Life of George Washington, Količina 1J. B. Lippincott & Company, 1873 |
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... Point . - Affair at Lake George . Death of Dieskau • 222 CHAPTER XIX . Reform in the Militia Laws . - Discipline of the Troops . Dagworthy and the Question of Precedence . - Washington's Journey to Boston . - Style of Trav ...
... Point . - Affair at Lake George . Death of Dieskau • 222 CHAPTER XIX . Reform in the Militia Laws . - Discipline of the Troops . Dagworthy and the Question of Precedence . - Washington's Journey to Boston . - Style of Trav ...
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... Point . - A Dash at St. John's . ― CHAPTER XXXIX . Second Session of Congress . - John Hancock . - Peti- tion to the King . Federal Union . — Military Measures . Debates about the Army . - Question as to Commander - in - chief ...
... Point . - A Dash at St. John's . ― CHAPTER XXXIX . Second Session of Congress . - John Hancock . - Peti- tion to the King . Federal Union . — Military Measures . Debates about the Army . - Question as to Commander - in - chief ...
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... points , brandishing in one hand a sword , and holding forth in the other the arms of the see.2 Among the knights who ... point out his national descent ; and the family long continued to have Norman names of baptism . The surname of De ...
... points , brandishing in one hand a sword , and holding forth in the other the arms of the see.2 Among the knights who ... point out his national descent ; and the family long continued to have Norman names of baptism . The surname of De ...
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... point , he broke in with a handful of infantry at a weak part of the wall , made room for the horse to follow , and opened a path to victory.1 He distinguished himself still more in 1646 , when elevated to the command of Worcester , the ...
... point , he broke in with a handful of infantry at a weak part of the wall , made room for the horse to follow , and opened a path to victory.1 He distinguished himself still more in 1646 , when elevated to the command of Worcester , the ...
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... point is twenty or twenty - five feet above the common surface of the water , and a considerable bottom of flat , well timbered land all around it , very convenient for building . The rivers are each a quarter of a mile or more across ...
... point is twenty or twenty - five feet above the common surface of the water , and a considerable bottom of flat , well timbered land all around it , very convenient for building . The rivers are each a quarter of a mile or more across ...
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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.