The History of the Rise, Progress, and Establishment of the Independence of the United States of America, Band 2Samuel Campbell, no. 124, Pearl-street, 1801 "The following work is not confined to the contest between Great Britain and the United States of America, but includes all the other parts of the war which originated from that contest. ... The form of letters, instead of chapters, is not altogether imaginary, as the author, from his arrival in America in 1770, maintained a correspondence with gentlemen in London, Rotterdam and Paris, answering in general to the prefixed dates."--Preface. |
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... camp , through all the dangers with which they are pressed . The Americans under lord Stirling , consisting of col . Miles's two battalions , col . Atlee's , col . Smallwood's and col . Hatch's regiments , and who are engaged with gen ...
... camp , through all the dangers with which they are pressed . The Americans under lord Stirling , consisting of col . Miles's two battalions , col . Atlee's , col . Smallwood's and col . Hatch's regiments , and who are engaged with gen ...
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... camp , dated September the 4th , wherein he writes , " Gen. Washing- ton has not , so far as I have seen , 5000 men to be depended on for the service of a campaign , and I have not 1000. Both our armies are composed of raw militia ...
... camp , dated September the 4th , wherein he writes , " Gen. Washing- ton has not , so far as I have seen , 5000 men to be depended on for the service of a campaign , and I have not 1000. Both our armies are composed of raw militia ...
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... camp itself had the appearance of a general hospital rather than an army . The small - pox had infected every thing belonging to it , the cloths , the blankets , the air , the very ground the men walked on . Gen. Gates ex- erted all his ...
... camp itself had the appearance of a general hospital rather than an army . The small - pox had infected every thing belonging to it , the cloths , the blankets , the air , the very ground the men walked on . Gen. Gates ex- erted all his ...
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... camp was too literally such . Whole battalions of them ran off from Powle's ( the mode of speiling Pauls two hundred years back * ) Hook and the height of Bergen , upon the firing of a broad- side from a man of war , when no one was ...
... camp was too literally such . Whole battalions of them ran off from Powle's ( the mode of speiling Pauls two hundred years back * ) Hook and the height of Bergen , upon the firing of a broad- side from a man of war , when no one was ...
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... camp , which composed half the number then pre- sent . When the Americans were withdrawn and no prospect of action remained , the British generals repaired to the house of Mr. Robert Murray , a gentleman of the quaker persuasion . The ...
... camp , which composed half the number then pre- sent . When the Americans were withdrawn and no prospect of action remained , the British generals repaired to the house of Mr. Robert Murray , a gentleman of the quaker persuasion . The ...
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