History of England: From the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Versailles, 1713-1783, Band 6Little, Brown, 1853 |
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... arms ib . Generosity of General Schuyler 188 Numbers on both sides 189 General reflections 190 Hostile feeling of Gates to Washington 192 Washington's noble conduct 193 The Convention troops marched to Massachusetts ib . Their ill ...
... arms ib . Generosity of General Schuyler 188 Numbers on both sides 189 General reflections 190 Hostile feeling of Gates to Washington 192 Washington's noble conduct 193 The Convention troops marched to Massachusetts ib . Their ill ...
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... arms , but he felt the necessity of being prepared for either alternative . With that view he recalled Governor Hutchinson from Boston , and sent in his place a veteran of tried conduct , and high in com- mand of the troops , General ...
... arms , but he felt the necessity of being prepared for either alternative . With that view he recalled Governor Hutchinson from Boston , and sent in his place a veteran of tried conduct , and high in com- mand of the troops , General ...
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... arms . Just after the first blow had been struck Washington referred to them with a feeling of just resentment , though , as usual with him , in a tone of dignified forbearance . " This , " says he , may serve to convince Lord Sandwich ...
... arms . Just after the first blow had been struck Washington referred to them with a feeling of just resentment , though , as usual with him , in a tone of dignified forbearance . " This , " says he , may serve to convince Lord Sandwich ...
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... arms at least once in every week . According to the terms of the recent Act of Parlia- ment thirty - six persons had been named by the Crown as members of the Council for this province , but only twenty - four would consent to take the ...
... arms at least once in every week . According to the terms of the recent Act of Parlia- ment thirty - six persons had been named by the Crown as members of the Council for this province , but only twenty - four would consent to take the ...
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... arms at a minute's warning . minute's warning . To guard against such projects a Royal Proclamation was issued in England forbidding the export of arms and ammuni- tion to the Colonies . The news of that Proclamation added fuel to the ...
... arms at a minute's warning . minute's warning . To guard against such projects a Royal Proclamation was issued in England forbidding the export of arms and ammuni- tion to the Colonies . The news of that Proclamation added fuel to the ...
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Acts Address Admiral afterwards American Archives appeared appointed arms army Assembly battle Bill Britain British troops Bunker's Hill Burgoyne Burke called Canada Captain chief Clinton Colonel Colonies command Congress Correspondence Council Crown declared deemed defence despatched Duke of Grafton Earl enemy England English ensued favour Fayette feeling fire force France Franklin French friends Gage Government Governor honour hope House of Commons Hugh Palliser ington Island Jared Sparks Keppel King King's La Fayette land late least less letter Lord Camden Lord Chatham Lord John Cavendish Lord North Lord Rockingham Lord Shelburne Majesty March Massachusetts measure ment Militia Ministers months never observed occasion officers Opposition Parliament party passed peace period Philadelphia present President province rank Reed repeal Resolutions Royal says sent ships side Silas Deane Sparks Sparks's speech spirit tion town treaty vote voyage Washington whole words Writings York
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Seite 60 - ... we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained, we must fight ; I repeat it. sir, we must fight ! An appeal to arms, and to the God of Hosts, is all that is left us ! They tell us, sir, that we are weak, unable to cope with so formidable an adversary.
Seite 329 - GOD ALMIGHTY first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross...
Seite 203 - ... against your Protestant brethren; to lay waste their country, to desolate their dwellings, and extirpate their race and name, with these horrible hell-hounds of savage war! — hell-hounds, I say, of savage war.
Seite 21 - I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
Seite 263 - ... the peerage more than I do ; — but, my lords, I must say, that the peerage solicited me, not I the peerage. Nay more, I can say, and will say, that as a peer of parliament, as speaker of this right...
Seite 48 - His violent prejudice against our West Indian and American settlers appeared whenever there was an opportunity. Towards the conclusion of his " Taxation no Tyranny," he says, " how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?
Seite 202 - That God and nature put into our hands ! " I know not what ideas that lord may entertain of God and nature; but I know that such abominable principles are equally abhorrent to religion and humanity. What! to attribute the sacred sanction of God and nature to the massacres of the Indian scalping-knife — to the cannibal savage torturing, murdering...
Seite 34 - If this state of his country had been foretold to him, would it not require all the sanguine credulity of youth, and all the fervid glow of enthusiasm, to make him believe it ? Fortunate man, he has lived to see it...
Seite 320 - My descriptions are all from nature ; not one of them second-handed. My delineations of the heart are from my own experience ; not one of them borrowed from books, or in the least degree conjectural.
Seite 23 - To conclude, my lords, if the ministers thus persevere in misadvising and misleading the king, I will not say, that they can alienate the affections of his subjects from his crown ; but I will affirm, that they will make the crown not worth his wearing. I will not say that the king is betrayed ; but I will pronounce, that the kingdom is undone.