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... American people at a later day , and there is something very instructive in this early re- volt against the stupid ... army to which he was attached he studied with the deepest attention the best dis- cipline of Europe , observing ...
... American people at a later day , and there is something very instructive in this early re- volt against the stupid ... army to which he was attached he studied with the deepest attention the best dis- cipline of Europe , observing ...
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... army reached Fort Duquesne , and wrote to his friend Orme that he would not ... troops forded the Monongahela and marched to attack the fort . The splendid ... American militia , they could make no impression on disciplined troops . Now ...
... army reached Fort Duquesne , and wrote to his friend Orme that he would not ... troops forded the Monongahela and marched to attack the fort . The splendid ... American militia , they could make no impression on disciplined troops . Now ...
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... troops , seven hundred , and of the officers , who showed the utmost bravery ... American mili- tia , " who , spread out as skirmishers , met their foes on ... troops . He endeavored to bring up the artillery , but the men would not serve ...
... troops , seven hundred , and of the officers , who showed the utmost bravery ... American mili- tia , " who , spread out as skirmishers , met their foes on ... troops . He endeavored to bring up the artillery , but the men would not serve ...
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... troops broke it was Washington who gathered the fugitives and brought off the dying general . It was he who rode on ... us as , above all things , the fighting man , hot - blooded and . fierce in action , and utterly indifferent to the ...
... troops broke it was Washington who gathered the fugitives and brought off the dying general . It was he who rode on ... us as , above all things , the fighting man , hot - blooded and . fierce in action , and utterly indifferent to the ...
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... troops were not in- vincible , that they could be beaten by Indians , and that they were after all much like other men ... America and all things American , and ended in ruin and defeat . It was a bitter experience , much heeded by the ...
... troops were not in- vincible , that they could be beaten by Indians , and that they were after all much like other men ... America and all things American , and ended in ruin and defeat . It was a bitter experience , much heeded by the ...
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