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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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