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... Battery at Lechmere's Point - Prayer of Putnam for Powder .. CHAP . XXVI . - Mount Vernon in Danger Mrs. Washington Invited to the Camp- Lund Washington , the General's Agent - Terms on which he Serves - Instructed to Keep up the ...
... Battery at Lechmere's Point - Prayer of Putnam for Powder .. CHAP . XXVI . - Mount Vernon in Danger Mrs. Washington Invited to the Camp- Lund Washington , the General's Agent - Terms on which he Serves - Instructed to Keep up the ...
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... battery at Boston on Copp's Hill , immediately opposite to Charlestown . Five of their vessels of war were stationed so as to bear upon the penin- sula from different directions , and the guns of one of them swept the isthmus , or ...
... battery at Boston on Copp's Hill , immediately opposite to Charlestown . Five of their vessels of war were stationed so as to bear upon the penin- sula from different directions , and the guns of one of them swept the isthmus , or ...
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... battery followed his example . Their shot did no mischief to the works , but one man , among a number who had incautiously ventured outside , was killed . A subaltern reported his death to Colonel Prescott , and asked what was to be ...
... battery followed his example . Their shot did no mischief to the works , but one man , among a number who had incautiously ventured outside , was killed . A subaltern reported his death to Colonel Prescott , and asked what was to be ...
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... batteries , so as to attack the Americans in rear , and cut off their retreat . General Gage objected that it would place his troops between two armies ; one at Cambridge , superior in numbers , the other on the heights , strongly ...
... batteries , so as to attack the Americans in rear , and cut off their retreat . General Gage objected that it would place his troops between two armies ; one at Cambridge , superior in numbers , the other on the heights , strongly ...
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... battery on Copp's Hill , which opened upon them about ten o'clock . They returned an occasional shot from one corner of the redoubt , without much harm to the enemy , and continued strengthening their position until about II o'clock ...
... battery on Copp's Hill , which opened upon them about ten o'clock . They returned an occasional shot from one corner of the redoubt , without much harm to the enemy , and continued strengthening their position until about II o'clock ...
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Página 346 - Let the hospitality of the house with respect to the poor be kept up. Let no one go hungry away. If any of this kind of people should be in want of corn, supply their necessaries, provided it does not encourage them to idleness ; and I have no objection to your giving
Página 127 - the patriot give affecting solemnity to the implied resolve of the soldier : '' Unhappy it is to reflect that a brother's sword has been sheathed in a brother's breast ; and that the once happy and peaceful plains of America are to be either drenched with blood or inhabited by slaves. Sad alternative ! But can a virtuous man hesitate in his choice
Página 294 - sea-coast of America, and for erecting a court to try and condemn all vessels that should be found infesting the same. This act, granting letters of marque and reprisal, anticipated any measure of the kind on the part of the General Government, and was pronounced by John Adams " one of the most important documents in history,
Página 305 - In a letter to Reed he disburdened his heart more completely. " Such dearth of public spirit, and such want of virtue ; such stockjobbing, and fertility in all the low arts to
Página 311 - levies from various colonies, who, said he, " carry the spirit of freedom into the field, and think for themselves. " Accustomed as he had been, in his former military experience, to the implicit obedience of European troops, the insubordination of these
Página 330 - of December, to relieve the Connecticut regiments, and supply the deficiency that would be caused by their departure, and by the absence of others on furlough. • With this arrangement the Connecticut troops were made acquainted, and, as the time of most of them would not be out before the loth,
Página 220 - and round hats. Their displays of sharpshooting were soon among the marvels of the camp. We are told that while advancing at quick step, they could hit a mark of seven inches diameter, at the distance of two hundred and fifty yards, f
Página 366 - 1776), his army did not amount to ten thousand men, and was composed of but half-filled regiments. Even in raising this inadequate force, it had been necessary to indulge many of the men with furloughs, that they might visit their families and friends. The expedients resorted to in equipping the army, show the
Página 334 - SiR,—We have just been informed of a circumstance which, were it not so well authenticated, I should scarcely think credible. It is that Colonel Allen, who, with his small party, was defeated and made prisoner near Montreal, has been treated without regard to decency, humanity, or the rules of war; that
Página 263 - The evident unwillingness of the latter to come forth was perplexing. " Unless the ministerial troops in Boston are waiting for reinforcements," writes Washington, "I cannot devise what they are staying there for, nor why, as they affect to despise the Americans, they do not come forth and put