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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... tion of Ticonderoga and Crown Point . Battle of Niagara — and capture of Fort Niagara . Siege of Quebec - Battle of the Heights of Abraham and Surrender of Quebec . - Page 3 CHAPTER VI . Progress of Hostilities in America - Entire ...
... tion of Ticonderoga and Crown Point . Battle of Niagara — and capture of Fort Niagara . Siege of Quebec - Battle of the Heights of Abraham and Surrender of Quebec . - Page 3 CHAPTER VI . Progress of Hostilities in America - Entire ...
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... tion that he had subdued the spirit of the colonists , or even facilitated the exercise of his own authority among them , he was speedily undeceived . Early in the following year , he summoned a convention of the governors of New ...
... tion that he had subdued the spirit of the colonists , or even facilitated the exercise of his own authority among them , he was speedily undeceived . Early in the following year , he summoned a convention of the governors of New ...
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... tion and Pitt too late regretted the error he had committed in entrusting a command of such importance to one so little known to him , and who proved so unfit to sustain it . 2 vania . The increased interest in the affairs of America ...
... tion and Pitt too late regretted the error he had committed in entrusting a command of such importance to one so little known to him , and who proved so unfit to sustain it . 2 vania . The increased interest in the affairs of America ...
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... tion of Franklin ; on which occasion he has been betrayed into a very strange mis- take by erroneous information and too partial regard for the quaker patriarch . He states that the object of the publication was to obtain a change of ...
... tion of Franklin ; on which occasion he has been betrayed into a very strange mis- take by erroneous information and too partial regard for the quaker patriarch . He states that the object of the publication was to obtain a change of ...
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... by the strength of the place and the reputa- tion of its governor and garrison , who fully supported the high idea that had been entertained of them , by the skilful X. 1758 . BOOK and obstinate valour which they exerted NORTH AMERICA . 27.
... by the strength of the place and the reputa- tion of its governor and garrison , who fully supported the high idea that had been entertained of them , by the skilful X. 1758 . BOOK and obstinate valour which they exerted NORTH AMERICA . 27.
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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...