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... arms , indicating uncommon strength . His light brown hair was drawn back from a broad forehead , and grayish- blue eyes looked happily , and perhaps a trifle so- berly , on the pleasant Virginia world about him . The face was open and ...
... arms , indicating uncommon strength . His light brown hair was drawn back from a broad forehead , and grayish- blue eyes looked happily , and perhaps a trifle so- berly , on the pleasant Virginia world about him . The face was open and ...
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... arms of the Carthagena time , Adjutant Muse , a Virginian , and Jacob Van Braam , a Dutch soldier of fortune . The former instructed Washington in the art of war , tactics , and the manual of arms , the latter in fencing and the sword ...
... arms of the Carthagena time , Adjutant Muse , a Virginian , and Jacob Van Braam , a Dutch soldier of fortune . The former instructed Washington in the art of war , tactics , and the manual of arms , the latter in fencing and the sword ...
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... self with forty men to find the enemy . After a toilsome march they discovered their foes in camp . The French , surprised and surrounded , sprang to arms , the Virginians fired , there was a sharp ON THE FRONTIER . 71.
... self with forty men to find the enemy . After a toilsome march they discovered their foes in camp . The French , surprised and surrounded , sprang to arms , the Virginians fired , there was a sharp ON THE FRONTIER . 71.
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Henry Cabot Lodge. arms , the Virginians fired , there was a sharp ex- change of shots , and all was over . Ten of the French were killed and twenty - one were taken pris- oners , only one of the party escaping to carry back the news ...
Henry Cabot Lodge. arms , the Virginians fired , there was a sharp ex- change of shots , and all was over . Ten of the French were killed and twenty - one were taken pris- oners , only one of the party escaping to carry back the news ...
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... arms , exacting nothing but a pledge that for a year they would not come to the Ohio . So ended Washington's first campaign . His friend the Half - King , the celebrated Seneca chief , Thanacarishon , who prudently departed on the ar ...
... arms , exacting nothing but a pledge that for a year they would not come to the Ohio . So ended Washington's first campaign . His friend the Half - King , the celebrated Seneca chief , Thanacarishon , who prudently departed on the ar ...
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