 | Walter Isaacson - 2004 - 628 Seiten
...£20,000 a head . . . During the same time, 60,000 children have been born in America. From these data his mathematical head will easily 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... | |
 | Martha Joanna Lamb, Mrs. Burton Harrison - 2005 - 585 Seiten
...intensified the bitterness. The rumor that general orders had been issued by the British Ministry to barn all the seaport towns of America (though. without...lengths in opposition to England. The New York Congress appealed to the Continental Congress for a military force to disarm every man on Long Island who voted... | |
 | Mark Skousen, Benjamin Franklin - 2005 - 514 Seiten
...During the same time 60,000 children were born in America. From these data his mathematical head could easily calculate the time and expense necessary to kill us all, and conquer our whole territory. YOU ARE NOW MY ENEMY, AND I AM . . . YOURS I addressed (but never sent) the following letter to Mr.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 2007 - 513 Seiten
...During the same time 60,000 children were born in America. From these data his mathematical head could easily calculate the time and expense necessary to kill us all, and conquer our whole territory. YOU ARE NOW MY ENEMY, AND I AM . . . YOURS I addressed (but never sent) the following letter to Mr.... | |
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... 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. During the same time sixty thousand children... 
