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... baggage might cross the Hudson on the ice . The veteran Knyphausen began to apprehend an invasion , and took measures accordingly : the seamen of the ships and transports were landed and formed into companies , and the inhabitants of ...
... baggage might cross the Hudson on the ice . The veteran Knyphausen began to apprehend an invasion , and took measures accordingly : the seamen of the ships and transports were landed and formed into companies , and the inhabitants of ...
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... baggage , " or , at best , to gain subsist- ence at the point of the bayonet . " Colonel Meigs , while endeavoring to suppress the mutiny , was struck by one of the soldiers . Some officers of the Pennsyl- vania line came to his ...
... baggage , " or , at best , to gain subsist- ence at the point of the bayonet . " Colonel Meigs , while endeavoring to suppress the mutiny , was struck by one of the soldiers . Some officers of the Pennsyl- vania line came to his ...
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... baggage , but were to remain prisoners of war . The officers of the army and navy were to retain their servants , swords and pistols , and their baggage un- searched ; and were permitted to sell their horses ; but not to remove them out ...
... baggage , but were to remain prisoners of war . The officers of the army and navy were to retain their servants , swords and pistols , and their baggage un- searched ; and were permitted to sell their horses ; but not to remove them out ...
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... baggage in the advance . Fifty prisoners were all that were in a condition to be carried off by Tarleton as trophies of this butchery . 1780. ] WAXHAW MASSACRE . 59 The whole British loss 58 [ 1780 . LIFE OF WASHINGTON .
... baggage in the advance . Fifty prisoners were all that were in a condition to be carried off by Tarleton as trophies of this butchery . 1780. ] WAXHAW MASSACRE . 59 The whole British loss 58 [ 1780 . LIFE OF WASHINGTON .
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... baggage has also been sent across , and their wounded . It is not ascertained that any of their infantry have passed on the other side . * * The present movement may be calculated to draw us down and betray us into an action . They may ...
... baggage has also been sent across , and their wounded . It is not ascertained that any of their infantry have passed on the other side . * * The present movement may be calculated to draw us down and betray us into an action . They may ...
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Seite 430 - States at large, and particularly for their brethren who have served in the field ; and finally, that he would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all to do justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that charity, humility, and pacific temper of mind, which were the characteristics of the Divine Author of our blessed religion, and without an humble imitation of whose example in these things, we can never hope to be a happy nation.
Seite 505 - About ten o'clock I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and to domestic felicity, and with a mind oppressed with more anxious and painful sensations than I have words to express, set out for New York, in company with Mr.
Seite 437 - 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-inchief 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 293 - 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 429 - These are the pillars on which the glorious fabric of our independency and national character must be supported. Liberty is the basis; and whoever would dare to sap the foundation, or overturn the structure, under whatever specious pretext he may attempt it, will merit the bitterest execration, and the severest punishment, which can be inflicted by his injured country.
Seite 491 - I feel, my dear General Knox, infinitely more than I can express to you, for the disorders, which have arisen in these States. Good God ! Who, besides a Tory, could have foreseen, or a Briton predicted them...
Seite 434 - I could not help taking a more contemplative and extensive view of the vast inland navigation of these United States, from maps and the information of others ; and could not but be struck with the immense diffusion and importance of it, and with the goodness of that Providence, which has dealt her favors to us with so profuse a hand. Would to God we may have wisdom enough to improve them. I shall not rest contented, till I have explored the western country, and traversed those lines, or great part...
Seite 447 - At length, my dear Marquis, I have become a private citizen on the banks of the Potomac, and, under the shadow of my own vine and my own fig tree, free from the bustle of a camp, and the busy scenes of public life, I 'am solacing myself with those tranquil enjoyments, of 'which the soldier, who is ever in pursuit of fame— the statesman whose watchful days and sleepless nights are -spent in devising schemes to promote the welfare of his own, perhaps the ruin of other countries, as if this globe...
Seite 445 - You have conducted the great military contest with wisdom and fortitude, invariably regarding the rights of the civil power through all disasters and changes.
Seite 119 - In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways. 7 The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.