The History of the Rise, Progress, and Establishment, of the Independence of the United States of America: Including an Account of the Late War ; and of the Thirteen Colonies, from Their Origin to that Period, Band 2Author, 1788 |
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... gun - powder for the ufe of the continent . Congress agreed to the refolutions of the committee of the whole house , " That fix companies of expert rifle- men be immediately raised in Pennsylvania , two in Maryland , and two in Virginia ...
... gun - powder for the ufe of the continent . Congress agreed to the refolutions of the committee of the whole house , " That fix companies of expert rifle- men be immediately raised in Pennsylvania , two in Maryland , and two in Virginia ...
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... gun and a good fword or hanger was all the foldier wanted , without mentioning a word of the bayonet - it was all that the ranger wanted . When the laft French war was clofed , the ceffions made to Britain in these American regions ...
... gun and a good fword or hanger was all the foldier wanted , without mentioning a word of the bayonet - it was all that the ranger wanted . When the laft French war was clofed , the ceffions made to Britain in these American regions ...
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... guns called the town of Bofton , the camp and the fleet to behold a novelty which was little expected . The profpect obliged the British gene- rals to alter the plan which they meant to execute the next day . They grew weary of being ...
... guns called the town of Bofton , the camp and the fleet to behold a novelty which was little expected . The profpect obliged the British gene- rals to alter the plan which they meant to execute the next day . They grew weary of being ...
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... guns ; they have only common muskets , nor are these in general fur- nished with bayonets ; but then they are almost all marksmen , being accustomed to fporting of one kind or other from their youth . A number of the Maffa- chusetts ...
... guns ; they have only common muskets , nor are these in general fur- nished with bayonets ; but then they are almost all marksmen , being accustomed to fporting of one kind or other from their youth . A number of the Maffa- chusetts ...
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... guns , or curious arms . No doubt however is to be made , but that the greatest part , or nearly all the training arms were delivered up . The impartial world will fcarcely acquit him of having been guilty of a notorious breach of faith ...
... guns , or curious arms . No doubt however is to be made , but that the greatest part , or nearly all the training arms were delivered up . The impartial world will fcarcely acquit him of having been guilty of a notorious breach of faith ...
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