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... TROOPS WADED IN ICY WATER ' WASHINGTON Directing the Artillery AT TRENTON THE MARCH TO TRENTON AT THE BAYONET'S POINT · CHARGE OF THE AMERICAN FRONTIERSMEN THE STORMING OF STONY POINT • · THE DESTRUCTION OF THE FRIGATE “ PHILADELPHIA ...
... TROOPS WADED IN ICY WATER ' WASHINGTON Directing the Artillery AT TRENTON THE MARCH TO TRENTON AT THE BAYONET'S POINT · CHARGE OF THE AMERICAN FRONTIERSMEN THE STORMING OF STONY POINT • · THE DESTRUCTION OF THE FRIGATE “ PHILADELPHIA ...
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... troops , with arms in their hands , were eager to have him take control of the disordered Country as Cromwell had done in England a little more than a century before . With the army at his back , and supported by the great forces which ...
... troops , with arms in their hands , were eager to have him take control of the disordered Country as Cromwell had done in England a little more than a century before . With the army at his back , and supported by the great forces which ...
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Henry Cabot Lodge, Theodore Roosevelt. Drake 25 . United States , and not under Britain . The surprise. " ALL DAY LONG THE TROOPS WADED IN ICY WATER . "
Henry Cabot Lodge, Theodore Roosevelt. Drake 25 . United States , and not under Britain . The surprise. " ALL DAY LONG THE TROOPS WADED IN ICY WATER . "
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... troops back to Detroit , announcing that when spring came he would march against Clark in Illinois . If Clark in turn had awaited the blow he would have surely met defeat ; but he was a greater man than his antagonist , and he did what ...
... troops back to Detroit , announcing that when spring came he would march against Clark in Illinois . If Clark in turn had awaited the blow he would have surely met defeat ; but he was a greater man than his antagonist , and he did what ...
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... troops waded in the icy water , and at night they could with difficulty find some little hillock on which to sleep . Only Clark's indomitable courage and cheerfulness kept the party severe . in heart and enabled them to per- However ...
... troops waded in the icy water , and at night they could with difficulty find some little hillock on which to sleep . Only Clark's indomitable courage and cheerfulness kept the party severe . in heart and enabled them to per- However ...
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