The United States of America: Their History from the Earliest Period; Their Industry, Commerce, Banking Transactions, and National Works; Their Institutions and Character, Political, Social, and Literary: with a Survey of the Territory, and Remarks on the Prospects and Plans of Emigrants, Band 2Oliver & Boyd, 1844 |
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... communications with Washington ; but as he did not choose to address him under his title of general , his advances were politely declined . * The British designs had been well concealed , and the American commander remained long in ...
... communications with Washington ; but as he did not choose to address him under his title of general , his advances were politely declined . * The British designs had been well concealed , and the American commander remained long in ...
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... communication with New England . As a preliminary , three frigates were sent up the main stream of the Hudson ; and , notwithstanding the resistance made by Forts Wash- ington and Lee , and by chevaux - de - frize sunk in the channel ...
... communication with New England . As a preliminary , three frigates were sent up the main stream of the Hudson ; and , notwithstanding the resistance made by Forts Wash- ington and Lee , and by chevaux - de - frize sunk in the channel ...
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... communication between the northern and southern states , so as to carry on operations at will against either . It must be owned that Washington repeatedly mentions this plan as probable , and expresses dread from its execution ; † yet ...
... communication between the northern and southern states , so as to carry on operations at will against either . It must be owned that Washington repeatedly mentions this plan as probable , and expresses dread from its execution ; † yet ...
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... communication with congress during the whole period when these ravages were said to have been carried on , he never made the most distant allusion to them ; nay , on one occasion , he laments that the enemy had used every device to ...
... communication with congress during the whole period when these ravages were said to have been carried on , he never made the most distant allusion to them ; nay , on one occasion , he laments that the enemy had used every device to ...
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... communicate with that officer , * which was true ; but surely he himself , as supreme military director , ought to have pointed out the circumstance , and sug- gested the proper course now to be followed . men . About the middle of June ...
... communicate with that officer , * which was true ; but surely he himself , as supreme military director , ought to have pointed out the circumstance , and sug- gested the proper course now to be followed . men . About the middle of June ...
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