The History of the United States of North America, from the Plantation of the British Colonies Till Their Revolt and Declaration of Independence, Том 4Smith, Elder and Company, 1836 - 462 стор. |
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... Army . Operations of Washington . Retreat of the British Army from Boston . Hostilities in South Carolina . The Americans declare their commerce free . Conduct of the American Quakers . Proceedings in Congress - Declaration of American ...
... Army . Operations of Washington . Retreat of the British Army from Boston . Hostilities in South Carolina . The Americans declare their commerce free . Conduct of the American Quakers . Proceedings in Congress - Declaration of American ...
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... Army BB South Carolina . The Americas de their of Co of the American Quakers . Proceding in Comp American Independence Coachin NOTES ..... hea HE ORY MERICA . K X. UED ) . ER V. 1 erica . Loss of Fort William - Henry.- British Commander ...
... Army BB South Carolina . The Americas de their of Co of the American Quakers . Proceding in Comp American Independence Coachin NOTES ..... hea HE ORY MERICA . K X. UED ) . ER V. 1 erica . Loss of Fort William - Henry.- British Commander ...
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... army , Lord Loudoun told him that he could afford to wait , as his employment had doubtless given him ample opportunity of filling his own pockets . Franklin endeavoured to repel this insinuation ; but the integrity to which he ...
... army , Lord Loudoun told him that he could afford to wait , as his employment had doubtless given him ample opportunity of filling his own pockets . Franklin endeavoured to repel this insinuation ; but the integrity to which he ...
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... army of nine thousand men , and laid siege to Fort William - Henry , which was garrisoned by nearly three thousand troops , partly English and partly American , and commanded by a brave English officer , Colonel Monroe . The security of ...
... army of nine thousand men , and laid siege to Fort William - Henry , which was garrisoned by nearly three thousand troops , partly English and partly American , and commanded by a brave English officer , Colonel Monroe . The security of ...
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... army that had ever been assembled in America , consisting of 50,000 men , of whom 22,000 were regular troops . He was a person of slender abilities , and utterly devoid of energy and resolu- tion and Pitt too late regretted the error he ...
... army that had ever been assembled in America , consisting of 50,000 men , of whom 22,000 were regular troops . He was a person of slender abilities , and utterly devoid of energy and resolu- tion and Pitt too late regretted the error he ...
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Сторінка 368 - Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery ! Our chains are forged ; their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable — and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come! It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, peace; but there is no peace.
Сторінка 201 - Treason, treason!" echoed from every part of the house. Henry faltered not for an instant, but, taking a loftier attitude, and fixing on the speaker an eye of fire, he added " may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it...
Сторінка 230 - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
Сторінка 387 - His mind was great and powerful, without being of the very first order ; his penetration strong, though not so acute as that of a Newton, Bacon, or Locke ; and as far as he saw, no judgment was ever sounder. It was slow in operation, being little aided by invention or imagination, but sure in conclusion.
Сторінка 190 - They planted by your care! No! your oppressions planted them in America. — They fled from your tyranny to a then uncultivated and...
Сторінка 190 - LIBERTY to recoil within them: men promoted to the highest seats of justice, some who, to my knowledge, were glad, by going to a foreign country, to escape being brought to the bar of a Court of Justice in their own.
Сторінка 368 - Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us.
Сторінка 454 - It will be very agreeable to me; indeed, nothing has ever hurt me so much, and affected me with such keen sensations, as to find myself deserted in my old age by my only son ; and not only deserted, but to find him taking up arms against me in a cause wherein my good fame, fortune and life, were all at stake.
Сторінка 191 - God knows I do not at this time speak from motives of party heat ; what I deliver are the genuine sentiments of my heart. However superior to me in general. knowledge and experience the respectable body of this house may be...
Сторінка 362 - America, by beginning to allay ferments and soften animosities there, and above all for preventing in the mean time any sudden and fatal catastrophe at Boston, now suffering under the daily irritation of an army before their eyes...