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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His active powers revived with the near prospect of decisive action ; he soon recovered his health , so far as to be able to conduct the enterprise on which he was resolved to stake his fame ; and in the execution of it , displayed a ...
His active powers revived with the near prospect of decisive action ; he soon recovered his health , so far as to be able to conduct the enterprise on which he was resolved to stake his fame ; and in the execution of it , displayed a ...
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General Greene no sooner saw the movement than he hurried forward Knox to a high ground in front , whose heavy guns soon began to shake the plain , and make dreadful havoc not only among the advancing columns , but in the force opposed ...
General Greene no sooner saw the movement than he hurried forward Knox to a high ground in front , whose heavy guns soon began to shake the plain , and make dreadful havoc not only among the advancing columns , but in the force opposed ...
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Such was the ardour displayed by the assailants , that all resistance was soon overcome , though at the expense of nearly one hundred men killed and wounded . Of the defenders of the redoubt , eighteen were killed , and one captain and ...
Such was the ardour displayed by the assailants , that all resistance was soon overcome , though at the expense of nearly one hundred men killed and wounded . Of the defenders of the redoubt , eighteen were killed , and one captain and ...
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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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