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... congress , sent to conduct the commander - in - chief to New York . There he tarried long enough to appoint Schuyler to the charge of the military affairs in that colony , having mastered on the journey its complicated so- cial and ...
... congress , sent to conduct the commander - in - chief to New York . There he tarried long enough to appoint Schuyler to the charge of the military affairs in that colony , having mastered on the journey its complicated so- cial and ...
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... congress and the congress of the province . He had to teach them , utterly ignorant as they were of the needs and details of war , how to organize and supply their armies . There was no commissary department , there were no uniforms ...
... congress and the congress of the province . He had to teach them , utterly ignorant as they were of the needs and details of war , how to organize and supply their armies . There was no commissary department , there were no uniforms ...
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... Congress to provide after a fashion for these things , little by little he developed what he needed , and by his own ingenuity , and by seizing alertly every suggestion from others , he supplied for better or worse one deficiency after ...
... Congress to provide after a fashion for these things , little by little he developed what he needed , and by his own ingenuity , and by seizing alertly every suggestion from others , he supplied for better or worse one deficiency after ...
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... Congress expected the impossible , and grumbled because without ships he did not secure the harbor . He himself , while he inwardly resented such criticism , chafed under the monotonous drudgery of the intrenchments . He was longing ...
... Congress expected the impossible , and grumbled because without ships he did not secure the harbor . He himself , while he inwardly resented such criticism , chafed under the monotonous drudgery of the intrenchments . He was longing ...
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... Congress , and strenuous personal efforts , these wants were some- how supplied . Then the men began to get restless and homesick , and both privates and officers would disappear to their farms , which Washington , al- ways impatient of ...
... Congress , and strenuous personal efforts , these wants were some- how supplied . Then the men began to get restless and homesick , and both privates and officers would disappear to their farms , which Washington , al- ways impatient of ...
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