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... Indians as one Colonel Washington ( him whom you have sometimes seen at your house ) . " This suggests very strongly that John Washing- ton , the first Virginian of the name , was of Northamptonshire , and that he came from , or lived ...
... Indians as one Colonel Washington ( him whom you have sometimes seen at your house ) . " This suggests very strongly that John Washing- ton , the first Virginian of the name , was of Northamptonshire , and that he came from , or lived ...
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... Indian chiefs during a parley , and then invested the fort . After repulsing several sorties , they stupidly allowed the Indians to escape in the night and carry murder and pillage through the outlying settlements , light- ing up first ...
... Indian chiefs during a parley , and then invested the fort . After repulsing several sorties , they stupidly allowed the Indians to escape in the night and carry murder and pillage through the outlying settlements , light- ing up first ...
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... Indians , and the French . He went in a schoolboy ; he came out the first soldier in the colonies , and one of the leading men of Virginia . Let us pause a moment and look at him as he stands on the threshold of this momentous period ...
... Indians , and the French . He went in a schoolboy ; he came out the first soldier in the colonies , and one of the leading men of Virginia . Let us pause a moment and look at him as he stands on the threshold of this momentous period ...
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... Indians , and having plied them with liquor , watched one of their mad dances round the camp - fire . In another place they came on a straggling settlement of Germans , dull , pa- tient , and illiterate , strangely unfit for the life of ...
... Indians , and having plied them with liquor , watched one of their mad dances round the camp - fire . In another place they came on a straggling settlement of Germans , dull , pa- tient , and illiterate , strangely unfit for the life of ...
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... diligently to work to form Indian alliances . A man of far less perception than Lawrence Wash- ington , who had become the chief manager of the Ohio Company , would have seen that the conditions on 62 GEORGE WASHINGTON .
... diligently to work to form Indian alliances . A man of far less perception than Lawrence Wash- ington , who had become the chief manager of the Ohio Company , would have seen that the conditions on 62 GEORGE WASHINGTON .
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