Life of George Washington, Količina 1G. P. Putnam & Company, 1856 Five volumes complete in three. |
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... Defence - Suggestions of Washington - The Gentlemen Associators - Retreat of the Savages - Expedition against Kittanning - Captain Hugh Mercer - Second Struggle through the Wilder- ness ......... 218 CHAPTER XXI . Founding of Fort ...
... Defence - Suggestions of Washington - The Gentlemen Associators - Retreat of the Savages - Expedition against Kittanning - Captain Hugh Mercer - Second Struggle through the Wilder- ness ......... 218 CHAPTER XXI . Founding of Fort ...
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... defence . General Fairfax , with 1,500 horse and foot , was daily expected . There was not powder enough for an hour's contest should the city be stormed . Still Sir Henry " awaited his Majesty's com- mands . " At length news arrived ...
... defence . General Fairfax , with 1,500 horse and foot , was daily expected . There was not powder enough for an hour's contest should the city be stormed . Still Sir Henry " awaited his Majesty's com- mands . " At length news arrived ...
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... defence against the Indians . Mr. Thomas Lee , president of the council of Virginia , took the lead in the concerns of the company at the outset , and by many has been considered its founder . On his death , which soon took place ...
... defence against the Indians . Mr. Thomas Lee , president of the council of Virginia , took the lead in the concerns of the company at the outset , and by many has been considered its founder . On his death , which soon took place ...
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... defence . A council of the nation was now held , in which Gist invited them , in the name of the Governor of Virginia , to visit that province , where a large present of goods awaited them , sent by their father , the great king , over ...
... defence . A council of the nation was now held , in which Gist invited them , in the name of the Governor of Virginia , to visit that province , where a large present of goods awaited them , sent by their father , the great king , over ...
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... defence , or retreat ; and should they be reinforced sufficiently to enable them to attack the fort , they could easily drop down the river with their artillery . With these alternatives in view , Washington detached sixty men in ...
... defence , or retreat ; and should they be reinforced sufficiently to enable them to attack the fort , they could easily drop down the river with their artillery . With these alternatives in view , Washington detached sixty men in ...
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advance affairs American appointed arms army arrived artillery Assembly attack Boston Braam Braddock British brother Bunker's Hill camp campaign Captain Colonel colonies command conduct Congress council Creek Croghan Crown Point Cumberland defence detachment Duquesne encamped enemy England English expedition fire force Fort Cumberland Fort Duquesne French frontier Gage garrison George George Croghan Gist Governor Dinwiddie half-king Hill honor horses House of Burgesses Hugh Mercer hundred Indians ington John king Lake Lake George land Lawrence letter Logstown Lord Fairfax Lord Loudoun Loudoun Massachusetts ment miles military militia Montcalm Mount Vernon mountains night officers Ohio orders Parliament party patriot Pennsylvania Potomac province Putnam received redoubt regiment retreat returned river road sachem savages scouts sent ships Sir William Johnson soldiers spirit thousand tion took town traders tribes troops Virginia waggons warriors Washington Wessyngton wilderness William Williamsburg Winchester wounded York
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Stran 357 - Peyton Randolph, Richard Henry Lee, George Washington, Patrick Henry, Richard Bland...
Stran 414 - I should enjoy more real happiness in one month with you at home than I have the most distant prospect of finding abroad, if my stay were to be seven times seven years. But as it has been a kind of destiny that has thrown me upon this service, I shall hope that my undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose.
Stran 311 - Britain; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.
Stran 272 - I would rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec.
Stran 363 - Plead my cause, O Lord, with them that strive with me : Fight against them that fight against me.
Stran 413 - You may believe me, my dear Patsy, when I assure you, in the most solemn manner, that, so far from seeking this appointment, I have used every endeavor in my power to avoid it, not only from my unwillingness to part with you and the family, but from a consciousness of its being a trust too great for my capacity...
Stran 386 - ... we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon, until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained ; we must fight ! I repeat it, Sir, we must fight ! An appeal to arms, and to the God of hosts, is all that is left us.
Stran 271 - I am so far recovered as to do business ; but my constitution is entirely ruined, without the consolation of having done any considerable service to the state ; or without any prospect of it.
Stran 412 - Ward, accordingly, was elected the second in command, and Lee the third. The other two major-generals were, Philip Schuyler, of New York, and Israel Putnam, of Connecticut. Eight brigadier-generals were likewise appointed; Seth Pomeroy, Richard Montgomery, David Wooster, William Heath, Joseph Spencer, John Thomas, John Sullivan, and Nathaniel Greene.
Stran 137 - Braddock is a very Iroquois in disposition. He had a sister, who, having gamed away all her little fortune at Bath, hanged herself with a truly English deliberation, leaving only a note upon the table with those lines, ' To die is landing on some silent shore,' &c. When Braddock was told of it, he only said, ' Poor Fanny ! I always thought she would play till she would be forced to tuck herself up.