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... battle , and utterly exposed from beginning to end . Even now it makes the heart beat quicker to think of him amid the smoke and slaughter as he dashed hither and thither , his face glowing and his eyes shining with the fierce light of ...
... battle , and utterly exposed from beginning to end . Even now it makes the heart beat quicker to think of him amid the smoke and slaughter as he dashed hither and thither , his face glowing and his eyes shining with the fierce light of ...
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... battle , cool and collected on the retreat , Washington alone emerged from that history of disaster with added glory . Again he comes before us as , above all things , the fighting man , hot - blooded and . fierce in action , and ...
... battle , cool and collected on the retreat , Washington alone emerged from that history of disaster with added glory . Again he comes before us as , above all things , the fighting man , hot - blooded and . fierce in action , and ...
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... knew that this was a question which could be set- tled only by one side giving way , or by the dread appeal to arms . It was a question of fact , hard , unrelenting fact , now to be determined by battle , 132 GEORGE WASHINGTON .
... knew that this was a question which could be set- tled only by one side giving way , or by the dread appeal to arms . It was a question of fact , hard , unrelenting fact , now to be determined by battle , 132 GEORGE WASHINGTON .
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Henry Cabot Lodge. unrelenting fact , now to be determined by battle , and on him had fallen the burden of sustaining the cause of his country . In this spirit he accepted his commission , and rode forth to review the troops . He was ...
Henry Cabot Lodge. unrelenting fact , now to be determined by battle , and on him had fallen the burden of sustaining the cause of his country . In this spirit he accepted his commission , and rode forth to review the troops . He was ...
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... battle and throughout eight years of political strife the men of New England stood by the great Virginian with a devotion and truth in which was no shadow of turning . Here again we see exhibited most conspicuously the powerful ...
... battle and throughout eight years of political strife the men of New England stood by the great Virginian with a devotion and truth in which was no shadow of turning . Here again we see exhibited most conspicuously the powerful ...
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