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... Cornwallis . The crisis of his fate and of the Revolution was upon him . His army was melting away . The militia had almost all disappeared , and regiments whose term of enlistment had expired were departing daily . Lee 170 GEORGE ...
... Cornwallis . The crisis of his fate and of the Revolution was upon him . His army was melting away . The militia had almost all disappeared , and regiments whose term of enlistment had expired were departing daily . Lee 170 GEORGE ...
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... Cornwallis , with seven thousand of the best troops , started from New York to redeem what had been lost . Leaving three regiments at Princeton , he pushed hotly after Washington , who fell back behind the Assunpink River , skirmishing ...
... Cornwallis , with seven thousand of the best troops , started from New York to redeem what had been lost . Leaving three regiments at Princeton , he pushed hotly after Washington , who fell back behind the Assunpink River , skirmishing ...
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... Cornwallis , sure of the game , decided to wait till the morrow . He , too , forgot that he was facing an enemy who never overlooked a mistake , and never waited an hour . With quick decision Washington left his camp - fires burning on ...
... Cornwallis , sure of the game , decided to wait till the morrow . He , too , forgot that he was facing an enemy who never overlooked a mistake , and never waited an hour . With quick decision Washington left his camp - fires burning on ...
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... main body , and after some skirmishing began to cannonade at long range . Meantime Cornwallis , with the main body , made a long détour of seventeen miles , and came upon the right flank MALICE DOMESTIC , AND FOREIGN LEVY . 191.
... main body , and after some skirmishing began to cannonade at long range . Meantime Cornwallis , with the main body , made a long détour of seventeen miles , and came upon the right flank MALICE DOMESTIC , AND FOREIGN LEVY . 191.
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... Cornwallis , who then advanced against the Ameri- can lines . Now there were no orders at all , and the troops did not know what to do , or where to go . They stood still , then began to fall back , and then to retreat . A very little ...
... Cornwallis , who then advanced against the Ameri- can lines . Now there were no orders at all , and the troops did not know what to do , or where to go . They stood still , then began to fall back , and then to retreat . A very little ...
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Seite 50 - Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
Seite 221 - I can assure those gentlemen that it is a much easier and less distressing thing to draw remonstrances in a comfortable room by a good fireside than to occupy a cold, bleak hill and sleep under frost and snow without clothes or blankets.
Seite 173 - No man I believe ever had a greater choice of evils and less means to extricate himself from them. However, under a full persuasion of the justice of our cause, I cannot entertain an idea that it will finally sink, though it may remain for some time under a cloud.
Seite 327 - I am much at a loss to conceive what part of my conduct could have given encouragement to an address which to me seems big with the greatest mischiefs that can befall my country. If I am not deceived in the knowledge of myself, you could not have found a person to whom your schemes are more disagreeable.
Seite 293 - 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 burned my house and laid the plantation in ruins.
Seite 337 - Mr. President : The great events on which my resignation depended having at length taken place. I have now the honor of offering my sincere congratulations to Congress, arid of presenting myself before them to surrender into their hands the trust •committed to me, and to claim the indulgence of retiring from the service -of my country.
Seite 87 - The supplicating tears of the women and moving. petitions of the men melt me into such deadly sorrow, that I solemnly declare, if I know my own mind, I could offer myself a willing sacrifice to the butchering enemy, provided that would contribute to the people's ease.
Seite 124 - I will raise a thousand men, subsist them at my own expense, and march with them at their head for the relief of Boston.
Seite 85 - Honored Madam: If it is in my power to avoid going to the Ohio again, I shall; but if the command is pressed upon me by the general voice of the country, and offered upon such terms as cannot be objected against, it would reflect dishonor on me to refuse it...
Seite 269 - To me it will appear miraculous, if our affairs can maintain themselves much longer in their present train. If either the temper or the resources of the country will not admit of an alteration, we may expect soon to be reduced to the humiliating condition of seeing the cause of America, in America, upheld by foreign arms.