The Life of George Washington: Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of His Country, and First President of the United States. Compiled Under the Inspection of the Hon. Bushrod Washington from Original Papers ... to which is Prefixed, an Introduction Containing a Compendious View of the Colonies Planted by the English on the Continent of North America, Band 4Richard Phillips, 1805 |
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... Military transactions . Fayette detached to Virginia . Destouches sails for the Che- sapeak . Operations of the British army in Virginia . Cornwallis arrives . Presses Fayette over the Rapidan . Fayette forms a junction with Wayne ...
... Military transactions . Fayette detached to Virginia . Destouches sails for the Che- sapeak . Operations of the British army in Virginia . Cornwallis arrives . Presses Fayette over the Rapidan . Fayette forms a junction with Wayne ...
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... military force should be kept in North America , without the consent of the General Congress , or particular assemblies . " To concur in measures calculated to discharge the debts of America , and to raise the credit and value of the ...
... military force should be kept in North America , without the consent of the General Congress , or particular assemblies . " To concur in measures calculated to discharge the debts of America , and to raise the credit and value of the ...
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... military establishment , and to exercise a perfect freedom in legislation and internal government , so that the British colonies throughout North America , acting with Great Britain , in peace and in war , under one common sovereign ...
... military establishment , and to exercise a perfect freedom in legislation and internal government , so that the British colonies throughout North America , acting with Great Britain , in peace and in war , under one common sovereign ...
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... military , or ecclesi- astical capacities , or in private stations , and sug- gesting severally to the consideration of each of these classes , such motives as might be supposed to have the greatest influence , adjured them all not to ...
... military , or ecclesi- astical capacities , or in private stations , and sug- gesting severally to the consideration of each of these classes , such motives as might be supposed to have the greatest influence , adjured them all not to ...
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... and defeated his design by one of those bold and decisive measures which , whether formed on a great or a small scale , with many thousand VOL . IV . D or or a few hundred troops , mark the military and GENERAL WASHINGTON . 33.
... and defeated his design by one of those bold and decisive measures which , whether formed on a great or a small scale , with many thousand VOL . IV . D or or a few hundred troops , mark the military and GENERAL WASHINGTON . 33.
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