The Life of George Washington: Commander-in-chief of the American Army Through the Revolutionary War, and the First President of the United StatesPorter & Coates, 1808 - 560 Seiten |
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... invested with new Powers - Success at Trenton , and at Princeton- New Jersey recovered · 71 CHAPTER IV . General Washington disposes his small Force for the Protec- tion of New Jersey - Army inoculated - Abuse of Ameri- can Prisoners ...
... invested with new Powers - Success at Trenton , and at Princeton- New Jersey recovered · 71 CHAPTER IV . General Washington disposes his small Force for the Protec- tion of New Jersey - Army inoculated - Abuse of Ameri- can Prisoners ...
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... invested . He now re- ceived a commission appointing him colonel of this regiment , and commander - in - chief of all the forces , raised and to be raised , in Virginia , with the privilege to name his field officers . He could , in the ...
... invested . He now re- ceived a commission appointing him colonel of this regiment , and commander - in - chief of all the forces , raised and to be raised , in Virginia , with the privilege to name his field officers . He could , in the ...
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... invested with new Powers - Suc- cess at Trenton , and at Princeton - New Jersey recovered . 1776. ] As soon as the necessary arrangements were made in Boston , in the persuasion that the Hudson would be the scene of the next campaign ...
... invested with new Powers - Suc- cess at Trenton , and at Princeton - New Jersey recovered . 1776. ] As soon as the necessary arrangements were made in Boston , in the persuasion that the Hudson would be the scene of the next campaign ...
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... invested him with discretionary powers , to call on the go- vernments of the neighbouring colonies , for such numbers as circumstances should require ; and they empowered him to form those magazines of military stores , which he might ...
... invested him with discretionary powers , to call on the go- vernments of the neighbouring colonies , for such numbers as circumstances should require ; and they empowered him to form those magazines of military stores , which he might ...
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... invested by Congress , and in no other cha- racter could he have my intercourse with his lord- ship . " Congress , by a formal resolution , approv ed the dignified conduct of their general , and directed , " That no letter or message be ...
... invested by Congress , and in no other cha- racter could he have my intercourse with his lord- ship . " Congress , by a formal resolution , approv ed the dignified conduct of their general , and directed , " That no letter or message be ...
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