A History of the American Revolution: Comprehending All the Principal Events Both in the Field and in the Cabinet, Band 1F. Betts, 1822 |
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... command - they had arrived at a stage of preeminence , by being merely ushered into the world , to which the honest ploughman of this coun- try never could , even in the dreams of his fancy , dare to aspire . The European philanthropist ...
... command - they had arrived at a stage of preeminence , by being merely ushered into the world , to which the honest ploughman of this coun- try never could , even in the dreams of his fancy , dare to aspire . The European philanthropist ...
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... command of this force , consisting of only three hundred men , was given to Colonel Fry , who died soon after their first skirmish at the Great Meadows , and Washington , his lieutenent colonel , succeeded to the command . Thus far the ...
... command of this force , consisting of only three hundred men , was given to Colonel Fry , who died soon after their first skirmish at the Great Meadows , and Washington , his lieutenent colonel , succeeded to the command . Thus far the ...
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... command . Thus far the Colony of Virginia stood single in her resistance to the claims and encroachments of the French ; and what she had done , had been upon the sole authority of the Provin- cial Assembly , without the orders or ...
... command . Thus far the Colony of Virginia stood single in her resistance to the claims and encroachments of the French ; and what she had done , had been upon the sole authority of the Provin- cial Assembly , without the orders or ...
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... command , and the regiment was reduced to independent companies . The British Ministry having once seen what it was in the power of their Colonies to perform , and never losing sight of their first grand object to drive their French ...
... command , and the regiment was reduced to independent companies . The British Ministry having once seen what it was in the power of their Colonies to perform , and never losing sight of their first grand object to drive their French ...
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... St. Lawrence . About the same time Ge- neral Braddock was dispatched from Cork , with two regiments of regular troops , and ordered to take the command of the Provincial troops raised in Virginia , which 34 AMERICAN REVOLUTION .
... St. Lawrence . About the same time Ge- neral Braddock was dispatched from Cork , with two regiments of regular troops , and ordered to take the command of the Provincial troops raised in Virginia , which 34 AMERICAN REVOLUTION .
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Seite 252 - Mr. President — Though I am truly sensible of the high honor done me, in this appointment, yet I feel great distress, from a consciousness that my abilities and military experience may not be equal to the extensive and important trust.
Seite 69 - LIBERTY to recoil within them: men promoted to the highest seats of justice, some who, to my knowledge, were glad, by going to a foreign country, to escape being brought to the bar of a Court of Justice in their own.
Seite 89 - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
Seite 211 - But, from the necessity of the case, and a regard to the mutual interest of both countries, we cheerfully consent to the operation of such acts of the British parliament, as are bona fide, restrained to the regulation of our external commerce, for the purpose of securing the commercial advantages of the whole empire to the mother country, and the commercial benefits of its respective members ; excluding every idea of taxation internal or external, for raising a revenue on the subjects in America,...
Seite 252 - I beg leave to assure the Congress, that, as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment, at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it. I will keep an exact account of my expenses. Those, I doubt not, they will discharge; and that is all I desire.
Seite 209 - An Act for the impartial administration of justice, in the cases of persons questioned for any act done by them in the execution of the law, or for the suppression of riots and tumults, in the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, in New England...
Seite 348 - He has excited Domestic Insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
Seite 211 - That the respective colonies are entitled to the common law of England, and more especially to the great and inestimable privilege of being tried by their peers of the vicinage, according to the course of that law.
Seite 72 - Resolved, That the taxation of the people by themselves, or by persons chosen by themselves to represent them, who can only know what taxes the people are able to bear, and the easiest mode of raising them, and are equally affected by such taxes themselves, is the distinguishing characteristic of British freedom, and without which the ancient constitution cannot subsist.
Seite 208 - An Act to discontinue, in such manner, and for such time, as are therein mentioned, the landing and discharging, lading or shipping of Goods, Wares, and Merchandise, at the Town, and within the Harbour of Boston, in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, in North America...