Pictorial Life of George Washington: Embracing a Complete History of the Seven Years' War, the Revolutionary War, the Formation of the Federal Constitution, and the Administration of WashingtonLeary & Getz, 1853 - 586 pages |
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Page 72
... continued with no signal advantage on either side until dark , when De Villiers de- manded a parley . This was at first refused by Washington , who thought it only a feint to introduce a Frenchman within the en- closure to discover and ...
... continued with no signal advantage on either side until dark , when De Villiers de- manded a parley . This was at first refused by Washington , who thought it only a feint to introduce a Frenchman within the en- closure to discover and ...
Page 208
... continued the blockade of Quebec , a capitulation , from the best accounts I have been able to collect , must inevitably have followed . And that we were not at one time obliged to dispute these lines , under disad- vantageous ...
... continued the blockade of Quebec , a capitulation , from the best accounts I have been able to collect , must inevitably have followed . And that we were not at one time obliged to dispute these lines , under disad- vantageous ...
Page 432
... continued till night . Both sustained considerable damage . The fleets continued in sight of each other for five days ; but De Grasse's object was not to fight unless to cover Chesapeake Bay ; and Admiral Graves , owing to the ...
... continued till night . Both sustained considerable damage . The fleets continued in sight of each other for five days ; but De Grasse's object was not to fight unless to cover Chesapeake Bay ; and Admiral Graves , owing to the ...
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