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 Washington |
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From this point , as his centre of operations , though it has been called his winter - quarters , he threw out detachments which overran East and West Jersey , crossed the Raritan , and penetrated into the county of Essex , where they ...
From this point , as his centre of operations , though it has been called his winter - quarters , he threw out detachments which overran East and West Jersey , crossed the Raritan , and penetrated into the county of Essex , where they ...
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For nearly two months the operations on the river were conducted with varied success , the British being sometimes repulsed , and sometimes partially successful in their attacks on the American forts , Mifflin , on Mud Island , in the ...
For nearly two months the operations on the river were conducted with varied success , the British being sometimes repulsed , and sometimes partially successful in their attacks on the American forts , Mifflin , on Mud Island , in the ...
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A committee was appointed to confer with him on the operations of the coming campaign . Such was the strength and cogency of the arguments which he used to convince this committee of the impracticability of the Canada expedition ...
A committee was appointed to confer with him on the operations of the coming campaign . Such was the strength and cogency of the arguments which he used to convince this committee of the impracticability of the Canada expedition ...
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| Title | 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 Washington |
| Author | John Frost |
| Publisher | Leary & Getz, 1854 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 19 Feb 2008 |
| Length | 588 pages |
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