Life of George Washington, Količina 4G. P. Putnam's sons, 1887 |
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... Side of the Santee . - His Affair with Tarleton at Black Stock Hill . - Gates at Hillsborough . - His Domestic Misfortunes . - Arrival of Greene . - His Considerate Conduct . - Gates retires to his Estate . - Condition of the Army ...
... Side of the Santee . - His Affair with Tarleton at Black Stock Hill . - Gates at Hillsborough . - His Domestic Misfortunes . - Arrival of Greene . - His Considerate Conduct . - Gates retires to his Estate . - Condition of the Army ...
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... side he cut a canal , from one to the other of the swamps which border these rivers . In advance of the canal were two rows of abatis and a double picketed ditch . Within the canal , and between it and the main works , were strong ...
... side he cut a canal , from one to the other of the swamps which border these rivers . In advance of the canal were two rows of abatis and a double picketed ditch . Within the canal , and between it and the main works , were strong ...
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... side of the North River , amounts only to ten thousand four hundred rank and file , of which about two thousand eight hundred will have completed their term of service by the last of May ; while the enemy's regular force at New York and ...
... side of the North River , amounts only to ten thousand four hundred rank and file , of which about two thousand eight hundred will have completed their term of service by the last of May ; while the enemy's regular force at New York and ...
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... side of Cooper River , by the only passage now open , and threw himself into Charleston . It was a timely rein- forcement , and joyfully welcomed ; for the garrison , when in greatest force , amounted to a little more than two thousand ...
... side of Cooper River , by the only passage now open , and threw himself into Charleston . It was a timely rein- forcement , and joyfully welcomed ; for the garrison , when in greatest force , amounted to a little more than two thousand ...
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... side of the Santee River to the district of Ninety - Six , * a fertile and salubrious region , between the Savannah and the Saluda rivers : while a third , under Cornwallis , was to cross the Santee , march up the northeast bank , and ...
... side of the Santee River to the district of Ninety - Six , * a fertile and salubrious region , between the Savannah and the Saluda rivers : while a third , under Cornwallis , was to cross the Santee , march up the northeast bank , and ...
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advance aide-de-camp American arms army Arnold arrived artillery attack baggage battle bridge British British army Camden camp campaign captured Catawba cavalry Charleston Chastellux Chesapeake Colonel command commander-in-chief conduct Congress coöperate corps Count de Grasse Creek crossed despatched detachment dragoons effect encamped enemy enemy's fear fire fleet foraging force ford French garrison Gates gave give Greene Greene's guard Hamilton head-quarters honor horses Hudson hundred infantry ington Island James River Jersey killed King's Lafayette land letter light troops Lord Cornwallis Lord Rawdon lordship Major André marquis Marquis de Lafayette ment miles military militia Morgan Mount Vernon mountain night North Carolina officers ordered passed patriot Pennsylvania present prisoners received regiment reinforcements reply retired retreat road Rochambeau sent ships side Sir Henry Clinton soldiers South spirit Sumter Tallmadge Tarleton thousand tion took tory Virginia Wash Washington Wayne West Point wounded writes York York Island
Priljubljeni odlomki
Stran 474 - Having defended the standard of liberty in this new world, having taught a lesson useful to those who inflict and to those who feel oppression, you retire from the great theatre of action with the blessings of your fellow-citizens.
Stran 316 - It would have been a less painful circumstance to me to have heard that in consequence of your non-compliance with their request, they had burnt my house and laid the plantation in ruins. You ought to have considered yourself as my representative, and should have reflected on the bad example of communicating with the enemy, and making a voluntary offer of refreshments to them with a view to prevent a conflagration.
Stran 458 - States at large, and particularly for their brethren who have served in the field ; and finally, that he would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all to do justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that charity, humility, and pacific temper of mind, which were the characteristics of the Divine Author of our blessed religion, and without an humble imitation of whose example in these things, we can never hope to be a happy nation.
Stran 474 - You have conducted the great military contest with wisdom and fortitude, invariably regarding the rights of the civil power through all disasters and changes.
Stran 476 - ... scenes of public life, I am solacing myself with those tranquil enjoyments, of which the soldier, who is ever in pursuit of fame, the statesman, whose watchful days and sleepless nights are spent in devising schemes to promote the welfare of his own, perhaps the ruin of other countries, as if this globe was insufficient for us all, and the courtier, who is always watching the countenance of his prince, in hopes of catching a gracious smile, can have very little conception.
Stran 476 - ... strange as it may seem, it is nevertheless true, that it was not till lately I could get the better of my usual custom of ruminating, as soon as I waked in the morning, on the business of the ensuing day; and of my surprise at finding, after revolving many things in my mind, that I was no longer a public man, nor had anything to do with public transactions.
Stran 158 - General went up to see her, and she upbraided him with being in a plot to murder her child. One moment she raved,. another she melted into tears. Sometimes she pressed her infant to her bosom, and lamented its fate, occasioned by the imprudence of its father, in a manner that would have pierced insensibility itself. All the sweetness of beauty, all the loveliness of innocence, all the tenderness of a wife, and all the fondness of a mother showed themselves in her appearance and conduct.
Stran 429 - ... big with the greatest mischiefs that can befall my country. If I am not deceived in the knowledge of myself, you could not have found a person to whom your schemes are more disagreeable. At the same time, in justice to my own feelings, I nrast add, that no man possesses a more sincere wish to see ample justice done to the army than I do...
Stran 437 - On the following day another anonymous address was circulated, written in a more moderate tone, but to the same purport with the first, and affecting to construe the general orders into an approbation of the object sought; only changing the day appointed for the meeting.
Stran 436 - ... it may drive you from the field ; that the wound, often irritated and never healed, may at length become incurable ; and that the slightest mark of indignity from Congress now, must operate like the grave, and part you forever ; that, in any political event, the army has its alternative.