Life of George Washington, Količina 1J. B. Lippincott & Company, 1873 |
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... American Army . - Scornful Conduct of the British Officers . — Project of the Americans to seize upon Breed's Hill . - Putnam's Opinion of it . Sanctioned by Prescott . Nocturnal March - xix PAGE of the Detachment . — Fortifying of ...
... American Army . - Scornful Conduct of the British Officers . — Project of the Americans to seize upon Breed's Hill . - Putnam's Opinion of it . Sanctioned by Prescott . Nocturnal March - xix PAGE of the Detachment . — Fortifying of ...
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... American liberty , a woe - worn lover in his youthful days , " sighing like furnace , " and inditing plaintive verses about the groves of Mount Vernon . We are glad of an opportunity , how- ever , of penetrating to his native feelings ...
... American liberty , a woe - worn lover in his youthful days , " sighing like furnace , " and inditing plaintive verses about the groves of Mount Vernon . We are glad of an opportunity , how- ever , of penetrating to his native feelings ...
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... America . He made a voyage to Virginia about the year 1739 , to visit his vast estates there . These he inherited from his mother , Catharine , daughter of Thomas , Lord Culpepper , to whom they had been granted by Charles II . The orig ...
... America . He made a voyage to Virginia about the year 1739 , to visit his vast estates there . These he inherited from his mother , Catharine , daughter of Thomas , Lord Culpepper , to whom they had been granted by Charles II . The orig ...
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... American . Lawrence left a wife and an infant daughter to inherit his ample estates . In case his daughter should die without issue , the estate of Mount Vernon , and other lands specified in his will , were to be enjoyed by her mother ...
... American . Lawrence left a wife and an infant daughter to inherit his ample estates . In case his daughter should die without issue , the estate of Mount Vernon , and other lands specified in his will , were to be enjoyed by her mother ...
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... America . So profound was the dissim- ulation of the court of Versailles , that even their own ambassador is said to have been kept in ig- norance of their real desigus , and of the hostile game they were playing , while he was exerting ...
... America . So profound was the dissim- ulation of the court of Versailles , that even their own ambassador is said to have been kept in ig- norance of their real desigus , and of the hostile game they were playing , while he was exerting ...
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affairs Alleghany America arms army arrived Assembly attack Blue Ridge Boston Braam Braddock British brothers camp campaign canoe Captain chevalier Christopher Gist Colonel colonies command Company conduct council Creek Crown Point Cumberland Delawares Duquesne Durham England English expedition fire force Fort Cumberland Fort Duquesne forts French friends frontier Gage garrison gave George Croghan Gist Governor Dinwiddie half-king Henry honor horses House of Burgesses hundred Indians ington Joncaire king Lake land Lawrence letter Logstown Lord Fairfax Lord Loudoun Loudoun manor Maryland miles military militia Mount Vernon mountains Murdering Town night officers Ohio orders palatinate party Pennsylvania Potomac prelate province received regiment returned river road sachems savages sent ships Sir John St Sir William Sir William Johnson soldier speech-belts spirit Sulgrave tion took town trade tribes troops valley Virginia wagons warriors Wash Washington Wessyngton wilderness William Fairfax Williamsburg Winchester wounded
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Stran 147 - I fortunately escaped without any wound; for the right wing, where I stood, was exposed to, and received, all the enemy's fire ; and it was the part where the man was killed and the rest wounded. I heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound" This rodomontade, as Horace Walpole terms it reached the ears of George II.
Stran 229 - As a remarkable instance of this, I may point out to the public that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country.
Stran 360 - 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 179 - These savages may indeed be a formidable enemy to your raw American militia ; but upon the King's regular and disciplined troops, Sir, it is impossible they should make any impression.
Stran 179 - Having before revolved in my mind the long line his army must make in their march by a very narrow road, to be cut for them...
Stran 406 - I have in my hand a paper published by order of your house, conceived in such terms as reflect highly upon his majesty and the parliament of Great Britain, which makes it necessary for me to dissolve you, and you are dissolved accordingly.
Stran 424 - Britain will, on a revision of them, restore us to that state in which both countries found happiness and prosperity, we have for the present only resolved to pursue the following peaceable measures : 1st.
Stran 406 - Raleigh tavern, and passed resolutions, denouncing the Boston port bill as a most dangerous attempt to destroy the constitutional liberty and rights of all North America; recommending their countrymen to desist from the use, not merely of tea, but of all kinds of East Indian commodities ; pronouncing an attack on one of the colonies, to enforce arbitrary taxes, an attack on all ; and ordering the committee of correspondence to communicate with the other corresponding committees, on the expediency...
Stran 163 - ... 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 a note on the table with these 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.