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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... former is said at the battle of Lexington to have exclaimed : - " Oh , what a glorious morning ! " It hap- pened that letters from him , strongly breathing this spirit , and written only a fortnight after the last petition from congress ...
... former is said at the battle of Lexington to have exclaimed : - " Oh , what a glorious morning ! " It hap- pened that letters from him , strongly breathing this spirit , and written only a fortnight after the last petition from congress ...
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... former posi- tion . By possessing himself of Philadelphia he would have separated the two quarters as completely as it was possible ; he would have held two of the four chief Washington's Letters , vol . i . p . 343 . Howe's Despatches ...
... former posi- tion . By possessing himself of Philadelphia he would have separated the two quarters as completely as it was possible ; he would have held two of the four chief Washington's Letters , vol . i . p . 343 . Howe's Despatches ...
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... movement without disadvantage , heightened greatly the favourable impres- sion produced by his former enterprise . The English VOL . II . B general then repaired to Brunswick , and limited him- self TO THE ALLIANCE WITH FRANCE . 25.
... movement without disadvantage , heightened greatly the favourable impres- sion produced by his former enterprise . The English VOL . II . B general then repaired to Brunswick , and limited him- self TO THE ALLIANCE WITH FRANCE . 25.
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... former positions , and not allowed his weak and beaten enemy to reoccupy nearly the whole of the Jerseys . * There is another point which , as it somewhat concerns British honour , we cannot help particularly noticing . According to all ...
... former positions , and not allowed his weak and beaten enemy to reoccupy nearly the whole of the Jerseys . * There is another point which , as it somewhat concerns British honour , we cannot help particularly noticing . According to all ...
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... former seems early to have felt doubts as to the ex- pediency of the path pointed out to him , and request- ed permission , should circumstances require , either to convey his force by sea to New York , doubtless the most eligible plan ...
... former seems early to have felt doubts as to the ex- pediency of the path pointed out to him , and request- ed permission , should circumstances require , either to convey his force by sea to New York , doubtless the most eligible plan ...
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