The History of the Rise, Progress, and Establishment of the Independence of the United States of America, Volume 2Samuel Campbell, no. 124, Pearl-street, 1801 - United States "The following work is not confined to the contest between Great Britain and the United States of America, but includes all the other parts of the war which originated from that contest. ... The form of letters, instead of chapters, is not altogether imaginary, as the author, from his arrival in America in 1770, maintained a correspondence with gentlemen in London, Rotterdam and Paris, answering in general to the prefixed dates."--Preface. |
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... fire at New - York , p . 113. Great animosities in the American army , ibid . Congress adopt a new code for the government of the army , p . 114. General Howe lands on Frog's - Neck , p . 116. The Americans , by the advice of general ...
... fire at New - York , p . 113. Great animosities in the American army , ibid . Congress adopt a new code for the government of the army , p . 114. General Howe lands on Frog's - Neck , p . 116. The Americans , by the advice of general ...
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... fire in consequence of my coming , I will chain a hun- dred of their friends together by the neck , and make the house their funeral pile . " He would in all likelihood , have retaliated in some formidable manner . While Clinton ...
... fire in consequence of my coming , I will chain a hun- dred of their friends together by the neck , and make the house their funeral pile . " He would in all likelihood , have retaliated in some formidable manner . While Clinton ...
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... fire . of musketry from Bunker's Hill . This expedition confounded . the amusement carrying on in Boston , at the same instant . र The British soldiers were much afflicted with sickness and the seurvy , occasioned by the want of ...
... fire . of musketry from Bunker's Hill . This expedition confounded . the amusement carrying on in Boston , at the same instant . र The British soldiers were much afflicted with sickness and the seurvy , occasioned by the want of ...
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... fire to the gate with the combustibles prepared for that purpose . The colonel is also to give the signals for the combination of at- tack , which is to begin exactly at five o'clock . ( It is said that capt . Frazer of the emigrants ...
... fire to the gate with the combustibles prepared for that purpose . The colonel is also to give the signals for the combination of at- tack , which is to begin exactly at five o'clock . ( It is said that capt . Frazer of the emigrants ...
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... fire of the enemy from the walls , which kills and wounds numbers , without their being able in the least to annoy them . The field piece not coming up , the advanced party with capt , Morgan's company attack the battery , some firing ...
... fire of the enemy from the walls , which kills and wounds numbers , without their being able in the least to annoy them . The field piece not coming up , the advanced party with capt , Morgan's company attack the battery , some firing ...
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