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... to surprise and cap- ture a British force of ten or twelve hundred , His lordship crossed on the night of the 14th of January , from De Hart's Point to the island . His approach was discov- ered ; the troops took refuge in the works ,
... to surprise and cap- ture a British force of ten or twelve hundred , His lordship crossed on the night of the 14th of January , from De Hart's Point to the island . His approach was discov- ered ; the troops took refuge in the works ,
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... night march had been judged the most advisable . It was made in profound silence and by unfrequented roads . In the course of the march , a negro was descried attempting to avoid notice . He was seized . A letter was found on him from ...
... night march had been judged the most advisable . It was made in profound silence and by unfrequented roads . In the course of the march , a negro was descried attempting to avoid notice . He was seized . A letter was found on him from ...
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... night of forced march , he arrived about dawn at Rugeley's Mills . Bu- ford , he was told , was about twenty miles in advance of him , pressing on with all diligence to join another corps of Americans . Tarleton continued his march ...
... night of forced march , he arrived about dawn at Rugeley's Mills . Bu- ford , he was told , was about twenty miles in advance of him , pressing on with all diligence to join another corps of Americans . Tarleton continued his march ...
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... night of the 5th of June from Staten Island to Elizabethtown Point . The first division , led by Brigadier - general Sterling , actually landed before dawn of the 6th , and advanced as silently as pos- sible . The heavy and measured ...
... night of the 5th of June from Staten Island to Elizabethtown Point . The first division , led by Brigadier - general Sterling , actually landed before dawn of the 6th , and advanced as silently as pos- sible . The heavy and measured ...
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... night his camp fires lighted up the Short Hills , and he re- mained on the alert expecting to be assailed in the morning ; but in the morning no enemy was to be seen . Knyphausen had experienced enough to convince him that he had been ...
... night his camp fires lighted up the Short Hills , and he re- mained on the alert expecting to be assailed in the morning ; but in the morning no enemy was to be seen . Knyphausen had experienced enough to convince him that he had been ...
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Seite 270 - It would have been a less painful circumstance to me to have heard that in consequence of your non-compliance with their request, they had burnt my house and laid the plantation in ruins. You ought to have considered yourself as my representative, and should have reflected on the bad example of communicating with the enemy, and making a voluntary offer of refreshments to them with a view to prevent a conflagration.
Seite 453 - I feel, my dear General Knox, infinitely more than I can express to you, for the disorders which have arisen in these States. Good God ! who, besides a tory, could have foreseen, or a Briton predicted them...
Seite 386 - Can you then consent to be the only sufferers by this revolution, and retiring from the field, grow old in poverty, wretchedness and contempt? Can you consent to wade through the vile mire of dependency, and owe the miserable remnant of that life to charity, which has hitherto been spent in honor?
Seite 401 - I shall not rest contented, till I have explored the western country, and traversed those lines, or great part of them, which have given bounds to a new empire.
Seite 450 - Retired as I am from the world, I frankly acknowledge I cannot feel myself an unconcerned spectator. Yet, having happily assisted in bringing the ship into port, and having been fairly discharged, it is not my business to embark again on a sea of troubles.
Seite 383 - Had this day been wanting, the world had never seen the last stage of perfection, to which human nature is capable of attaining.
Seite 458 - I have said he, often and often in the course of the Session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that behind the President without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting: But now at length I have the happiness to know that it is a rising and not a setting Sun.
Seite 379 - On the following day another anonymous address was circulated, written in a more moderate tone, but to the same purport with the first, and affecting to construe the general orders into an approbation of the object sought ; only changing the day appointed for the meeting.
Seite 451 - Their creed is, that the property of the United States has been protected from the confiscation of Britain by the joint exertions of all, and therefore ought to be the common property of all, and he that attempts opposition to this creed is an enemy to equity and justice, and ought to be swept 90 life of from off the face of the earth.
Seite 109 - In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways. 7 The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.