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 Honourable 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, from Their Settlement to the Commencement of that War which Terminated in Their Independence, Band 3C.P. Wayne., 1804 |
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... , the views of the United States were now limited to the defence of their own territory ; and so great was the force directed against them , as to render their ability to repel inva- VOL . III . B } CHAP . I. sion , extremely doubtful : ...
... , the views of the United States were now limited to the defence of their own territory ; and so great was the force directed against them , as to render their ability to repel inva- VOL . III . B } CHAP . I. sion , extremely doubtful : ...
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... extremely critical . It must be admitted too , that wintering on lake George , an army whose supplies were to be drawn from Canada , would have been attended with great difficulty , and that the attempt , at that late season , to ...
... extremely critical . It must be admitted too , that wintering on lake George , an army whose supplies were to be drawn from Canada , would have been attended with great difficulty , and that the attempt , at that late season , to ...
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... extremely unwilling to take the field ; and chose rather to give a small sum of money to a substitute . In a short time , more money was given for a month's service in the militia , than was offered to a soldier to engage in the regu ...
... extremely unwilling to take the field ; and chose rather to give a small sum of money to a substitute . In a short time , more money was given for a month's service in the militia , than was offered to a soldier to engage in the regu ...
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... extremely difficult to obtain supplies of provisions or fuel . While the enemy was thus surrounded , ha- rassed , and confined , by little more than an imaginary army , the parts of which disappeared at the approach of any serious force ...
... extremely difficult to obtain supplies of provisions or fuel . While the enemy was thus surrounded , ha- rassed , and confined , by little more than an imaginary army , the parts of which disappeared at the approach of any serious force ...
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... extremely through the winter for fuel , forage , and provisions ; or so to weaken their posts at Brunswick and Amboy , as to give general Washington an opportunity of attacking them with some advantage . If he should be disap- pointed ...
... extremely through the winter for fuel , forage , and provisions ; or so to weaken their posts at Brunswick and Amboy , as to give general Washington an opportunity of attacking them with some advantage . If he should be disap- pointed ...
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