The History of the Rise, Progress, and Establishment, of the Independence of the United States of America: Including an Account of the Late War; and of the Thirteen Colonies, from Their Origin to that Period, Volume 3Author, 1788 - Great Britain |
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... read on the fpecial bufinefs of examining the con- ftitution agreed upon by the Maffachusetts convention . P. 407 , lak line , read and two which had fuffered lefs , into Cadiz . THE RISE , PROGRESS , AND CONCLUSION OF THE NORTH CONTENTS .
... read on the fpecial bufinefs of examining the con- ftitution agreed upon by the Maffachusetts convention . P. 407 , lak line , read and two which had fuffered lefs , into Cadiz . THE RISE , PROGRESS , AND CONCLUSION OF THE NORTH CONTENTS .
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... fuffered not only in the assault but in the approach to and retreat from the fort , by the fire of the American gallies and floating batteries . The whole lofs was probably not lefs than 4 or 500 men . Congress have fince refolved to ...
... fuffered not only in the assault but in the approach to and retreat from the fort , by the fire of the American gallies and floating batteries . The whole lofs was probably not lefs than 4 or 500 men . Congress have fince refolved to ...
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... fuffered the treatment which you mention . This was without my privity or confent ; as foon as I was apprized of it , relief was ordered . But furely this event , which happened fo long ago , will not authorize the charges in your ...
... fuffered the treatment which you mention . This was without my privity or confent ; as foon as I was apprized of it , relief was ordered . But furely this event , which happened fo long ago , will not authorize the charges in your ...
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... fuffered greatly for the want thereof during their confinement . " This ill treat- ment of the American prifoners , though it fhortens the lives of numbers , tends only to lengthen the war , by irritating the people at large , among ...
... fuffered greatly for the want thereof during their confinement . " This ill treat- ment of the American prifoners , though it fhortens the lives of numbers , tends only to lengthen the war , by irritating the people at large , among ...
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... fuffered . The next , being the laft day of the year , they had under con- 31. fideration , the information fent them from Boston by Mr. Samuel Otis , their deputy clothier general in the Maffachusetts , acquainting them , that he had ...
... fuffered . The next , being the laft day of the year , they had under con- 31. fideration , the information fent them from Boston by Mr. Samuel Otis , their deputy clothier general in the Maffachusetts , acquainting them , that he had ...
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