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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... thefe were removing , another party came down from the heights , and deceiving major Ballard with offers of fubmiffion , till too near to be prevented , repoffeffed themselves of the battery , from whence they annoyed the garrifon very ...
... thefe were removing , another party came down from the heights , and deceiving major Ballard with offers of fubmiffion , till too near to be prevented , repoffeffed themselves of the battery , from whence they annoyed the garrifon very ...
Page 41
... thefe reafons did not reconcile them to his being put over their heads . They might be the more difgufted from his declaring that no two regiments manoeuvred alike , and that there were hardly two officers in each regiment able to ...
... thefe reafons did not reconcile them to his being put over their heads . They might be the more difgufted from his declaring that no two regiments manoeuvred alike , and that there were hardly two officers in each regiment able to ...
Page 65
... thefe refolves were paffed , between two and three hundred officers had refigned their commiffions , reckoning from last August . ' f General Washington being defirous of effecting an exchange of prisoners , wrote to congrefs , on the ...
... thefe refolves were paffed , between two and three hundred officers had refigned their commiffions , reckoning from last August . ' f General Washington being defirous of effecting an exchange of prisoners , wrote to congrefs , on the ...
Page 74
... thefe United States do ceafe , unless to thofe officers who may be en- titled thereto by any contract made on or before their captivity or furrender : That in return for permiffion given to purchase provifions of the American commif ...
... thefe United States do ceafe , unless to thofe officers who may be en- titled thereto by any contract made on or before their captivity or furrender : That in return for permiffion given to purchase provifions of the American commif ...
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... thefe , as gen . Washington ftrongly fufpected he would do , the independency of the United States must have tottered to the very foundation , if not have been completely fubverted . Whether the plan of making the grand diverfion ...
... thefe , as gen . Washington ftrongly fufpected he would do , the independency of the United States must have tottered to the very foundation , if not have been completely fubverted . Whether the plan of making the grand diverfion ...
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