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... REVOLUTION . David Ramsay .. 53 TO THE VETERANS OF 1775 .. .Daniel Webster 55 ENGLAND'S DRUMBEAT . Daniel Webster . 57 THE REVOLUTIONARY ALARM ... .. George Bancroft .. 58 THE GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE .. George Bancroft . 60 YORKTOWN ...
... REVOLUTION . David Ramsay .. 53 TO THE VETERANS OF 1775 .. .Daniel Webster 55 ENGLAND'S DRUMBEAT . Daniel Webster . 57 THE REVOLUTIONARY ALARM ... .. George Bancroft .. 58 THE GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE .. George Bancroft . 60 YORKTOWN ...
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... Revolution , adventurous English hunters and trappers had begun to move westward . Daniel Boone and men of his type had gone through the Cumberland gap into Kentucky , later moved on to Missouri " to get more elbow room , " as Boone ...
... Revolution , adventurous English hunters and trappers had begun to move westward . Daniel Boone and men of his type had gone through the Cumberland gap into Kentucky , later moved on to Missouri " to get more elbow room , " as Boone ...
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... Revolution , and we see that its typical representatives were neither enslaved nor illogical , neither unkempt nor disreputable . The men who made this country , and led it from the beginning , were men of intelligence as well as of ...
... Revolution , and we see that its typical representatives were neither enslaved nor illogical , neither unkempt nor disreputable . The men who made this country , and led it from the beginning , were men of intelligence as well as of ...
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... Revolution they made one - sixth of the total population of the colonies . . . It was no author with Scottish blood in his veins , it was the typical New Englander , George Bancroft , who closed his account of the incoming of the Ulster ...
... Revolution they made one - sixth of the total population of the colonies . . . It was no author with Scottish blood in his veins , it was the typical New Englander , George Bancroft , who closed his account of the incoming of the Ulster ...
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... Revolution to the Civil War , the indomitable Ulster Scots , chiefly from Pennsylvania and the South , were pouring over the Alleghanies , carrying ever westward the frontiers of the country , forming the advance guard of civilization ...
... Revolution to the Civil War , the indomitable Ulster Scots , chiefly from Pennsylvania and the South , were pouring over the Alleghanies , carrying ever westward the frontiers of the country , forming the advance guard of civilization ...
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