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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 , 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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... victory . In the winter of 1776-77 reports came that a general and an army were to be sent to Canada to invade the colonies from the north by way of Lake Champlain . The news does not seem to have made a very deep impression generally ...
... victory . In the winter of 1776-77 reports came that a general and an army were to be sent to Canada to invade the colonies from the north by way of Lake Champlain . The news does not seem to have made a very deep impression generally ...
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Seite 50 - Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
Seite 334 - Happy in the confirmation of our independence and sovereignty, and pleased with the opportunity afforded the United States of becoming a respectable nation, I resign with satisfaction the appointment I accepted with diffidence ; a diffidence in my abilities to accomplish so arduous a task, which, however, was superseded by a confidence in the rectitude of our cause, the support of the supreme power of the Union and the patronage of Heaven.
Seite 221 - I can assure those gentlemen, that it is a much easier and less distressing thing to draw remonstrances in a comfortable room by a good fireside, than to occupy a cold, bleak hill, and sleep under frost and snow, without clothes or blankets. However, although they seem to have little feeling for the naked and distressed soldiers, I feel superabundantly for them, and, from my soul, I pity those miseries, which it is neither in my power to relieve or prevent.
Seite 323 - I am much at a loss to conceive what part of my conduct could have given encouragement to an address which to me seems big with the greatest mischiefs that can befall my country. If I am not deceived in the knowledge of myself, you could not have found a person to whom your schemes are more disagreeable.
Seite 171 - No man I believe ever had a greater choice of evils and less means to extricate himself from them. However, under a full persuasion of the justice of our cause, I cannot entertain an idea that it will finally sink, though it may remain for some time under a cloud.
Seite 291 - It would have been a less painful circumstance to me to have heard, that, in consequence of your non-compliance with their request, they had burned my house and laid the plantation in ruins.
Seite 87 - The supplicating tears of the women and moving. petitions of the men melt me into such deadly sorrow, that I solemnly declare, if I know my own mind, I could offer myself a willing sacrifice to the butchering enemy, provided that would contribute to the people's ease.
Seite 124 - I will raise a thousand men, subsist them at my own expense, and march with them at their head for the relief of Boston.
Seite 85 - Honored Madam: If it is in my power to avoid going to the Ohio again, I shall; but if the command is pressed upon me by the general voice of the country, and offered upon such terms as cannot be objected against, it would reflect dishonor on me to refuse it...
Seite 252 - ... party disputes and personal quarrels are the great business of the day; whilst the momentous concerns of an empire, a great and accumulating debt, ruined finances, depreciated money, and want of credit, which in its consequences is the want of everything, are but secondary considerations, and postponed from day to day, from week to week, as if our affairs wore the most promising aspect.