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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... troops them- selves ; and though in the beginning of 1776 the secret committee was charged with taking measures to import a large quantity of clothing , yet they did not arrive to supply the demands of that year . For want of those ...
... troops them- selves ; and though in the beginning of 1776 the secret committee was charged with taking measures to import a large quantity of clothing , yet they did not arrive to supply the demands of that year . For want of those ...
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... troops . Militia were not merely depended on as auxiliaries , and as covering the country from the sudden irruptions of small parties , for which purposes they ought certainly to be competent , and with a view to which they will ever be ...
... troops . Militia were not merely depended on as auxiliaries , and as covering the country from the sudden irruptions of small parties , for which purposes they ought certainly to be competent , and with a view to which they will ever be ...
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... troops who were soon to return home , and who could not be subjected to discipline while in camp , was also a very serious mischief . Connected with short inlistments , and with the organization of civil governments in Ame- rica , were ...
... troops who were soon to return home , and who could not be subjected to discipline while in camp , was also a very serious mischief . Connected with short inlistments , and with the organization of civil governments in Ame- rica , were ...
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... troop of horse . General Lee , who commanded in the southern department , and whose experience of the utility of horse was not now to be acquired , very early pressed the necessity of employing troops of that des- cription , and at his ...
... troop of horse . General Lee , who commanded in the southern department , and whose experience of the utility of horse was not now to be acquired , very early pressed the necessity of employing troops of that des- cription , and at his ...
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... troops should join the army . The almost 1777. unparalleled sufferings which had been sustained in a service where raw troops , unfurnished with ordinary clothing , had unavoidably been exposed to the hardships of a winter campaign , in ...
... troops should join the army . The almost 1777. unparalleled sufferings which had been sustained in a service where raw troops , unfurnished with ordinary clothing , had unavoidably been exposed to the hardships of a winter campaign , in ...
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