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... the shrines of their forefathers and chiefs leads us to invest our modern hero
with a mythical character , and picture him in our imagination as a being to whom
, a few thousand years ago , altars would have been builded and libations
poured ...
... the shrines of their forefathers and chiefs leads us to invest our modern hero
with a mythical character , and picture him in our imagination as a being to whom
, a few thousand years ago , altars would have been builded and libations
poured ...
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... then there were no cities or towns in Virginia . The only place which could
pretend to either name was Norfolk , the solitary seaport , which , with its six or
seven thousand inhabitants , formed the most glaring exception that any rule
solicitous ...
... then there were no cities or towns in Virginia . The only place which could
pretend to either name was Norfolk , the solitary seaport , which , with its six or
seven thousand inhabitants , formed the most glaring exception that any rule
solicitous ...
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In 1667 , when he had been but ten years in the colony , he was chosen to the
House of Burgesses ; and eight years later he was made a colonel and sent with
a thousand men to join the Marylanders in destroying the “ Susquehannocks , " at
...
In 1667 , when he had been but ten years in the colony , he was chosen to the
House of Burgesses ; and eight years later he was made a colonel and sent with
a thousand men to join the Marylanders in destroying the “ Susquehannocks , " at
...
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Contrecour , with the main body of the French and Indians , was moving down
from the Monongahela a thousand strong . This of course was to have been
anticipated , and it does not seem to have in the least damped Washington's
spirits .
Contrecour , with the main body of the French and Indians , was moving down
from the Monongahela a thousand strong . This of course was to have been
anticipated , and it does not seem to have in the least damped Washington's
spirits .
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When Washington left Will's Creek he was aware that he was going to meet a
force of a thousand men with only a hundred and fifty raw recruits at his back . In
the same spirit he pushed on ; and after the Jumonville affair , although he knew
...
When Washington left Will's Creek he was aware that he was going to meet a
force of a thousand men with only a hundred and fifty raw recruits at his back . In
the same spirit he pushed on ; and after the Jumonville affair , although he knew
...
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| Titel | George Washington, Band 1 Bände 4-5 von American statesmen George Washington, Henry Cabot Lodge |
| Autor/in | Henry Cabot Lodge |
| Ausgabe | Neuauflage |
| Verlag | Houghton, Mifflin, 1917 |
| Original von | University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| Digitalisiert | 15. Apr. 2009 |
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