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... defeat . Congress would not permit the destruction of the city , different inter- ests pulled in different directions , conflicting opin- ions distracted the councils of war , and , with utter inability to predict the enemy's movements ...
... defeat . Congress would not permit the destruction of the city , different inter- ests pulled in different directions , conflicting opin- ions distracted the councils of war , and , with utter inability to predict the enemy's movements ...
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... defeat , and bring the patriots of the legislature to sudden action , always incomplete , but still ac- tion of some sort . It must have been inexpressibly dreary work , but quite as much was due to those letters as to the battles ...
... defeat , and bring the patriots of the legislature to sudden action , always incomplete , but still ac- tion of some sort . It must have been inexpressibly dreary work , but quite as much was due to those letters as to the battles ...
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... deep , so they , with like success , sought to call soldiers from the earth in the midst of defeat , and in the teeth of a North American winter . Washington , baffling pursuit and flying from town to town SAVING THE REVOLUTION . 171.
... deep , so they , with like success , sought to call soldiers from the earth in the midst of defeat , and in the teeth of a North American winter . Washington , baffling pursuit and flying from town to town SAVING THE REVOLUTION . 171.
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... defeat , and by send- ing fresh life and hope and courage throughout the whole people . It was the decisive moment of the war . Sooner or later the American colonies were sure to part from the mother - country , either peaceably or vio ...
... defeat , and by send- ing fresh life and hope and courage throughout the whole people . It was the decisive moment of the war . Sooner or later the American colonies were sure to part from the mother - country , either peaceably or vio ...
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... defeat thickened , to the high , unbending character , and to the passionate and fighting temper of Washington , we owe the bril- liant campaign which in the darkest hour turned the tide and saved the cause of the Revolution . CHAPTER ...
... defeat thickened , to the high , unbending character , and to the passionate and fighting temper of Washington , we owe the bril- liant campaign which in the darkest hour turned the tide and saved the cause of the Revolution . CHAPTER ...
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