George Washington, Band 1Houghton Mifflin, 1917 - 776 Seiten |
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... victory , press on to the very edge of his works and then withdraw in obedience to command . The British generals had their prey so surely , as they believed , that they mercifully decided not to waste life unnecessarily by storming the ...
... victory , press on to the very edge of his works and then withdraw in obedience to command . The British generals had their prey so surely , as they believed , that they mercifully decided not to waste life unnecessarily by storming the ...
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... victory had melted away , and , as a grand result , they had a few hundred prisoners , a stray boat with three camp - followers , and the de- serted works in which they stood . To make such a retreat as this was a feat of arms as great ...
... victory had melted away , and , as a grand result , they had a few hundred prisoners , a stray boat with three camp - followers , and the de- serted works in which they stood . To make such a retreat as this was a feat of arms as great ...
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... victory of Long Is- land , two wasted months , and the American army still untouched . Howe was resolved , however , that his campaign should not be utterly fruitless , and therefore di- rected his attention to the defences of the ...
... victory of Long Is- land , two wasted months , and the American army still untouched . Howe was resolved , however , that his campaign should not be utterly fruitless , and therefore di- rected his attention to the defences of the ...
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... victory , now advanced rapidly under Lord Cornwallis . The crisis of his fate and of the Revolution was upon him . His army was melting away . The militia had almost all disappeared , and regiments whose term of enlistment had expired ...
... victory , now advanced rapidly under Lord Cornwallis . The crisis of his fate and of the Revolution was upon him . His army was melting away . The militia had almost all disappeared , and regiments whose term of enlistment had expired ...
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... victory of skill and endurance which the war could show , and that the question of success lay in its continuance . Leaving Philadelphia , Washington pushed on to the junction of the Brandywine and Christiana Creek , and posted his men ...
... victory of skill and endurance which the war could show , and that the question of success lay in its continuance . Leaving Philadelphia , Washington pushed on to the junction of the Brandywine and Christiana Creek , and posted his men ...
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