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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... cannons , mortars and howitzers , to the number of fifty . and better . Shells , & c . they had got from the king's store at New - York , and out of the ordnance brig . The cannonade and bombardment did little damage , only shattered ...
... cannons , mortars and howitzers , to the number of fifty . and better . Shells , & c . they had got from the king's store at New - York , and out of the ordnance brig . The cannonade and bombardment did little damage , only shattered ...
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... cannon . When the king's troops withdrew from Charlestown , they left centries standing as usual with their fire- locks shouldered ; but it was soon suspected what regiment they belonged to , and that they were only effigies set there ...
... cannon . When the king's troops withdrew from Charlestown , they left centries standing as usual with their fire- locks shouldered ; but it was soon suspected what regiment they belonged to , and that they were only effigies set there ...
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... cannon , and only attempted rendering them unserviceable , which was affected as to severak General Washington was soon acquainted with the evacuation of the town , when measures were taken to preserve the peace and order of it , by ...
... cannon , and only attempted rendering them unserviceable , which was affected as to severak General Washington was soon acquainted with the evacuation of the town , when measures were taken to preserve the peace and order of it , by ...
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... cannon , great and small , more than half of which may be rendered serviceable by the aids of ingenuity ; the hea- viest have been the least injured - four thirteen and a half inch morters , two of them with their beds weighing five ...
... cannon , great and small , more than half of which may be rendered serviceable by the aids of ingenuity ; the hea- viest have been the least injured - four thirteen and a half inch morters , two of them with their beds weighing five ...
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... cannon on the battery , and at the king's store amount- ing to about a hundred , to a place of safety ; a third of them are thirty - two pounders . He also drew up another tremendous oath to be administered to the tories , and sent ...
... cannon on the battery , and at the king's store amount- ing to about a hundred , to a place of safety ; a third of them are thirty - two pounders . He also drew up another tremendous oath to be administered to the tories , and sent ...
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