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The plan of the writer has been to notice no individual or event further than was
necessary to display the principal character , He has made Judge Marshall his
leading authority for facts , and has in some measure followed him in the order of
...
The plan of the writer has been to notice no individual or event further than was
necessary to display the principal character , He has made Judge Marshall his
leading authority for facts , and has in some measure followed him in the order of
...
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At Winchester he procured the necessary provisions , baggage , and horses . On
the 14th of November he reached Will's Creek , the frontier of inhabited Virginia ;
here he hired a pilot , and four other attendants , to accompany him over the ...
At Winchester he procured the necessary provisions , baggage , and horses . On
the 14th of November he reached Will's Creek , the frontier of inhabited Virginia ;
here he hired a pilot , and four other attendants , to accompany him over the ...
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his pilot wrapt themselves in watch coats , took his important papers , and the
necessary provisions in their packs , and with their guns in their hands ,
prosecuted their journey on foot the nearest way through the woods . The next
day ...
his pilot wrapt themselves in watch coats , took his important papers , and the
necessary provisions in their packs , and with their guns in their hands ,
prosecuted their journey on foot the nearest way through the woods . The next
day ...
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Twelve hundred men were selected , a few waggons were attached to the light
artillery , and necessary provisions were placed on pack horses . Of this body
General Braddock himself took the command , leaving Colonel Dunbar to bring
up ...
Twelve hundred men were selected , a few waggons were attached to the light
artillery , and necessary provisions were placed on pack horses . Of this body
General Braddock himself took the command , leaving Colonel Dunbar to bring
up ...
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... to their object , or impracticable in their nature . The military code of the colony
was insufficient , which rendered it impossible to bring the militia into the field
with the dispatch necessary to repel an Indian invasion ; and her martial laws
1755.
... to their object , or impracticable in their nature . The military code of the colony
was insufficient , which rendered it impossible to bring the militia into the field
with the dispatch necessary to repel an Indian invasion ; and her martial laws
1755.
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| Titel | Life of George Washington: Commander in Chief of the American Army Through the Revolutionary War, and the First President of the United States |
| Autor/in | Aaron Bancroft |
| Verlag | J. Stockdale, 1808 |
| Original von | Klosterbibliothek Montserrat |
| Digitalisiert | 17. Juni 2010 |
| Länge | 560 Seiten |
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