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 Hon. 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, Band 4Richard Phillips, 1805 |
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... garrison made prisoners . CHAPTER IV . Saint Lucia taken by the British ; Saint Vincent's and Grenada by the French . Count d'Estaing with his fleet 59 91 Wilmington . Greene advances to Ramsay's Mills , with a iv CONTENTS .
... garrison made prisoners . CHAPTER IV . Saint Lucia taken by the British ; Saint Vincent's and Grenada by the French . Count d'Estaing with his fleet 59 91 Wilmington . Greene advances to Ramsay's Mills , with a iv CONTENTS .
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... garrison of Fort Moultrie surrender themselves prisoners of war . Colonel White defeated by Tarleton . General Lincoln capitulates . Burford defeated . Sir Henry Clinton takes measures for settling the government of South Carolina and ...
... garrison of Fort Moultrie surrender themselves prisoners of war . Colonel White defeated by Tarleton . General Lincoln capitulates . Burford defeated . Sir Henry Clinton takes measures for settling the government of South Carolina and ...
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... garrison and inhabitants butchered - Wilksborough also sur- renders , and meets the same fate - Distresses of the settlers in Wyoming - Colonel Alden surprised , and with some of his party killed - Colonel Clark sur- prises St. Vincent ...
... garrison and inhabitants butchered - Wilksborough also sur- renders , and meets the same fate - Distresses of the settlers in Wyoming - Colonel Alden surprised , and with some of his party killed - Colonel Clark sur- prises St. Vincent ...
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... garrison , on surrendering the fort ? Uniting to Spartan brevity more than cannibal ferocity , this tutored savage answered in two words- " The hatchet . " * Having lost great part of his garrison , being unable to hold out longer , and ...
... garrison , on surrendering the fort ? Uniting to Spartan brevity more than cannibal ferocity , this tutored savage answered in two words- " The hatchet . " * Having lost great part of his garrison , being unable to hold out longer , and ...
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... garrison prisoners of war . With a few of his immediate agents and counsellors , who had been instrumental in the savage barbarities he had en- couraged , he was by order of the executive of Vir- ginia put in irons and confined in a ...
... garrison prisoners of war . With a few of his immediate agents and counsellors , who had been instrumental in the savage barbarities he had en- couraged , he was by order of the executive of Vir- ginia put in irons and confined in a ...
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