The Life of George Washington: Commander in Chief of the American Forces, During the War which Established the Independence of His Country, and First President of the United States. Compiled Under the Inspection of the Honourable Bushrod Washington, from Original Papers ... to which is Prefixed, an Introduction, Containing a Compendious View of the Colonies Planted by the English on the Continent of North America, from Their Settlement to the Commencement of that War which Terminated in Their Independence, Band 2C.P. Wayne., 1804 |
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... immediately , and to fortify . After employing a few days among the Indians in that neighbourhood , and procuring some of their chiefs , whose fidelity he took the most judicious means for securing , to accompany him ; he ascended the ...
... immediately , and to fortify . After employing a few days among the Indians in that neighbourhood , and procuring some of their chiefs , whose fidelity he took the most judicious means for securing , to accompany him ; he ascended the ...
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... Immediately after his arrival at that place , he was visited by some friendly Indians , who informed him that the French had dispossessed a party of workmen employed by the Ohio company to erect a fort on the south eastern branch of the ...
... Immediately after his arrival at that place , he was visited by some friendly Indians , who informed him that the French had dispossessed a party of workmen employed by the Ohio company to erect a fort on the south eastern branch of the ...
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... immediately to attack the English , with a corps composed of eight hundred French , and four hundred Indians . This intelligence was corroborated , by the information already received from deserters , who had come in a few days before ...
... immediately to attack the English , with a corps composed of eight hundred French , and four hundred Indians . This intelligence was corroborated , by the information already received from deserters , who had come in a few days before ...
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... immediately to march over the Alleghany mountains , either to dispossess the French of their fort , or to build one in some proper place in the country . With as little The little army in Virginia , which was placed under the command of ...
... immediately to march over the Alleghany mountains , either to dispossess the French of their fort , or to build one in some proper place in the country . With as little The little army in Virginia , which was placed under the command of ...
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... joined general Brad- dock immediately after his departure from Alexandria , and proceeded with him to Wills ' creek , afterwards called fort Cumberland , where the army was detained , waiting for waggons , CHAP 14 THE LIFE OF.
... joined general Brad- dock immediately after his departure from Alexandria , and proceeded with him to Wills ' creek , afterwards called fort Cumberland , where the army was detained , waiting for waggons , CHAP 14 THE LIFE OF.
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