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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... produced by this , and other diseases , was such , that the northern army did not exhibit the force which congress had designed to give it ; and , in a council of general officers , it was determined to evacuate Crown Point , and con ...
... produced by this , and other diseases , was such , that the northern army did not exhibit the force which congress had designed to give it ; and , in a council of general officers , it was determined to evacuate Crown Point , and con ...
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... produced , in a con- siderable degree , the effect which was , most probably , one of the motives for the expedi- tion . On being pressed through the Jerseys , with an army daily diminishing in its numbers , general Washington had ...
... produced , in a con- siderable degree , the effect which was , most probably , one of the motives for the expedi- tion . On being pressed through the Jerseys , with an army daily diminishing in its numbers , general Washington had ...
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... produced by this state of things , and the suffering Americans were taught to im- pute the continuance of their captivity to their own gene- ral . In addition to this , it not unfrequently happened that the British prisoners were sent ...
... produced by this state of things , and the suffering Americans were taught to im- pute the continuance of their captivity to their own gene- ral . In addition to this , it not unfrequently happened that the British prisoners were sent ...
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... produce the distress which existed , his authority was certainly not inter- posed with sufficient energy , to correct the abuses complained of . This inattention was the more extraordinary , as it was injurious to the British interest ...
... produce the distress which existed , his authority was certainly not inter- posed with sufficient energy , to correct the abuses complained of . This inattention was the more extraordinary , as it was injurious to the British interest ...
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... produced no small degree of embarrassment and chagrin to the commander in chief . On the allegation that the terms of capitulation had been infracted on the part of the enemy , and that the savages had been permitted to murder some of ...
... produced no small degree of embarrassment and chagrin to the commander in chief . On the allegation that the terms of capitulation had been infracted on the part of the enemy , and that the savages had been permitted to murder some of ...
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