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... as a boy the gravity of his character mental and physical those about him , and vigor commended him to and his responsibility and military command were put in his hands at an age when most young men 2 FROM AMERICAN HISTORY HERO TALES.
... as a boy the gravity of his character mental and physical those about him , and vigor commended him to and his responsibility and military command were put in his hands at an age when most young men 2 FROM AMERICAN HISTORY HERO TALES.
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... command that the first shots were fired in the war which was to determine whether the North American continent should be French or English . In his earliest expedition he was defeated by the He enemy . Later he was with Braddock , and ...
... command that the first shots were fired in the war which was to determine whether the North American continent should be French or English . In his earliest expedition he was defeated by the He enemy . Later he was with Braddock , and ...
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... command of the army at Cambridge . There is no need to trace him through the events that followed . From the time when he drew his sword under the famous elm the embodiment of the American Revolution , and without him that revolution ...
... command of the army at Cambridge . There is no need to trace him through the events that followed . From the time when he drew his sword under the famous elm the embodiment of the American Revolution , and without him that revolution ...
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... command than Clark had ; and in the fall of that down to Vincennes by stream and portage , in a great fleet of canoes bearing five hundred - British regulars , French partizans , and Indians . The Vincennes Creoles refused to fight ...
... command than Clark had ; and in the fall of that down to Vincennes by stream and portage , in a great fleet of canoes bearing five hundred - British regulars , French partizans , and Indians . The Vincennes Creoles refused to fight ...
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... Command in his various divisions twenty - five thou- sand well - disciplined soldiers , and the conclusion he had reached was not an unreasonable one ; everything , in fact , seemed to confirm his opinion . were coming in and The ...
... Command in his various divisions twenty - five thou- sand well - disciplined soldiers , and the conclusion he had reached was not an unreasonable one ; everything , in fact , seemed to confirm his opinion . were coming in and The ...
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