The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts, Band 8Ferdinand Andrews, 1839 |
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... it shall be forwarded under careful conductors . The difficulties , which you will experience on the score of * See APPENDIX , No. I. provision and transportation , would have been common to any PART II . ] THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION . 11.
... it shall be forwarded under careful conductors . The difficulties , which you will experience on the score of * See APPENDIX , No. I. provision and transportation , would have been common to any PART II . ] THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION . 11.
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... transportation , would have been common to any other body of troops . They will I know be great , but I depend much upon your assiduity and activity . If the most distant prospect of such an operation as you speak of had been in my mind ...
... transportation , would have been common to any other body of troops . They will I know be great , but I depend much upon your assiduity and activity . If the most distant prospect of such an operation as you speak of had been in my mind ...
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... transportation established upon credit , or funds in the quartermaster's hands to defray the contingent ex- penses of it , we have neither the one nor the other , and all that business , or a great part of it , being done by military ...
... transportation established upon credit , or funds in the quartermaster's hands to defray the contingent ex- penses of it , we have neither the one nor the other , and all that business , or a great part of it , being done by military ...
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... transportation , which last may be most essential in the course of our operations , should it be- come necessary to bring provisions or stores from a distance . I shall be glad to be favored with an answer as soon as possible , with an ...
... transportation , which last may be most essential in the course of our operations , should it be- come necessary to bring provisions or stores from a distance . I shall be glad to be favored with an answer as soon as possible , with an ...
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... transportation . I also solicited the governors of Massachusetts and Connecticut earnestly for a loan of powder . " 24th . Set out on my return to New Windsor . Dined at Farming- ton and lodged at Litchfield . " 25th . Breakfasted at ...
... transportation . I also solicited the governors of Massachusetts and Connecticut earnestly for a loan of powder . " 24th . Set out on my return to New Windsor . Dined at Farming- ton and lodged at Litchfield . " 25th . Breakfasted at ...
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acquainted affairs American appointed arrived assure British campaign Captain Carolina Chesapeake circumstances Colonel command Commander-in-chief communication conduct consequence considered corps Count de Barras Count de Grasse Count de Rochambeau dear Marquis DEAR SIR despatch detachment distress Dobbs's Ferry Earl Cornwallis enclosed endeavour enemy enemy's esteem evacuation Excellency Excellency's execution exertions expected favor fleet force French army garrison give happy Head-Quarters honor hope inform Laurens letter Lord Cornwallis MAJOR-GENERAL Marquis de Lafayette means measures ment military militia naval necessary Newburg object obliged occasion officers operations opinion orders peace Philadelphia pleased pleasure posts present PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS prisoners proper proposed received regiments request respecting Rhode Island River secretary at war sent sentiments Sir Guy Carleton Sir Henry Clinton soldiers soon South Carolina superintendent of finance tion transportation troops United VIII Virginia Washington Weathersfield wish York York Island
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Seite 504 - Happy in the confirmation of our independence and sovereignty, and pleased with the opportunity afforded the United States of becoming a respectable nation, I resign with satisfaction the appointment I accepted with diffidence, — a diffidence in my abilities to accomplish so arduous a task ; which, however, was superseded by a confidence in the rectitude of our cause, the support of the supreme power of the Union, and the patronage of heaven.
Seite 441 - Government, — the free cultivation of Letters, — the unbounded extension of Commerce, — the progressive refinement of Manners — the growing liberality of sentiment, and above all the pure and benign light of Revelation, have had a meliorating influence on Mankind and increased the blessings of Society...
Seite 557 - 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? If you can — go; and carry with you the jest of Tories and the scorn of Whigs — the ridicule, and, what is worse, the pity of the world. Go — starve and be forgotten.
Seite 562 - 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 505 - 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 563 - ... 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 446 - 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 442 - ... 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.
Seite 555 - Age has its claims, and rank is not without its pretensions to advice ; but, though unsupported by both, he flatters himself, that the plain language of sincerity and experience will neither 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...
Seite 504 - This is the last letter I shall write, while I continue in the service of my country. The hour of my resignation is fixed at twelve to-day; after which I shall become a private citizen on the banks of the Potomac...