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... arrival of Lord Loudon , the new commander - in - chief , from whom he expected vigor and improvement . Un- fortunately he was destined to have only fresh disappointment from the new general , for Lord Loudon was merely one more ...
... arrival of Lord Loudon , the new commander - in - chief , from whom he expected vigor and improvement . Un- fortunately he was destined to have only fresh disappointment from the new general , for Lord Loudon was merely one more ...
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... arrived of the withdrawal of the French , the army pressed on , and , with Washington in the van , marched into the smoking ruins of Fort Duquesne , henceforth to be known to the world as Fort Pitt . So closed the first period in ...
... arrived of the withdrawal of the French , the army pressed on , and , with Washington in the van , marched into the smoking ruins of Fort Duquesne , henceforth to be known to the world as Fort Pitt . So closed the first period in ...
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... arrival of 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 ...
... arrival of 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 ...
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... arrived , he noted in his diary that he fasted all day and attended the appointed services . He always meant what he said , being of a simple nature , and when he fasted and prayed there was something ominously earnest about it ...
... arrived , he noted in his diary that he fasted all day and attended the appointed services . He always meant what he said , being of a simple nature , and when he fasted and prayed there was something ominously earnest about it ...
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... arrival , in stopping the address of his council , and publishing a proclamation more be- coming a Turkish bashaw than an English gover- nor , declaring it treason to associate in any man- ner by which the commerce of Great Britain is ...
... arrival , in stopping the address of his council , and publishing a proclamation more be- coming a Turkish bashaw than an English gover- nor , declaring it treason to associate in any man- ner by which the commerce of Great Britain is ...
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