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... CAMPAIGN ROBERT GOULD SHAW . CHARLES RUSSELL LOWELL SHERIDAN AT CEDAR CREEK . LIEUTENANT CUSHING AND RAM " ALBEMARLE ' FARRAGUT AT MOBILE BAY ABRAHAM LINCOLN · H. C. Lodge Theodore Roosevelt . 225 · 237 • H. C. Lodge . • • 249 · • H. C. ...
... CAMPAIGN ROBERT GOULD SHAW . CHARLES RUSSELL LOWELL SHERIDAN AT CEDAR CREEK . LIEUTENANT CUSHING AND RAM " ALBEMARLE ' FARRAGUT AT MOBILE BAY ABRAHAM LINCOLN · H. C. Lodge Theodore Roosevelt . 225 · 237 • H. C. Lodge . • • 249 · • H. C. ...
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... reported to have said that this was the most brilliant campaign of the century . With a force very much smaller than that of the enemy , Washington had succeeded in 52 he was At Trenton he striking the British at THE BATTLE OF TRENTON 51.
... reported to have said that this was the most brilliant campaign of the century . With a force very much smaller than that of the enemy , Washington had succeeded in 52 he was At Trenton he striking the British at THE BATTLE OF TRENTON 51.
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... campaign was not all . Many great soldiers have not been necessities of the situation . Washington pre- sented the rare combination of a great soldier and great statesman as well . He aimed not only to win battles , but by his ...
... campaign was not all . Many great soldiers have not been necessities of the situation . Washington pre- sented the rare combination of a great soldier and great statesman as well . He aimed not only to win battles , but by his ...
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... campaign . These we may readily believe , were with making its way through on Christmas Eve . It boat was Delaware was a very solemn moment , and he was the only man in the darkness of that night who fully un- derstood what was at stake ...
... campaign . These we may readily believe , were with making its way through on Christmas Eve . It boat was Delaware was a very solemn moment , and he was the only man in the darkness of that night who fully un- derstood what was at stake ...
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... campaign , but it is equally true that the surrender of Burgoyne at Saratoga , in the following autumn , turned the scale deci- sively in favor of the colonists by the impression which it made in Europe . It was the destruction of ...
... campaign , but it is equally true that the surrender of Burgoyne at Saratoga , in the following autumn , turned the scale deci- sively in favor of the colonists by the impression which it made in Europe . It was the destruction of ...
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