Life of George Washington...J. Stockdale, 1808 - 560 Seiten |
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... interests of the British crown , conceived it proper officially to warn the French to desist from the prosecution of a scheme , deemed a viola- tion of existing treaties between the two countries . It was difficult to select a proper ...
... interests of the British crown , conceived it proper officially to warn the French to desist from the prosecution of a scheme , deemed a viola- tion of existing treaties between the two countries . It was difficult to select a proper ...
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... interest , than I have done ; but if there is any person living , who can say with justice , that I have offered any intentional wrong to the public , I will cheerfully submit to the most ignominious punishment that an injured people ...
... interest , than I have done ; but if there is any person living , who can say with justice , that I have offered any intentional wrong to the public , I will cheerfully submit to the most ignominious punishment that an injured people ...
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... interests , and the public money have been prostituted . " Colonel Grant , with a force of eight hundred men , having been detached to reconnoitre the country , in the neighbourhood of the Ohio , was about this time defeated with loss ...
... interests , and the public money have been prostituted . " Colonel Grant , with a force of eight hundred men , having been detached to reconnoitre the country , in the neighbourhood of the Ohio , was about this time defeated with loss ...
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... interest , might sur- prise a British garrison at Fort Cumberland , at the head of the Bay of Fundy , and possess them- selves of valuable military stores , if not retain the country ; the measure was , therefore , recom- mended by that ...
... interest , might sur- prise a British garrison at Fort Cumberland , at the head of the Bay of Fundy , and possess them- selves of valuable military stores , if not retain the country ; the measure was , therefore , recom- mended by that ...
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... interests , and under the persuasion , that their thorough use of arms rendered them equal to the disciplined battalions which they were to oppose . But , on this occa- sion , by evolutions which they did not compre- hend , they found ...
... interests , and under the persuasion , that their thorough use of arms rendered them equal to the disciplined battalions which they were to oppose . But , on this occa- sion , by evolutions which they did not compre- hend , they found ...
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