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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... militia and other defects in the structure of the Ameri- can army . ALTHOUGH the Americans had been driven 1776 . out of Canada , and the hope of annexing that province to the union was abandoned for the present , the northern ...
... militia and other defects in the structure of the Ameri- can army . ALTHOUGH the Americans had been driven 1776 . out of Canada , and the hope of annexing that province to the union was abandoned for the present , the northern ...
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... militia . That officer had smarted so severely for depending on essential aid from this source , that his opi- nion was against calling them to the assistance October 22 . of the garrison , unless it should be absolutely insufficient ...
... militia . That officer had smarted so severely for depending on essential aid from this source , that his opi- nion was against calling them to the assistance October 22 . of the garrison , unless it should be absolutely insufficient ...
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... militia , and six thousand men , under general Lincoln , had been ordered 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 ...
... militia , and six thousand men , under general Lincoln , had been ordered 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 ...
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... militia , when a negotiation was entered into with sir John Johnson their leader , which ter- minated in a kind of capitulation , in which sir John , and the tories of his neighbourhood , agreed to surrender their arms , and stipulated ...
... militia , when a negotiation was entered into with sir John Johnson their leader , which ter- minated in a kind of capitulation , in which sir John , and the tories of his neighbourhood , agreed to surrender their arms , and stipulated ...
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... militia of some counties lest their absence should encourage the disaf- fected behind them , to embody . Yet while the seat of war was in New York , very essential aid was given by the militia of that state : but the main force of the ...
... militia of some counties lest their absence should encourage the disaf- fected behind them , to embody . Yet while the seat of war was in New York , very essential aid was given by the militia of that state : but the main force of the ...
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