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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... British army , if it should slip by Ticonderoga , of the means of conveying their artillery , military stores , and baggage ; or of subsisting themselves . winter These considerations seem to have weighed also with the English general ...
... British army , if it should slip by Ticonderoga , of the means of conveying their artillery , military stores , and baggage ; or of subsisting themselves . winter These considerations seem to have weighed also with the English general ...
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... British . Sir John Johnson possessed great influence over the Indians of the lakes , and he exercised that influence to arrange them in offensive war against America . This in no small degree embarrassed general Washington . To seize ...
... British . Sir John Johnson possessed great influence over the Indians of the lakes , and he exercised that influence to arrange them in offensive war against America . This in no small degree embarrassed general Washington . To seize ...
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... British service . In addition to this , those in the American service could only act against men in arms ; those in the British service against age , infancy , and the helpless sex . Treatment CHAP . I. mind was susceptible ...
... British service . In addition to this , those in the American service could only act against men in arms ; those in the British service against age , infancy , and the helpless sex . Treatment CHAP . I. mind was susceptible ...
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... British forces in America ; and to have had no inconsiderable share of influence over his conduct in that capacity . He consi- dered the Americans merely as rebels , and treated them as if the great national resistance they were now ...
... British forces in America ; and to have had no inconsiderable share of influence over his conduct in that capacity . He consi- dered the Americans merely as rebels , and treated them as if the great national resistance they were now ...
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... British general , a conduct more conformable to the rights they gave . While he claimed the benefit of these rights , he declared his deter- mination to be regulated entirely in his conduct towards the prisoners who should fall into his ...
... British general , a conduct more conformable to the rights they gave . While he claimed the benefit of these rights , he declared his deter- mination to be regulated entirely in his conduct towards the prisoners who should fall into his ...
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