...1773, of the sufferings resulting from the port bill, he is said to have exclaimed, impulsively : " I will raise a thousand men, subsist them at my own expense, and march with them, at their head, for the relief of Boston." He little dreamed at that moment that within two...

...Vernon, he told the people : " We must get ready to do something." The man who had said: " If necessary, I will raise a thousand men, subsist them at my own expense and march to the relief of Boston," was now ready to make good his word. He began to drill soldiers, and wrote...

...Vernon, he told the people : " We must get ready to do something." The man who had said : " If necessary, I will raise a thousand men, subsist them at my own expense and march to the relief of Boston," was now ready to make good his word. He began to drill soldiers, and wrote...

...Vernon, he told the people: "We must get ready to do something." The man who had said: " If necessary, I will raise a thousand men, subsist them at my own expense and march to the relief of Boston," was now ready to make good his word. He began to drill soldiers, and wrote...

...a great speech in the House of Burgesses. " If necessary, I will raise a thousand men," he said, " subsist them at my own expense, and march them to the relief of Boston." But the time for marching to Boston had not quite come. The delegates from the different colonies met...

...made a great speech in the House of Burgesses. "If necessary, I will raise a thousand men," he said, "subsist them at my own expense, and march them to the relief of Boston." But the time for marching to Boston had not quite come. The delegates from the different colonies met...

...sent fish, and other towns grain. Warm sympathy came from Virginia. " If need be," said Washington, " I will raise a thousand men, subsist them at my own expense, and march myself at their head for the relief of Boston." In fact all the colonies took up the cause of Boston...

...was a representative in the meeting of Virginia, and made an eloquent speech in which he declared " I will raise a thousand men, subsist them at my own...expense, and march them to the relief of Boston." The convention chose him a delegate from Virginia to the Continental congress, and he started on his...

...the passage of the Stamp Act in 1765, when Washington was at Williamsburg to represent his county, " he made the most eloquent speech that ever was made,...and march them to the relief of Boston.' " He was chosen one of the Virginia delegates to the Continental Congress. There is no record that Washington...

...the sufferings of Boston, resulting from the enforcement of the Boston Port Bill (qv), he exclaimed: "I will raise a thousand men, subsist them at my own expense, and march with them, at their head, for the relief of Boston." He was one of the six Virginia delegates appointed...