The Life of George Washington: Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of His Country, and First President of the United States, Band 1J. Crissy, 1832 |
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... defence of the province , determined to raise a regiment , to consist of sixteen companies , the command of which was offered to Colonel Washington ; who was also designated , in his commission , as the Com- mander - in - chief of all ...
... defence of the province , determined to raise a regiment , to consist of sixteen companies , the command of which was offered to Colonel Washington ; who was also designated , in his commission , as the Com- mander - in - chief of all ...
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... defence of the country having become obvious , the assembly determined to augment the regi- ment to fifteen hundred men . In a letter addressed to the house of burgesses , Colonel Washington urged the necessity of increasing it still ...
... defence of the country having become obvious , the assembly determined to augment the regi- ment to fifteen hundred men . In a letter addressed to the house of burgesses , Colonel Washington urged the necessity of increasing it still ...
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... defence a larger portion of his force than could be spared with a proper regard to the safety of other and more advantageous positions . The governor , how- ever , thought the abandonment of it improper , since it was a " king's fort ...
... defence a larger portion of his force than could be spared with a proper regard to the safety of other and more advantageous positions . The governor , how- ever , thought the abandonment of it improper , since it was a " king's fort ...
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... defence , until the moment when they ought to be used ; and then , rely almost entirely , on a force neither adequate to the danger , nor of equal continuance . It is an interesting fact to those who know the present situation of ...
... defence , until the moment when they ought to be used ; and then , rely almost entirely , on a force neither adequate to the danger , nor of equal continuance . It is an interesting fact to those who know the present situation of ...
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... defence . If you can think my situation capable of exciting the smallest degree of envy , or of affording the least satisfaction , the truth is yet hid from you , and you entertain notions very different from the reality of the case ...
... defence . If you can think my situation capable of exciting the smallest degree of envy , or of affording the least satisfaction , the truth is yet hid from you , and you entertain notions very different from the reality of the case ...
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action advantage American army appeared arms Arnold arrival artillery attack attempt body brigade British army Burgoyne camp campaign Captain cavalry circumstances Colonel Washington colonies command Commander-in-chief commenced conduct congress considerable continental troops corps Count D'Estaing creek crossed defence Delaware detachment determined directed division encamped enemy engaged enterprise evacuation execution exertions expedition favour fire flank fleet force fort Mifflin French front garrison Governor ground honour hope hundred immediately Indians infantry intelligence Island Jersey killed Lafayette land letter Lieutenant Colonel Lord Cornwallis loss Marquis de Lafayette measures ment miles militia morning night North Carolina North River numbers object officers opinion orders party passed Peekskill Pennsylvania Philadelphia possession prisoners provisions rear received regiment reinforcements rendered resolution retreat river road Sir Henry Clinton situation soldiers soon Sullivan taken Tarlton thousand tion town United Virginia whole wounded York York Island
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Seite 8 - For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies...
Seite 9 - 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 417 - No State shall lay any imposts or duties, which may interfere with any stipulations in treaties, entered into by the United States in Congress assembled, with any king, prince or state, in pursuance of any treaties already proposed by Congress, to the courts of France and Spain.
Seite 7 - He has endeavoured to prevent the Population of these States for that Purpose obstructing the Laws for naturalization of Foreigners refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither and raising the Conditions of new appropriations of Lands...
Seite 6 - When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect for the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
Seite 417 - ... provided that no treaty of commerce shall be made whereby the legislative power of the respective states shall be restrained from imposing such imposts and duties on foreigners as their own people are subjected to, or from prohibiting the exportation or importation of any species of goods or commodities whatsoever...
Seite 10 - Nor have we been wanting in attention to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here.
Seite 71 - DO, in the name and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies, are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states ; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connexion between them and the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved...
Seite 230 - Neither of the two parties shall conclude either truce or peace with Great Britain without the formal consent of the other first obtained; and they mutually engage not to lay down their arms until the independence of the United States shall have been formally or tacitly assured by the treaty or treaties that shall terminate the war.
Seite 14 - I call upon the honour of your Lordships to reverence the dignity of your ancestors, and to maintain your own. I call upon the spirit and humanity of my country to vindicate the national character.