George Washington, Band 1Houghton Mifflin, 1917 - 776 Seiten |
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... Soon after his recovery Washington returned to Virginia , arriving there in February , 1752. The diary concluded with a brief but perfectly effective description of Barbadoes , touching on its resources and scenery , its government and ...
... Soon after his recovery Washington returned to Virginia , arriving there in February , 1752. The diary concluded with a brief but perfectly effective description of Barbadoes , touching on its resources and scenery , its government and ...
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... 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 youth . Yet this boyish outburst , foolish as it was , has a meaning to us , for it was essentially true ...
... 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 youth . Yet this boyish outburst , foolish as it was , has a meaning to us , for it was essentially true ...
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... soon as his fever abated a little he left Col- onel Dunbar , and , being unable to sit on a horse , was conveyed to the front in a wagon , coming up with the army on July 8th . He was just in time , for the next day the troops forded ...
... soon as his fever abated a little he left Col- onel Dunbar , and , being unable to sit on a horse , was conveyed to the front in a wagon , coming up with the army on July 8th . He was just in time , for the next day the troops forded ...
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... soon understood , that English troops were not in- vincible , that they could be beaten by Indians , and that they were after all much like other men . This was the knowledge , fatal to British suprem- acy , which Braddock's defeat ...
... soon understood , that English troops were not in- vincible , that they could be beaten by Indians , and that they were after all much like other men . This was the knowledge , fatal to British suprem- acy , which Braddock's defeat ...
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... soon as Fort Duquesne had fallen he hurried home , re- signed his commission in the last week of Decem- ber , and was married on January 6 , 1759. It was a brilliant wedding party which assembled on that winter day in the little church ...
... soon as Fort Duquesne had fallen he hurried home , re- signed his commission in the last week of Decem- ber , and was married on January 6 , 1759. It was a brilliant wedding party which assembled on that winter day in the little church ...
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