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, Band 2C.P. Wayne, 1804 |
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... appeared and immedi- ately commenced a furious attack upon the fort , where they were received with great in- trepidity . The Americans fought partly within the stockade , and partly in the surrounding ditch which was nearly filled with ...
... appeared and immedi- ately commenced a furious attack upon the fort , where they were received with great in- trepidity . The Americans fought partly within the stockade , and partly in the surrounding ditch which was nearly filled with ...
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... appeared and strengthened the dif ferent posts . The country was now searched , and the best dispositions made to repel another invasion . The fort at Winchester was com- menced which , in honour of the general , who was ordered to take ...
... appeared and strengthened the dif ferent posts . The country was now searched , and the best dispositions made to repel another invasion . The fort at Winchester was com- menced which , in honour of the general , who was ordered to take ...
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... appeared at Dickenson's fort , where the Indians ran down , caught several children that were playing under the walls , and had got to the gate before they were discovered . Was not Vass's fort surprised , and a good many souls lost in ...
... appeared at Dickenson's fort , where the Indians ran down , caught several children that were playing under the walls , and had got to the gate before they were discovered . Was not Vass's fort surprised , and a good many souls lost in ...
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... behind my back . " It is uncertain in what light my services may have appeared to your honour : but this I know , and it is the highest consolation I am 1757 . CHAP . I. capable of feeling , that no man GEORGE WASHINGTON . 53.
... behind my back . " It is uncertain in what light my services may have appeared to your honour : but this I know , and it is the highest consolation I am 1757 . CHAP . I. capable of feeling , that no man GEORGE WASHINGTON . 53.
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... appearance of glory which we once had in view .... that hope .... that laudable ambition of serving our country , and meriting its applause , are now no more ; all is dwindled into ease , sloth , and fatal inactivity . In a word , all ...
... appearance of glory which we once had in view .... that hope .... that laudable ambition of serving our country , and meriting its applause , are now no more ; all is dwindled into ease , sloth , and fatal inactivity . In a word , all ...
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Seite 223 - Lest this declaration should disquiet the minds of our friends and fellow-subjects in any part of the empire, we assure them that we mean not to dissolve that union which has so long and so happily subsisted between us. and which we sincerely wish to see restored.
Seite 453 - Our situation is truly distressing. The check our detachment sustained on the 27th ultimo has dispirited too great a proportion of our troops and filled their minds with apprehension and despair. The militia, instead of calling forth their utmost efforts to a brave and manly opposition in order to repair our losses, are dismayed, intractable, and impatient to return. Great numbers of them have gone off — in some instances almost by whole regiments, by half ones, and by companies at a time.
Seite 31 - Britain; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.
Seite 49 - That the keeping a standing army in these Colonies, in times of peace, without the consent of the legislature of that Colony in which such army is kept, is against law.
Seite 46 - That by such emigration they by no means forfeited, surrendered, or lost any of those rights, but that they were, and their descendants now are, entitled to the exercise and enjoyment of all such of them, as their local and other circumstances enable them to exercise and enjoy.
Seite 222 - Creator hath graciously bestowed upon us, the arms we have been compelled by our enemies to assume, we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverance, employ for the preservation of our liberties ; being -with one mind resolved to die FREEMEN rather than to live SLAVES.
Seite 17 - ... jammed in the ice, in such a manner that we expected every moment our raft to sink, and ourselves to perish. I put out my setting-pole to try to stop the raft, that the ice might pass by, when the rapidity of the stream threw it with so much violence against the pole, that it jerked me out into ten feet water, but I fortunately saved myself by catching hold of one of the raft logs. Notwithstanding all our efforts we could not get the raft to either shore, but were obliged, as we were near an...
Seite 47 - That the respective colonies are entitled to the common law of England, and more especially to the great and inestimable privilege of being tried by their peers of the vicinage, according to the course of that law.
Seite 221 - But why should we enumerate our injuries in detail ? By one statute it is declared, that Parliament can " of right make laws to bind us in all cases whatsoever." What is to defend us against so enormous, so unlimited a power? Not a single man of those who assume it, is chosen by us ; or is subject to our...
Seite 48 - It is indispensably necessary to good government, and rendered essential by the English constitution, that the constituent branches of the legislature be independent of each other; that, therefore, the exercise of legislative power in several colonies, by a council appointed, during pleasure, by the crown, is unconstitutional, dangerous and destructive to the freedom of American legislation.