An Impartial History of the Present War in America: Containing an Account of Its Rise and Progress, the Political Springs Thereof with Its Various Successes and Disappointments on Both Sides, Band 2Robson, 1780 |
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... coast , and several of them were drove to the Weft Indies , where they arrived in great diftrefs . Others which were got entangled with the American coasts , were either taken or feized in those harbours and creeks , where they put in ...
... coast , and several of them were drove to the Weft Indies , where they arrived in great diftrefs . Others which were got entangled with the American coasts , were either taken or feized in those harbours and creeks , where they put in ...
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... coast ;. and the principal army containing the greatest part of the British forces , under the command of General Clinton , Earl Percy , and Lord Cornwallis , turned . fhort to the right , and approached to the oppofite coaft at Flat ...
... coast ;. and the principal army containing the greatest part of the British forces , under the command of General Clinton , Earl Percy , and Lord Cornwallis , turned . fhort to the right , and approached to the oppofite coaft at Flat ...
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... coast , and a warm cannonade , with a fharp fire of fmall arms , was eagerly fupported on both fides for fome hours . During this time the King's troops gained no advan- tage , but were upon the point of being repulfed , had not the ...
... coast , and a warm cannonade , with a fharp fire of fmall arms , was eagerly fupported on both fides for fome hours . During this time the King's troops gained no advan- tage , but were upon the point of being repulfed , had not the ...
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... coast , were so late in knowing what was carrying on in other parts , that they were intercepted in their retreat by fome of the British troops , who in the morning had not only turned round the hill upon their left , but had traverfed ...
... coast , were so late in knowing what was carrying on in other parts , that they were intercepted in their retreat by fome of the British troops , who in the morning had not only turned round the hill upon their left , but had traverfed ...
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... coast , and a warm cannonade , with a sharp fire of fmall arms , was eagerly fupported on both fides for fome hours . During this time the King's troops gained no advan- tage , but were upon the point of being repulfed , had not the ...
... coast , and a warm cannonade , with a sharp fire of fmall arms , was eagerly fupported on both fides for fome hours . During this time the King's troops gained no advan- tage , but were upon the point of being repulfed , had not the ...
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