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... York . -Excitement in the French Fleet . - Expedition against Rhode Island . - Operations by Sea and Land . - Failure of the Expedition . - Irritation between the Allied Forces . --Considerate Letter of Washington to the Count D'Estaing ...
... York . -Excitement in the French Fleet . - Expedition against Rhode Island . - Operations by Sea and Land . - Failure of the Expedition . - Irritation between the Allied Forces . --Considerate Letter of Washington to the Count D'Estaing ...
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... York , and Washington at Morristown . Howe was a sol- dier by profession . War , with him , was a career . The camp was , for the time , country and home . Easy and indolent by nature , of convivial and luxurious habits , and somewhat ...
... York , and Washington at Morristown . Howe was a sol- dier by profession . War , with him , was a career . The camp was , for the time , country and home . Easy and indolent by nature , of convivial and luxurious habits , and somewhat ...
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... YORK . - CASE OF COLONEL CAMPBELL . — WASHINGTON'S ADVICE TO CONGRESS ON THE SUBJECT OF RETALIATION.— CORRESPONDENCE WITH LORD HOWE ABOUT THE TREATMENT OF PRISONERS . THE HORRORS OF THE JERSEY PRISON - SHIP AND THE SUGAR- - HIS HOUSE ...
... YORK . - CASE OF COLONEL CAMPBELL . — WASHINGTON'S ADVICE TO CONGRESS ON THE SUBJECT OF RETALIATION.— CORRESPONDENCE WITH LORD HOWE ABOUT THE TREATMENT OF PRISONERS . THE HORRORS OF THE JERSEY PRISON - SHIP AND THE SUGAR- - HIS HOUSE ...
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... York , and to the Eastern States , for reinforcements , and he entreated Washington to aid him with his in- fluence . He wished to have his army composed of troops from as many different States as possible ; the Southern people having a ...
... York , and to the Eastern States , for reinforcements , and he entreated Washington to aid him with his in- fluence . He wished to have his army composed of troops from as many different States as possible ; the Southern people having a ...
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... department . Several of the most important of the New York delegates observed that Gen- eral Gates misapprehended his position . He considered Schuyler's Letter Book . himself as holding the same command as that formerly held.
... department . Several of the most important of the New York delegates observed that Gen- eral Gates misapprehended his position . He considered Schuyler's Letter Book . himself as holding the same command as that formerly held.
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Seite 456 - I find myself just able to hold the pen during a few minutes, and take this opportunity of expressing my sincere grief for having done, written, or said anything disagreeable to your Excellency. My career will soon be over, therefore justice and truth prompt me to declare my last sentiments. You are in my eyes the great and good man. May you long enjoy the love, veneration, and esteem of these States, whose liberties you have asserted by your virtues.
Seite 474 - I am not worth purchasing ; but such as I am, the King of Great Britain is not rich enough to do it.
Seite 586 - ... feet apart. Of late he has had the surprising sagacity to discover that apples will make pies; and it is a question...
Seite 338 - 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 burnt my house and laid the plantation in ruins. You ought to have considered yourself as my representative, and should have reflected on the bad example of communicating with the enemy, and making a voluntary offer of refreshments to them with a view to prevent a conflagration.
Seite 168 - General went up to see her, and she upbraided him with being in a plot to murder her child. One moment she raved,. another she melted into tears. Sometimes she pressed her infant to her bosom, and lamented its fate, occasioned by the imprudence of its father, in a manner that would have pierced insensibility itself. All the sweetness of beauty, all the loveliness of innocence, all the tenderness of a wife, and all the fondness of a mother showed themselves in her appearance and conduct.
Seite 154 - The person in your possession is Major John Andre, adjutant general to the British army. The influence of one commander in the army of his adversary is an advantage taken in war. A correspondence for this purpose I held ; as confidential (in the present instance) with his Excellency, Sir Henry Clinton. To favor it, I agreed to meet upon ground not within the posts of either army a person, who was to give me intelligence ; I came up in the Vulture man-of-war for this effect, and was fetched by a boat...
Seite 495 - ... offer in their behalf his recommendations to their grateful country, and his prayers to the God of armies. May ample justice be done them here, and may the choicest of Heaven's favors, both here and hereafter, attend those who, under the Divine auspices, have secured innumerable blessings for others. With these wishes, and this benediction, the commander-in-chief is about to retire from service. The curtain of separation will soon be drawn, and the military scene to him will be closed for ever.
Seite 178 - Sir Henry Clinton has been too good to me ; he has been lavish of his kindness ; I am bound to him by too many obligations, and love him too well to bear .the thought that he should reproach himself, or...
Seite 121 - a youth, a mere stripling, small, slender, almost delicate in frame, marching beside a piece of artillery with a cocked hat pulled down over his eyes, apparently lost in thought, with his hand resting on the cannon, and every now and then patting it as he mused, as if it were a favorite horse, or a pet plaything.
Seite 431 - my situation now becomes very critical ; we dare not show a gun to their old batteries, and I expect that their new ones will open to-morrow morning. * * * The safety of the place is, therefore, so precarious, that I cannot recommend that the fleet and army should run great risk in endeavoring to save us," — a generous abnegation of self on the part of the beleaguered commander.