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... affair . The Virginians and Marylanders killed half a dozen Indian chiefs during a parley , and then invested the fort . After repulsing several sorties , they stupidly allowed the Indians to escape in the night and carry murder and ...
... affair . The Virginians and Marylanders killed half a dozen Indian chiefs during a parley , and then invested the fort . After repulsing several sorties , they stupidly allowed the Indians to escape in the night and carry murder and ...
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... affairs led to the first attempt to give Washington a start in life , which has been given to us until very lately in a somewhat decorated form . The fact is , that in casting about for something to do , it occurred to some one , very ...
... affairs led to the first attempt to give Washington a start in life , which has been given to us until very lately in a somewhat decorated form . The fact is , that in casting about for something to do , it occurred to some one , very ...
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... affairs into which they were suddenly plunged , they displayed a narrow and provincial spirit . Keenly alive to their own rights and privileges , they were more occupied in quar- relling with Dinwiddie than in prosecuting the war . In ...
... affairs into which they were suddenly plunged , they displayed a narrow and provincial spirit . Keenly alive to their own rights and privileges , they were more occupied in quar- relling with Dinwiddie than in prosecuting the war . In ...
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... affair has a dramatic interest because it was the first blood shed in a great struggle , and was the beginning of a series of world - wide wars and social and political convulsions , which termi- nated more than half a century later on ...
... affair has a dramatic interest because it was the first blood shed in a great struggle , and was the beginning of a series of world - wide wars and social and political convulsions , which termi- nated more than half a century later on ...
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... affair , although he knew that the wilderness about him was swarming with enemies , he still struggled forward . When forced to retreat he made a stand at the Meadows and offered bat tle in the open to his more numerous and more prudent ...
... affair , although he knew that the wilderness about him was swarming with enemies , he still struggled forward . When forced to retreat he made a stand at the Meadows and offered bat tle in the open to his more numerous and more prudent ...
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