The Writings of George Washington: pt. II. Correspondence and miscellaneous papers relating to the American revolution: (v. 3) June, 1775-July, 1776. (v. 4) July, 1776-July] 1777. (v. 5) July, 1777-July, 1778. (v. 6) July, 1778-March, 1780. (v. 7) March, 1780-April, 1781. (v. 8) April, 1781-December, 1783American Stationers' Company, John B. Russell, 1835 |
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... Grasse has orders to leave with you two vessels to defend the port , and the transports necessary for your army . " * The British had come up Lake Champlain from Canada , and threat- ened an invasion of the frontiers of New York in that ...
... Grasse has orders to leave with you two vessels to defend the port , and the transports necessary for your army . " * The British had come up Lake Champlain from Canada , and threat- ened an invasion of the frontiers of New York in that ...
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... Grasse of the strength and situation of the enemy's naval and land force in this country , the destination of the French squadron under Admiral Bar- ras , and the intentions of the allied arms if a junction can be formed . At present ...
... Grasse of the strength and situation of the enemy's naval and land force in this country , the destination of the French squadron under Admiral Bar- ras , and the intentions of the allied arms if a junction can be formed . At present ...
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... Grasse , for the West Indies ; and that , after he had passed the Azores , Count de Grasse would detach a convoy with somewhat more than six hundred recruits , escorted by the armed vessel Sagittaire , and destined to unite with the ...
... Grasse , for the West Indies ; and that , after he had passed the Azores , Count de Grasse would detach a convoy with somewhat more than six hundred recruits , escorted by the armed vessel Sagittaire , and destined to unite with the ...
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... Grasse , under the escort of a fifty - gun ship , as mentioned in a note to the letter above , dated June 4th . Two thirds of the convoy and the ship had arrived at Boston ; the other third had been dispersed in a gale near the coast ...
... Grasse , under the escort of a fifty - gun ship , as mentioned in a note to the letter above , dated June 4th . Two thirds of the convoy and the ship had arrived at Boston ; the other third had been dispersed in a gale near the coast ...
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... Grasse extend to every thing I could wish . You cannot , in my opinion , too strongly urge the necessity of his bringing a body of troops with him , more especially as I am very doubtful , whether our force can be drawn together by the ...
... Grasse extend to every thing I could wish . You cannot , in my opinion , too strongly urge the necessity of his bringing a body of troops with him , more especially as I am very doubtful , whether our force can be drawn together by the ...
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Seite 555 - Can you then consent to be the only sufferers by this Revolution, and, retiring from the field, grow old in poverty, wretchedness, and contempt? Can you consent to wade through the vile mire of dependency, and owe the miserable remnant of that life to charity which has hitherto been spent in honor?
Seite 502 - THE successful termination of the war has verified the most sanguine expectations, and my gratitude for the interposition of providence, and the assistance I have received from my countrymen, increases with every review of the momentous contest.
Seite 568 - The United States, in Congress assembled, receive with emotions too affecting for utterance, the solemn resignation of the authorities under which you have led their troops with success through a perilous and a doubtful war.
Seite 561 - ... the gratification of every wish so far as may be done consistently with the great duty I owe my country, and those powers we are bound to respect, you may freely command my services to the utmost extent of my abilities.
Seite 560 - My God! what can this writer have in view, by recommending such measures? Can he be a friend to the Army? Can he be a friend to this Country? Rather, is he not an insidious Foe? Some Emissary, perhaps, from New York, plotting the ruin of both, by sowing the seeds of discord and separation between the Civil and Military powers of the Continent?
Seite 553 - ... be unheard nor unregarded. " Like many of you he loved private life, and left it with regret. He left it, determined to retire from the field with the necessity that called him to it, and not till then ; not till the enemies of his country, the slaves of power, and the hirelings of injustice were compelled to abandon their schemes, and acknowledge America as terrible in arms as she had been humble in remonstrance. With this object in view he has long shared in your toils, and mingled in your...
Seite 554 - A country courting your return to private life, with tears of gratitude and smiles of admiration, longing to divide with you that independency which your gallantry has given, and those riches which your wounds have preserved ? Is this the case ? Or is it rather a country, that tramples upon your rights, disdains your cries, and insults your distresses...
Seite 437 - Congress, arid to return to that domestic retirement, which, it is well known, I left with the greatest reluctance; a retirement for which I have never ceased to sigh, through a long and painful absence, and in which (remote from the noise and trouble of the world) I meditate to pass the remainder of life, in a state of undisturbed repose.
Seite 444 - The ability of the country to discharge the debts which have been incurred in its defence, is not to be doubted. An inclination, I flatter myself, will not be wanting; the path of our duty is plain before us ; honesty will be found, on every experiment, to be the best and only true policy. Let us, then, as a nation, be just ; let us fulfil the public contracts which Congress had undoubtedly a right to make for the purpose of carrying on the war, with the same good faith we suppose ourselves bound...
Seite 440 - ... the ill-fated moment for relaxing the powers of the Union, annihilating the cement of the confederation, and exposing us to become the sport of European politics, which may play one State against another, to prevent their growing importance, and to serve their own interested purposes.