The Life of George Washington, Commander in Chief of the American Army, Through the Revolutionary War: And the First President of the United States, Band 2T. Bedington, 1831 |
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... communication between Yorktown and Glouces- ter Point was defended by batteries on shore , and by several armed ships in the river . The body of the British army was encamped about Yorktown , within a range of redoubts and field works ...
... communication between Yorktown and Glouces- ter Point was defended by batteries on shore , and by several armed ships in the river . The body of the British army was encamped about Yorktown , within a range of redoubts and field works ...
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... , I think it a duty incumbent on me to make this my last official communication , to congratulate you on the glorious events which Heaven has been pleased to produce in our favour ; to 42 [ 1783 . LIFE OF WASHINGTON .
... , I think it a duty incumbent on me to make this my last official communication , to congratulate you on the glorious events which Heaven has been pleased to produce in our favour ; to 42 [ 1783 . LIFE OF WASHINGTON .
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... communicate these senti- ments to your Legislature , at their next meeting ; and that they may be considered as the Legacy of one who has ardently wished , on all occasions , to be useful to his country , and who even in the shade of ...
... communicate these senti- ments to your Legislature , at their next meeting ; and that they may be considered as the Legacy of one who has ardently wished , on all occasions , to be useful to his country , and who even in the shade of ...
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... communications we open to it , the closer we bind that rising world , ( for it indeed may be so called ) to our interests , and the greater strength shall we acquire by it . Those to whom nature affords the best communication , will ...
... communications we open to it , the closer we bind that rising world , ( for it indeed may be so called ) to our interests , and the greater strength shall we acquire by it . Those to whom nature affords the best communication , will ...
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... communications General WASH - INGTON replied . " Your sentiments that our affairs pidly to a crisis , accord with my own . are drawing ra- What the event will be , is also beyond the reach of my foresight . We have errours to correct ...
... communications General WASH - INGTON replied . " Your sentiments that our affairs pidly to a crisis , accord with my own . are drawing ra- What the event will be , is also beyond the reach of my foresight . We have errours to correct ...
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