Life of George Washington, Količina 1G. P. Putnam, 1860 - 821 strani Written in the unmistakable prose of Washington Irving, author of?The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and?Rip Van Winkle, Life of Washington is a detailed biography of the first President of the United States.?Captivated by the man whose name he was given, Irving spent most of the later years of his life researching the Revolutionary War hero and statesman. The in-depth biography includes individual chapters on each battle where General Washington was involved as well as lengthy passages about Mount Vernon, Washington's home. Completed just five months before Irving's death, the volume became a great addition to his canon and an accurate tribute to George Washington. |
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... miles from the site of the present town of Winchester . In a diary kept with his usual minuteness , Washington speaks with delight of the beauty of the trees and the richness of the land in the neighborhood , and of his riding through a ...
... miles from the site of the present town of Winchester . In a diary kept with his usual minuteness , Washington speaks with delight of the beauty of the trees and the richness of the land in the neighborhood , and of his riding through a ...
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... miles , crossed the Great Moneami , or Miami River , on a raft , swimming their horses ; and on the 17th of February arrived at the Indian town of Piqua . These journeyings had carried Gist about a At Beaver Creek , a few miles below ...
... miles , crossed the Great Moneami , or Miami River , on a raft , swimming their horses ; and on the 17th of February arrived at the Indian town of Piqua . These journeyings had carried Gist about a At Beaver Creek , a few miles below ...
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... miles apart , with a waggon road between them . The nearest and levellest way to them was now impassable , lying through large and miry savannas ; they would have , therefore , to go by Venango , and it would | take five or six sleeps ...
... miles apart , with a waggon road between them . The nearest and levellest way to them was now impassable , lying through large and miry savannas ; they would have , therefore , to go by Venango , and it would | take five or six sleeps ...
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... miles above the fork of the Ohio , where he hoped to be able to cross the Alle- gany River on the ice . At Murdering Town he found a party of In- dians , who appeared to have known of his coming , and to have been waiting for him . One ...
... miles above the fork of the Ohio , where he hoped to be able to cross the Alle- gany River on the ice . At Murdering Town he found a party of In- dians , who appeared to have known of his coming , and to have been waiting for him . One ...
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... miles above Shannopins Town . Here they learned from a war party of Indians that a band of Ottawas , a tribe in the interest of the French , had massacred a whole family of whites on the banks of the great Kanawha River . ercise Indian ...
... miles above Shannopins Town . Here they learned from a war party of Indians that a band of Ottawas , a tribe in the interest of the French , had massacred a whole family of whites on the banks of the great Kanawha River . ercise Indian ...
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