George Washington, Band 1Houghton Mifflin, 1917 - 776 Seiten |
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... number of French and Indians with cheerful confidence and with real pleasure . He wrote , in a letter which soon became famous , that he loved to hear bullets whistle , a sage obser vation which he set down in later years as a folly of ...
... number of French and Indians with cheerful confidence and with real pleasure . He wrote , in a letter which soon became famous , that he loved to hear bullets whistle , a sage obser vation which he set down in later years as a folly of ...
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... but the British had advantages far more than com- pensating for a disparity of numbers , always slight and often more imaginary than real . They had twelve thousand men , experienced , disciplined , equipped , 150 GEORGE WASHINGTON .
... but the British had advantages far more than com- pensating for a disparity of numbers , always slight and often more imaginary than real . They had twelve thousand men , experienced , disciplined , equipped , 150 GEORGE WASHINGTON .
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... number and disci- pline , and I have never spared the spade and pick- axe . " Every one else , however , saw only past de- feat and present peril . The British ships gradually made their way up the river , until it became apparent that ...
... number and disci- pline , and I have never spared the spade and pick- axe . " Every one else , however , saw only past de- feat and present peril . The British ships gradually made their way up the river , until it became apparent that ...
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... numbers , strongly intrenched , and awaiting his at- tack with confidence . He hesitated , doubted , and finally feeling that he must do something , sent four thousand men to storm Chatterton Hill , an outly- ing post , where some ...
... numbers , strongly intrenched , and awaiting his at- tack with confidence . He hesitated , doubted , and finally feeling that he must do something , sent four thousand men to storm Chatterton Hill , an outly- ing post , where some ...
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... numbers at each point of attack . The Trenton campaign has all the quality of some of the last battles fought by Napoleon in France be- fore his retirement to Elba . Moreover , these battles show not only generalship of the first order ...
... numbers at each point of attack . The Trenton campaign has all the quality of some of the last battles fought by Napoleon in France be- fore his retirement to Elba . Moreover , these battles show not only generalship of the first order ...
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