards of the enemy, so vexed at the infamous conduct of his troops, that he sought death rather than life.
Stran 47 - have deluged their country with blood, have been protected from the fury of a justly enraged people. Far from compelling or permitting their assistance, I am embarrassed with the numbers who crowd to our camp, animated with the purest principles of virtue and love to their country