 | Walter Isaacson - 2003 - 607 Seiten
...millions, has killed 150 Yankees this campaign, which is £20,000 a head . . . During the same time, 60,000 children have been born in America. From these data...calculate the time and expense necessary to kill us all." 17 Franklin and his two fellow committee members met with General Washington in Cambridge for a week.... | |
 | Walter Isaacson - 2003 - 607 Seiten
...millions, has killed 150 Yankees this campaign, which is £20,000 a head . . . During the same time, 60,000 children have been born in America. From these data...calculate the time and expense necessary to kill us all."17 Franklin and his two fellow committee members met with General Washington in Cambridge for... | |
 | Edmund Sears Morgan - 2003 - 356 Seiten
...£20,000 a head; and at Bunker's Hill she gained a mile of ground. . . . During the same time 60,000 children have been born in America. From these data...mathematical head will easily calculate the time and expence necessary to kill us all, and conquer our whole territory." On the same day, as this thought... | |
 | Mark Skousen, Benjamin Franklin - 2005 - 514 Seiten
...Britain, at the expense of three millions, killed 150 Yankees in this campaign, which is £20,000 a head; and at Bunker's Hill she gained a mile of ground,...taking post on Ploughed Hill. During the same time 60,000 children were born in America. From these data his mathematical head could easily calculate... | |
 | Martha Joanna Lamb, Mrs. Burton Harrison - 2005 - 585 Seiten
...one hundred and fifty Yankees this campaign, which is twenty thousand pounds a head, and at Bunker Hill she gained a mile of ground, half of which she lost again by taking post on Ploughed Hill. During the same time sixty thousand children have been born in America.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 2006 - 317 Seiten
...Britain, at the expence of three millions, has killed 150 Yankies this campaign, which is £20,000 a head; and at Bunker's Hill she gained a mile of ground,...taking post on Ploughed Hill. During the same time 60,000 children have been born in America. From these data his mathematical head will easily calculate... | |
 | Mark Steyn - 2006 - 258 Seiten
...millions, has killed 150 Yankees this campaign, which is £20000 a head — During the same time, 60000 children have been born in America. From these data...mathematical head will easily calculate the time and the expense necessary to kill us all. Obviously, Franklin was oversimplifying. Not every American colonist... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 2007 - 513 Seiten
...Britain, at the expense of three millions, killed 150 Yankees in this campaign, which is £20,000 a head; and at Bunker's Hill she gained a mile of ground,...taking post on Ploughed Hill. During the same time 60,000 children were born in America. From these data his mathematical head could easily calculate... | |
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Britain, at the expense of three millions, has killed one hundred and fifty Yankees this campaign, which is twenty thousand pounds a head; and at Bunker's Hill she gained a mile of ground, half of which she lost again by our taking post on Ploughed Hill.... 
