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... Command of the Expedition - His Proceedings at Crown Point , and March to Ticonderoga - Elaborate Defence of Ticonderoga by the Americans - The Position invested by Burgoyne - Abandonment of Ticonderoga by the Americans - Disastrous ...
... Command of the Expedition - His Proceedings at Crown Point , and March to Ticonderoga - Elaborate Defence of Ticonderoga by the Americans - The Position invested by Burgoyne - Abandonment of Ticonderoga by the Americans - Disastrous ...
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... Command of the Southern Army - Lord Rawdon - Despotic Government of Cornwallis - March of an American Army from the North to the Relief of South Carolina - Baron de Kalb - Partisan Warfare under Colonel Sumpter - The Main Body of the ...
... Command of the Southern Army - Lord Rawdon - Despotic Government of Cornwallis - March of an American Army from the North to the Relief of South Carolina - Baron de Kalb - Partisan Warfare under Colonel Sumpter - The Main Body of the ...
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... Command of the British Forces in America - Disorganised and Miserable Condition of the American Army - Proposal to Washington that he should assume the Title of King - His Indignant Reply- Pacific Overtures of Sir Guy Carleton ...
... Command of the British Forces in America - Disorganised and Miserable Condition of the American Army - Proposal to Washington that he should assume the Title of King - His Indignant Reply- Pacific Overtures of Sir Guy Carleton ...
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... Command transferred from General Dearborn to General Wilkinson - Plan for attacking Montreal - Failure of the Expedition- Mutual Barbarities and Sacking of Towns - The Naval Duel between the Shannon and the Chesapeake - Defeat of the ...
... Command transferred from General Dearborn to General Wilkinson - Plan for attacking Montreal - Failure of the Expedition- Mutual Barbarities and Sacking of Towns - The Naval Duel between the Shannon and the Chesapeake - Defeat of the ...
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... command , thought it prudent to fortify his camp , at the same time that he took all necessary measures for the investment of the hostile city . But he was spared the tedious operations and un- certain issues of a siege . On the 17th of ...
... command , thought it prudent to fortify his camp , at the same time that he took all necessary measures for the investment of the hostile city . But he was spared the tedious operations and un- certain issues of a siege . On the 17th of ...
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Seite 253 - All charges of war and all other expenses that shall be incurred for the common defence or general welfare, and allowed by the United States in congress assembled, shall be defrayed out of a common treasury...
Seite 252 - He has constrained our fellow-citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country ; to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
Seite 247 - You will think me transported with enthusiasm, but I am not. I am well aware of the toil, and blood and treasure, that it will cost...
Seite 538 - The nation which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest.
Seite 235 - That religion or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence ; and, therefore, all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience ; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love and charity towards each other.
Seite 132 - Pass by the other parts, and look at the manner in which the people of New England have of late carried on the whale fishery.
Seite 132 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government, — they will cling and grapple to you, and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance.
Seite 141 - 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.
Seite 132 - Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government ; they will cling and grapple to you, and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance. But let it be once understood that your government may be one thing and their privileges another— ^-that these two things may exist without any mutual relation — the cement is gone, the cohesion is loosened, and everything hastens to decay and dissolution.
Seite 300 - 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.