Blanche of Brandywine: Or, September the Eleventh, 1777. A Romance, Combining the Poetry, Legend, and History of the Battle of Brandywine |
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... British army . ne gauu , er orna . d button s slender. nose, and thin and well formed, yet expressionless ...
... British army . ne gauu , er orna . d button s slender. nose, and thin and well formed, yet expressionless ...
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... British or to the rebel army ? The old man fights for the side that pays best - so do I ! " " We shall meet in the hour of battle - we shall meet in the hour of death ! " cried Walter Walford raising his hand on high while the head of ...
... British or to the rebel army ? The old man fights for the side that pays best - so do I ! " " We shall meet in the hour of battle - we shall meet in the hour of death ! " cried Walter Walford raising his hand on high while the head of ...
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... British army . He beat the savages back - with his own unaided arm , he beat them back , and that very night , while the silence of her desolate home gathered around her , Adele Randulph , over the lifeless corse of her father ...
... British army . He beat the savages back - with his own unaided arm , he beat them back , and that very night , while the silence of her desolate home gathered around her , Adele Randulph , over the lifeless corse of her father ...
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... British army , one Gilbert Gates , a spy in the employ of the British , living near Brenton's , Ford , and one David Walford , captain of a band of Tory Partizans , -I ac- cuse these men of the wilful murder of Jacob Mayland , the one ...
... British army , one Gilbert Gates , a spy in the employ of the British , living near Brenton's , Ford , and one David Walford , captain of a band of Tory Partizans , -I ac- cuse these men of the wilful murder of Jacob Mayland , the one ...
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... British yesterday took post , as our information serves to tell us , at Kennet's Square , seven miles beyond the ... army , lies posted here , with General Wayne at their head . General you will fight to day , on the ground of your ...
... British yesterday took post , as our information serves to tell us , at Kennet's Square , seven miles beyond the ... army , lies posted here , with General Wayne at their head . General you will fight to day , on the ground of your ...
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Page 286 - These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
Page 287 - But, before the line of irrecoverable separation be drawn between us, let us reason the matter together: Your conduct is an invitation to the enemy, yet not one in a thousand of you has heart enough to join him. Howe is as much deceived by you as the American cause is injured by you.
Page 66 - You see," said Mr. Pecksniff, passing the candle rapidly from roll to roll of paper, "some traces of our doings here. Salisbury Cathedral from the north. From the south. From the east. From the west. From the south-east. From the nor'-west. A bridge. An alms-house. A jail. A church. A powder-magazine. A wine-cellar. A portico. A summer-house. An ice-house. Plans, elevations, sections, every kind of thing. And this...