 | Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby - 1904 - 1218 strani
...military force under the control of the Continental Congress was taken June 15, 1775, when that body resolved that a general be appointed to command all...to be raised for the defense of American liberty, and unanimously elected George Washington. One year later (June 13, 1776) the Continental Congress... | |
 | United States. Continental Congress - 1905 - 270 strani
...conclusion ordered him to move for leave to sit again. The report of the committee being read and debated, Resolved, That a General be appointed to command all...continental forces, raised, or to be raised, for the defence of American liberty. That five hundred dollars, per month, be allowed for his pay and expences.... | |
 | United States. Continental Congress - 1905 - 268 strani
...conclusion ordered him to move for leave to sit again. The report of the committee being read and debated, Resolved, That a General be appointed to command all...continental forces, raised, or to be raised, for the defence of American liberty. That five hundred dollars, per month, be allowed for his pay and expences.... | |
 | George Elliott Howard - 1905 - 420 strani
...— George Washington, of Virginia, was unanimously 1 Frothingham, Siege of Boston, 113-174. selected to "command all the continental forces, raised, or to be raised, for the defence of American liberty."1 July 2 the man whose life and character during the next twenty-four... | |
 | William Hand Browne, Louis Henry Dielman - 1920 - 470 strani
...came on Thursday, June 15th, 1775, when after some discussion the following motion was adopted : " Resolved, That a General be appointed to command all...Continental forces, raised, or to be raised, for the defence of American liberty. " That five hundred dollars, per month, be allowed for his pay and expenses."... | |
 | Arthur Talmage Abernethy - 1906 - 88 strani
...Congress, to which he was delegate, assembled in the State House. One of their first acts was to determine "that a general be appointed to command all the Continental forces raised or to be raised in the defense of American liberty," and by a unanimous vote in that famed Pennsylvania hall the heaviest... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1906 - 406 strani
...four Corporals, a Drummer or Trumpeter, and sixty eight Privates."1 On the 15th George Washington was "appointed to command all the Continental Forces, raised or to be raised, for the Defence of American Liberty,"1 and in due time proceeded to Cambridge, where, on the 3d day of July,... | |
 | 1906 - 412 strani
...four Corporals, a Drummer or Trumpeter, and sixty eight Privates."1 On the 15th George Washington was "appointed to command all the Continental Forces, raised or to be raised, for the Defence of American Liberty,"2 and in due time proceeded to Cambridge, where, on the 3d day of July,... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1907 - 312 strani
...some way of defense. On this particular day, therefore, it passed the following resolution : — " Resolved, That a General be appointed to command all...to be raised for the defense of American liberty. " That five hundred dollars per month be allowed for the pay and expenses of the General." Who should... | |
 | George Washington - 1908 - 500 strani
...former acquaintance of Washington. 61 Acceptance of Appointment. On June 15, 1775, Congress having resolved " That a general be appointed to command...continental forces raised or to be raised for the defence of American liberty," proceeded to a choice, and the ballots being taken, George Washington,... | |
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Resolved, That a general be appointed to command all the Continental forces raised, or to be raised, for the defence of American liberty. 
