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... XVI . — Washington Takes Command of the Armies - Sketch of General Lee - Char- acters of the British Commanders , Howe , Clinton , and Burgoyne - Survey of the Camps 171 189 PAGE from Prospect Hill - The Camps Contrasted -Description of.
... XVI . — Washington Takes Command of the Armies - Sketch of General Lee - Char- acters of the British Commanders , Howe , Clinton , and Burgoyne - Survey of the Camps 171 189 PAGE from Prospect Hill - The Camps Contrasted -Description of.
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... command . A convention , therefore , from various towns met at Boston , on the 22d of September , to devise measures for the public safety ; but disclaiming all pretensions to leg- islative powers . While the convention was yet in ...
... command . A convention , therefore , from various towns met at Boston , on the 22d of September , to devise measures for the public safety ; but disclaiming all pretensions to leg- islative powers . While the convention was yet in ...
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... command of Massachu- setts , and the carrying out of these offensive acts . He was the same officer who , as lieu- tenant - colonel , had led the advance guard on the field of Braddock's defeat . Fortune had since gone well with him ...
... command of Massachu- setts , and the carrying out of these offensive acts . He was the same officer who , as lieu- tenant - colonel , had led the advance guard on the field of Braddock's defeat . Fortune had since gone well with him ...
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... command at Boston , he had been perplexed how to manage its inhabitants . Had they been hot - headed , impulsive , and prone to paroxysm , his task would have been compara- tively easy ; but it was the cool , shrewd com- mon sense , by ...
... command at Boston , he had been perplexed how to manage its inhabitants . Had they been hot - headed , impulsive , and prone to paroxysm , his task would have been compara- tively easy ; but it was the cool , shrewd com- mon sense , by ...
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... command of Cossacks and Wallacks , " writes he , " a kind of people I have a good opinion of . I am determined not to serve in the line . One might as well be a church - warden . ” The friendship of King Stanislaus continued . " He ...
... command of Cossacks and Wallacks , " writes he , " a kind of people I have a good opinion of . I am determined not to serve in the line . One might as well be a church - warden . ” The friendship of King Stanislaus continued . " He ...
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Adams affairs Americans appointed arms army Arnold arrived artillery attack batteries Battle of Bunker's Boston Britain British Bunker's Hill Cambridge camp campaign Canada Canadians Captain Carleton cause Charlestown Colonel colonies command commander-in-chief committee conduct Connecticut Continental Congress council crown defense detachment effect encamped enemy England eral Ethan Allen expedition Fairfax favor field-pieces fire force fortified friends frontier Gage garrison give governor Green Mountain Boys Hampshire Grants hand honor House House of Burgesses hundred Indian ington inhabitants John's Lake land letter liberty Lord Lord Dunmore Massachusetts measures ment miles military militia Montgomery Montreal Mount Vernon Mystic River night officers Parliament patriot Philadelphia Point Prescott province Putnam Quebec received redoubt regiment reinforcements reply retreat River Schuyler sent Seth Warner ships soldiers soon spirit stamp act thousand Ticonderoga tion town troops Trumbull veteran Virginia Ward Wash Washington writes York
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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