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Henry Cabot Lodge. of December 14th , the day after Howe began to move , we catch the first glimpse of Trenton . It was a bold spirit that , in the dead of winter , with a broken army , no prospect of reinforcements , and in the midst of ...
Henry Cabot Lodge. of December 14th , the day after Howe began to move , we catch the first glimpse of Trenton . It was a bold spirit that , in the dead of winter , with a broken army , no prospect of reinforcements , and in the midst of ...
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... move- ments of the enemy . But the main army of the colonies , on which all depended , was in a pitiable state . It shifted its character almost from day to day . The curse of short enlistments , so denounced by Washington , made itself ...
... move- ments of the enemy . But the main army of the colonies , on which all depended , was in a pitiable state . It shifted its character almost from day to day . The curse of short enlistments , so denounced by Washington , made itself ...
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... move was made when Gates failed to inform Washington of the surrender , and then held back the troops sent for so urgently by the commander- in - chief , who had sacrificed so much from his own army to secure that of the north . At this ...
... move was made when Gates failed to inform Washington of the surrender , and then held back the troops sent for so urgently by the commander- in - chief , who had sacrificed so much from his own army to secure that of the north . At this ...
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... move feebly forward , saying to Lafayette , " You don't know the British soldiers ; we cannot stand against them . " He made a weak attempt to cut off a covering party , marched and countermarched , ordered and countermanded , until ...
... move feebly forward , saying to Lafayette , " You don't know the British soldiers ; we cannot stand against them . " He made a weak attempt to cut off a covering party , marched and countermarched , ordered and countermanded , until ...
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... move- ments of thirteen sovereignties , prevented their adoption until the war was nearly over . Washing- ton , suffering from all the complicated troubles of jarring States and general incoherence , longed for and urged the adoption of ...
... move- ments of thirteen sovereignties , prevented their adoption until the war was nearly over . Washing- ton , suffering from all the complicated troubles of jarring States and general incoherence , longed for and urged the adoption of ...
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