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... Enquiry into the Causes of the Alienation of the Delaware and Shawanese Indians , etc. London , 1759. By Charles Thomson , afterwards Secretary of Congress . whole expedition was rash in the extreme . When Washington 74 GEORGE WASHINGTON .
... Enquiry into the Causes of the Alienation of the Delaware and Shawanese Indians , etc. London , 1759. By Charles Thomson , afterwards Secretary of Congress . whole expedition was rash in the extreme . When Washington 74 GEORGE WASHINGTON .
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Henry Cabot Lodge. whole expedition was rash in the extreme . When Washington left Will's Creek he was aware that he was going to meet a force of a thousand men with only a hundred and fifty raw recruits at his back . In the same spirit ...
Henry Cabot Lodge. whole expedition was rash in the extreme . When Washington left Will's Creek he was aware that he was going to meet a force of a thousand men with only a hundred and fifty raw recruits at his back . In the same spirit ...
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... whole expedition shows an arbitrary temper and the most reckless courage , valuable qualities , but here unrestrained , and mixed with very little pru- dence . Some important lessons were learned by Washington from the rough teachings ...
... whole expedition shows an arbitrary temper and the most reckless courage , valuable qualities , but here unrestrained , and mixed with very little pru- dence . Some important lessons were learned by Washington from the rough teachings ...
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... whole continent 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 ...
... whole continent 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 ...
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... whole system of society and business . This was the character of the labor by which the plan- tations were worked . Slave labor is well known now to be the most expensive and the worst form of labor that can be employed . In the middle ...
... whole system of society and business . This was the character of the labor by which the plan- tations were worked . Slave labor is well known now to be the most expensive and the worst form of labor that can be employed . In the middle ...
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