Pictorial Life of George Washington: Embracing a Complete History of the Seven Years' War, the Revolutionary War, the Formation of the Federal Constitution, and the Administration of Washington |
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... American ; with cornstalks for muskets , and calabashes for drums , they would form into line , and march and counter - march , and file off , or fight their harmless battles with great interest . George always led the American army ...
... American ; with cornstalks for muskets , and calabashes for drums , they would form into line , and march and counter - march , and file off , or fight their harmless battles with great interest . George always led the American army ...
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... America as would compel the French to retire from their present advanced position , and , for the future , keep within ... American regulars and Indians ; the third , was an expedition against Crown Point , to be undertaken by a regiment ...
... America as would compel the French to retire from their present advanced position , and , for the future , keep within ... American regulars and Indians ; the third , was an expedition against Crown Point , to be undertaken by a regiment ...
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... America . Notwithstanding the remonstrances and the powerful reasons offered against this unjust and hazardous ... American colonies . By this act , the instruments of writing in daily use among a commercial people were to be null ...
... America . Notwithstanding the remonstrances and the powerful reasons offered against this unjust and hazardous ... American colonies . By this act , the instruments of writing in daily use among a commercial people were to be null ...
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... America , so great he said had been his agitation for the consequences , that if he could have been carried in his ... America to atoms . But on this ground your success would be hazardous . America , if she fell , would fall like the ...
... America , so great he said had been his agitation for the consequences , that if he could have been carried in his ... America to atoms . But on this ground your success would be hazardous . America , if she fell , would fall like the ...
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... American duties , except that on tea . This reservation was extremely odious to the American colonists , as it was a practical assertion of the right of parliament to impose internal taxes without their consent , the very right which ...
... American duties , except that on tea . This reservation was extremely odious to the American colonists , as it was a practical assertion of the right of parliament to impose internal taxes without their consent , the very right which ...
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