...Philadelphia, congress adjourned to Baltimorer having previously invested general Washington with " full power to order and direct all things relative to the department, and to the operations of war." Such unlimited authority could not have been. placed in hands more worthy to hold it. To the elastic...

...Philadelphia, congress adjourned to Baltimore, having previously invested General Washington with "full power to order and direct all things relative to the department, and to the operations of war." Such unlimited authority could not have been placed in hands more worthy lo hold it. To the elastic...

...time " Resolved, that, until Congress shall otherwise order, General Washington be possessed of full power to order and direct all things relative to the department and to the operations of war." Under this general power he was of course authorized to recruit men and order them into the service...

...time " Resolved, that, until Congress shall otherwise order, General Washington be possessed of full power to order and direct all things relative to the department and to the operations of war." Under this general power he was of course authorized to recruit men and order them into the service...

...days at Baltimore, resolving at the same time, "that general Washington should be possessed of full power to order and direct all things relative to the department and operations of war." The activity of the British in the close of the campaign, seemed in some measure...

...assembled ; * and that, until the Congress shall otherwise order, General Washington be possessed of full power to order and direct all things relative to the department, and to the operations of war ; and that the several matters to this day referred, be postponed to the day to which Congress is adjourned.'...

...thai, until Congress should otherwise order, full power should be conferred on General Washington, to order, and direct all things relative to the department, and to the operations of war. Under this resolution, the general ventured to order three battalions of artillery to be immediately...

...adjournment, " that until* the Congress shall otherwise order, General Washington be possessed of full power to order and direct all things relative to the department and the operations of war."J Clothed with this power, the commander-in-chief proceeded immediately to recruit...

...cannot entertain an idea that it will finally sink, though it may remain for some time under a cloud." Fortunately, Congress, prior to their adjournment,...things relative to the department and to the operations ol war." Thus empowered, he proceeded immediately to recruit three battalions of artillery. To those...

...winter quarters.. 137. Congress prudently resolved that the commander-inchief should be possessed of power to order and direct all things relative to the department, and to the operations of war. His little army being consolidated and somewhat reenforced, Washington meditated a coup-de-main, which...