George Washington, Band 1Houghton Mifflin, 1917 - 776 Seiten |
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... matters while he was at sea and leading a life strangely unfamiliar to a woodsman and pioneer . When they arrived they were imme- diately asked to breakfast and dine with Major Clarke , the military magnate of the place , and our young ...
... matters while he was at sea and leading a life strangely unfamiliar to a woodsman and pioneer . When they arrived they were imme- diately asked to breakfast and dine with Major Clarke , the military magnate of the place , and our young ...
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... matters continued to go badly in the North , and Virginia was left helpless . So Washing- ton toiled on with much discouragement , and the disagreeable attacks upon him increased . That it should have been so is not surprising , for he ...
... matters continued to go badly in the North , and Virginia was left helpless . So Washing- ton toiled on with much discouragement , and the disagreeable attacks upon him increased . That it should have been so is not surprising , for he ...
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... . Lee , the great soldier of the Southern Confederacy . The affair with Miss Cary went on apparently for some years , fitfully pursued in the intervals of war and Indian fighting , and , interrupted also by matters of LOVE AND MARRIAGE .
... . Lee , the great soldier of the Southern Confederacy . The affair with Miss Cary went on apparently for some years , fitfully pursued in the intervals of war and Indian fighting , and , interrupted also by matters of LOVE AND MARRIAGE .
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... matters of a graver sort . When Captain Dagworthy , commanding thirty men in the Maryland service , undertook in virtue of a king's commission to outrank the commander- in - chief of the Virginian forces , Washington made up his mind ...
... matters of a graver sort . When Captain Dagworthy , commanding thirty men in the Maryland service , undertook in virtue of a king's commission to outrank the commander- in - chief of the Virginian forces , Washington made up his mind ...
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... matters all through his career , and which in his youth came out most strongly in the matter of manners and personal ap- pearance . He was a handsome man , and liked to be well dressed and to have everything about him- self or his ...
... matters all through his career , and which in his youth came out most strongly in the matter of manners and personal ap- pearance . He was a handsome man , and liked to be well dressed and to have everything about him- self or his ...
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