Life of George Washington, Količina 1J. B. Lippincott & Company, 1873 |
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... receiving knighthood for public ser- vices . Their names are to be found honorably recorded in county histories , or engraved on mon- uments in time - worn churches and cathedrals , those garnering places of English ... received , in 1538.
... receiving knighthood for public ser- vices . Their names are to be found honorably recorded in county histories , or engraved on mon- uments in time - worn churches and cathedrals , those garnering places of English ... received , in 1538.
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Washington Irving. priories by Henry VIII . he received , in 1538 , a grant of the manor of Sulgrave , in Northamptou- shire , with other lands in the vicinity , all confis- cated property formerly belonging to the monas- tery of St ...
Washington Irving. priories by Henry VIII . he received , in 1538 , a grant of the manor of Sulgrave , in Northamptou- shire , with other lands in the vicinity , all confis- cated property formerly belonging to the monas- tery of St ...
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... received a letter from Fairfax , who , with his victorious army , was at Haddington , demand- ing the surrender of Worcester . The following was Colonel Washington's reply : 46 SIR , It is acknowledged by your books and t of your own ...
... received a letter from Fairfax , who , with his victorious army , was at Haddington , demand- ing the surrender of Worcester . The following was Colonel Washington's reply : 46 SIR , It is acknowledged by your books and t of your own ...
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... kuga the Blue Ridge , and on the Stand Emself once more.at Mount 2 Se us sevices he received , according * proves , 3 inaaloon per day when ac- ** g * , O , UNG SARRCmes six pistoles.1 GREENWAY COURT . 47 The manner in which he had.
... kuga the Blue Ridge , and on the Stand Emself once more.at Mount 2 Se us sevices he received , according * proves , 3 inaaloon per day when ac- ** g * , O , UNG SARRCmes six pistoles.1 GREENWAY COURT . 47 The manner in which he had.
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... received the appoint- ment of public surveyor . This conferred author- ity on his surveys , and entitled them to be re- corded in the county offices ; and so invariably correct have these surveys been found that , to this day , wherever ...
... received the appoint- ment of public surveyor . This conferred author- ity on his surveys , and entitled them to be re- corded in the county offices ; and so invariably correct have these surveys been found that , to this day , wherever ...
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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.