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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... immediately in quest of Arnold , who was soon found very advantageously posted , and forming a strong line to defend the passage between the island of Valicour , and the west- ern main . October 4 . Notwithstanding the vast disparity of ...
... immediately in quest of Arnold , who was soon found very advantageously posted , and forming a strong line to defend the passage between the island of Valicour , and the west- ern main . October 4 . Notwithstanding the vast disparity of ...
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... immediately on the approach of the enemy , set fire to the houses , evacuated the place , and retired to Ticonderoga , which it was determined to de- fend to the last extremity . General Carleton took possession of Crown pears before ...
... immediately on the approach of the enemy , set fire to the houses , evacuated the place , and retired to Ticonderoga , which it was determined to de- fend to the last extremity . General Carleton took possession of Crown pears before ...
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... immediately to join him . Their march , as well as the march of the militia of Connecticut , was for a time suspended , for the purpose of watching the enemy in Rhode Island . Independent of this temporary effect , the English derived ...
... immediately to join him . Their march , as well as the march of the militia of Connecticut , was for a time suspended , for the purpose of watching the enemy in Rhode Island . Independent of this temporary effect , the English derived ...
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... immediately to a written paper declaratory of their allegiance . Copies of all the papers relative to this plan , together with several other letters from lord Dunmore , were intercepted on their way to Boston in December 1775 , and ...
... immediately to a written paper declaratory of their allegiance . Copies of all the papers relative to this plan , together with several other letters from lord Dunmore , were intercepted on their way to Boston in December 1775 , and ...
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... immediately assumed the form of labour , for the cultivation and improvement of their lands . This was more especially the situation of the middle and southern colonies , whose commerce was chiefly in the hands of British merchants ...
... immediately assumed the form of labour , for the cultivation and improvement of their lands . This was more especially the situation of the middle and southern colonies , whose commerce was chiefly in the hands of British merchants ...
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