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... ground , but he never wavered in his belief that all attempts to oppress the colo- nies should be resisted , and when he once took up his position there was no shadow of turning . He was one of Virginia's delegates to the first ...
... ground , but he never wavered in his belief that all attempts to oppress the colo- nies should be resisted , and when he once took up his position there was no shadow of turning . He was one of Virginia's delegates to the first ...
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... ground like any other frontiersman . ghany Mountains still marked a boundary beyond which the settlers dared not go ; for west of them lay immense reaches of frowning forest , uninhab- ited save by bands of warlike Indians . sionally ...
... ground like any other frontiersman . ghany Mountains still marked a boundary beyond which the settlers dared not go ; for west of them lay immense reaches of frowning forest , uninhab- ited save by bands of warlike Indians . sionally ...
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... ground . " But when Boone first saw it , running waters , where the open forest grew of game grazed , roaming ceaselessly to and fro tall and beautiful , and where innumerable herds along the trails they had trodden during countless and ...
... ground . " But when Boone first saw it , running waters , where the open forest grew of game grazed , roaming ceaselessly to and fro tall and beautiful , and where innumerable herds along the trails they had trodden during countless and ...
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... ground Which breathes of nations saved , not worlds undone . How sweetly on the ear such echoes sound ! While the mere victor's The servile may appal or stun and the vain , such names will be A watchword till the future shall be free ...
... ground Which breathes of nations saved , not worlds undone . How sweetly on the ear such echoes sound ! While the mere victor's The servile may appal or stun and the vain , such names will be A watchword till the future shall be free ...
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... ground . numbers of the It is difficult to get at the exact American troops , but Stark seems to have had between fifteen hundred and two thou- sand militia . He thus outnumbered his enemy Dearly three to one , b ut his men were merely ...
... ground . numbers of the It is difficult to get at the exact American troops , but Stark seems to have had between fifteen hundred and two thou- sand militia . He thus outnumbered his enemy Dearly three to one , b ut his men were merely ...
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