George Washington, Band 1Houghton Mifflin, 1917 - 776 Seiten |
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... British troops in the rebellious Puritan town ; and he saw plainly enough , looming in the background , the final appeal to arms . He wrote to Mason ( April 5 , 1769 ) , that " at a time when our lordly masters in Great Britain will be ...
... British troops in the rebellious Puritan town ; and he saw plainly enough , looming in the background , the final appeal to arms . He wrote to Mason ( April 5 , 1769 ) , that " at a time when our lordly masters in Great Britain will be ...
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... British funds , and that she has no longer resources within herself ? Is there any- thing to be expected from petitioning after this ? Is not the attack upon the liberty and property of the people of Boston , before restitution of the ...
... British funds , and that she has no longer resources within herself ? Is there any- thing to be expected from petitioning after this ? Is not the attack upon the liberty and property of the people of Boston , before restitution of the ...
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... British debts , which struck him as dishonorable . These were plain but pregnant questions , but what we mark in them , and in all his letters of this time , is the absence of constitutional discussion , of which America was then full ...
... British debts , which struck him as dishonorable . These were plain but pregnant questions , but what we mark in them , and in all his letters of this time , is the absence of constitutional discussion , of which America was then full ...
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... British officer at Boston , and an old friend . " Permit me , " he began , " with the freedom of a friend ( for you know I always esteemed you ) , to express my sor- row that fortune should place you in a service that must fix curses to ...
... British officer at Boston , and an old friend . " Permit me , " he began , " with the freedom of a friend ( for you know I always esteemed you ) , to express my sor- row that fortune should place you in a service that must fix curses to ...
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... British , and disap- pointed with his prospects at home ; less adventur- ous than Lee , but also less brilliant , and not much more valuable . Thus the winter wore away ; spring opened , and toward the end of April Washington started ...
... British , and disap- pointed with his prospects at home ; less adventur- ous than Lee , but also less brilliant , and not much more valuable . Thus the winter wore away ; spring opened , and toward the end of April Washington started ...
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