History of the American Revolution: The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving. For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools ....G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1876 - 714 strani |
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... forces ; how and where they were distributed ; the situations and distances of their forts , and their means and mode of ... Force , and three soldiers , set off in company with him 24 WASHINGTON AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION . [ 1753.
... forces ; how and where they were distributed ; the situations and distances of their forts , and their means and mode of ... Force , and three soldiers , set off in company with him 24 WASHINGTON AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION . [ 1753.
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... Force went as if on ordinary business , but he proved one of the most active , daring , and mischief - making of those anoma- lous agents employed by the French among the Indian tribes . It is probable that he was at the bottom of many ...
... Force went as if on ordinary business , but he proved one of the most active , daring , and mischief - making of those anoma- lous agents employed by the French among the Indian tribes . It is probable that he was at the bottom of many ...
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... Force had been there at noon on the previous day , with a detachment of fifty men , and Gist had since come upon their track within five miles of the camp . Washington detached seventy - five men in pursuit of him and his prowling band ...
... Force had been there at noon on the previous day , with a detachment of fifty men , and Gist had since come upon their track within five miles of the camp . Washington detached seventy - five men in pursuit of him and his prowling band ...
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... Force . As Washington con- sidered the latter an arch mischief - maker , he was rejoiced to have him is his power . The prisoners were conducted to the camp at the Great Meadows , and sent on the following day ( 29th ) , under a strong ...
... Force . As Washington con- sidered the latter an arch mischief - maker , he was rejoiced to have him is his power . The prisoners were conducted to the camp at the Great Meadows , and sent on the following day ( 29th ) , under a strong ...
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... Force not having acted in a military capacity , and having offended against the peace and security of the frontier , by his intrigues among the Indians , was kept in close durance . The refusal of Governor Dinwiddie to fulfill the ...
... Force not having acted in a military capacity , and having offended against the peace and security of the frontier , by his intrigues among the Indians , was kept in close durance . The refusal of Governor Dinwiddie to fulfill the ...
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advance aide-de-camp American arms army Arnold arrived artillery attack baggage batteries boats Boston bridge brigade British Burgoyne camp cannon Captain captured Carolina cavalry Colonel colonies command commander-in-chief Congress Cornwallis Creek crossed defence Delaware despatched detachment dragoons encamped enemy enemy's expedition fire flank fleet force Fort Duquesne Fort Edward Fort Mifflin Fort Montgomery Fort Washington French garrison Gates gave Governor Governor Dinwiddie Greene guard Hessians Highlands Hill horse House Hudson hundred Indians infantry ington Island Jersey Lafayette land letter Logstown Lord Lord Cornwallis Lord Loudoun Lord Rawdon main body meantime ment miles military militia morning Mount Vernon night North o'clock officers ordered party passed Peekskill Pennsylvania Philadelphia Point prisoners Putnam quarters rear received redoubt regiment reinforcements retreat river road Schuyler sent ships side Sir Henry Clinton soon South stationed Tarleton thousand Ticonderoga tion took town troops Virginia Wash Washington wounded York
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Stran 106 - 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 424 - For some days past, there has been little less than a famine in camp. A part of the army has been a week without any kind of flesh, and the rest three or four days. Naked and starving as they are, we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been ere this excited by their suffering to a general mutiny and dispersion.
Stran 633 - We have errors to correct ; we have probably had too good an opinion of human nature in forming our confederation. Experience has taught us that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good, without the intervention of coercive power.
Stran 707 - According to these bases, you were right to assert that whatever plenipotentiary the Government of the United States might send to France to put an end to the existing differences between the two countries would be undoubtedly received with the respect due to the representative of a free, independent, and powerful nation.
Stran 634 - Their creed is, that the property of the United States has been protected from the confiscation of Britain by the joint exertions of all ; and therefore ought to be the common property of all ; and he that attempts opposition to this creed, is an enemy to equity and justice, and ought to be swept from off the face of the earth.
Stran 124 - If you speak of eloquence, Mr. Rutledge, of South Carolina, is by far the greatest orator ; but if you speak of solid information and sound judgment, Colonel Washington is unquestionably the greatest man on that floor.
Stran 634 - Let the reins of government, then, be braced and held with a steady hand, and every violation of the constitution be reprehended. If defective, let it be amended ; but not suffered to be trampled upon whilst it has an existence.
Stran 703 - The situation in which I now stand for the last time in the midst of the representatives of the people of the United States, naturally recalls the period when the administration of the present form of government commenced, and I cannot omit the occasion to congratulate you and my country on the success of the experiment, nor to repeat my fervent supplications to the Supreme Ruler of the universe and Sovereign Arbiter of nations, that his providential care may...
Stran 118 - 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 of appointing deputies from the several colonies of British America, to meet annually in GENERAL CONGRESS, at such place as might be deemed expedient, to deliberate on such measures as the united interests of the colonies might require.
Stran 418 - I can assure those gentlemen, that it is a much easier and less distressing thing to draw remonstrances in a comfortable room by a good fireside, than to occupy a cold, bleak hill, and sleep under frost and snow, without clothes or blankets.