Life of George Washington...J. Stockdale, 1808 - 560 Seiten |
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... Wash- ington in one volume , reasonable in its price , he should enable those of his fellow citizens , who are not in posses- sion of Marshall , to leave to their posterity the memorial of a man who was pre - eminently distinguished as ...
... Wash- ington in one volume , reasonable in its price , he should enable those of his fellow citizens , who are not in posses- sion of Marshall , to leave to their posterity the memorial of a man who was pre - eminently distinguished as ...
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... Wash- ington to imply , that Mr. Iumonville , in the first action , was killed ; but which literally would bear the translation , was assassinated . In answer to a publication of M. de Villier , Colonel Washing- ton , soon after the ...
... Wash- ington to imply , that Mr. Iumonville , in the first action , was killed ; but which literally would bear the translation , was assassinated . In answer to a publication of M. de Villier , Colonel Washing- ton , soon after the ...
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... Wash- ington , trying , indeed , to a commander of his youth and degree of experience , but proving an excellent school in which to form the general of the revolutionary war . With an incompetent force he was to defend a frontier of ...
... Wash- ington , trying , indeed , to a commander of his youth and degree of experience , but proving an excellent school in which to form the general of the revolutionary war . With an incompetent force he was to defend a frontier of ...
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... Wash- ington entered on the duties of his commission . Having put the recruiting service in operation , he visited the line of posts on the frontiers , and esta- blished the best regulations their state admitted , to keep the petty ...
... Wash- ington entered on the duties of his commission . Having put the recruiting service in operation , he visited the line of posts on the frontiers , and esta- blished the best regulations their state admitted , to keep the petty ...
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... Wash- ington objected to the measure , because the de- tachment would be exposed to the whole force of the enemy on the Ohio , and must be defeated . The plan was in consequence given up ; and by his advice frequent scouts , consisting ...
... Wash- ington objected to the measure , because the de- tachment would be exposed to the whole force of the enemy on the Ohio , and must be defeated . The plan was in consequence given up ; and by his advice frequent scouts , consisting ...
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