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 2C.P. Wayne., 1804 |
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... were made by small predatory parties of French and Indians , who murdered the defenceless wherever found , and kept up a continual alarm . In Pennsylvania , the inhabitants were driven as far as Carlisle : CHAP 30 THE LIFE OF.
... were made by small predatory parties of French and Indians , who murdered the defenceless wherever found , and kept up a continual alarm . In Pennsylvania , the inhabitants were driven as far as Carlisle : CHAP 30 THE LIFE OF.
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... inhabitants were driven as far as Carlisle : CHAP . I. and in Maryland , Fredericktown on the eastern 1756 . side of the Blue Ridge became a frontier . With all the exertions which had been made , the Virginia regiment did not yet ...
... inhabitants were driven as far as Carlisle : CHAP . I. and in Maryland , Fredericktown on the eastern 1756 . side of the Blue Ridge became a frontier . With all the exertions which had been made , the Virginia regiment did not yet ...
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... inhabitants from the horrors of the scalping knife , and the still greater horrors of being led into captivity , by Indians , who too often inflicted death by torture . As soon as the main body of the enemy had withdrawn from the ...
... inhabitants from the horrors of the scalping knife , and the still greater horrors of being led into captivity , by Indians , who too often inflicted death by torture . As soon as the main body of the enemy had withdrawn from the ...
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... inhabitants are so sensible of their danger if left to the protection of these people , that not a man will stay at his place . This I have from their own mouths , and the principal inhabitants of Augusta county . The militia are under ...
... inhabitants are so sensible of their danger if left to the protection of these people , that not a man will stay at his place . This I have from their own mouths , and the principal inhabitants of Augusta county . The militia are under ...
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... inhabitants . " First of the militia . The difficulty of col- lecting them on any emergency whatever , I have spoken of as grievous : and appeal to sad experience both in this , and other countries , to attest how great a disadvantage ...
... inhabitants . " First of the militia . The difficulty of col- lecting them on any emergency whatever , I have spoken of as grievous : and appeal to sad experience both in this , and other countries , to attest how great a disadvantage ...
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