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... expedition a moment and to consider attentively this journal which recounts it , for there are very few incidents or documents which tell us more of Washington . He was not yet twenty - two when he faced this first grave responsibility ...
... expedition a moment and to consider attentively this journal which recounts it , for there are very few incidents or documents which tell us more of Washington . He was not yet twenty - two when he faced this first grave responsibility ...
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... expedition , with- out any other reward than the satisfaction of serv- ing my country ; but to be slaving dangerously for the shadow of pay , through woods , rocks , moun- tains , I would rather prefer the great toil of a daily laborer ...
... expedition , with- out any other reward than the satisfaction of serv- ing my country ; but to be slaving dangerously for the shadow of pay , through woods , rocks , moun- tains , I would rather prefer the great toil of a daily laborer ...
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... expedition . They were seeking to surprise the English when the Eng- lish surprised them , with the usual backwoods re- sult . The affair has a dramatic interest because it was the first blood shed in a great struggle , and was the ...
... expedition . They were seeking to surprise the English when the Eng- lish surprised them , with the usual backwoods re- sult . The affair has a dramatic interest because it was the first blood shed in a great struggle , and was the ...
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... into the Causes of the Alienation of the Delaware and Shawanese Indians , etc. London , 1759. By Charles Thomson , afterwards Secretary of Congress . whole expedition was rash in the extreme . When Washington 74 GEORGE WASHINGTON .
... into the Causes of the Alienation of the Delaware and Shawanese Indians , etc. London , 1759. By Charles Thomson , afterwards Secretary of Congress . whole expedition was rash in the extreme . When Washington 74 GEORGE WASHINGTON .
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Henry Cabot Lodge. whole expedition was rash in the extreme . When Washington left Will's Creek he was aware that he was going to meet a force of a thousand men with only a hundred and fifty raw recruits at his back . In the same spirit ...
Henry Cabot Lodge. whole expedition was rash in the extreme . When Washington left Will's Creek he was aware that he was going to meet a force of a thousand men with only a hundred and fifty raw recruits at his back . In the same spirit ...
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