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Términos y frases comunes
acts of Parliament advance affairs alarm American appointed arms army arrived artillery Assembly attack Boston Braam Braddock British brother camp campaign Captain Colonel colonies command commission conduct Congress council Creek Crown Point Cumberland defence detachment Duquesne encamped enemy England English expedition fire force Fort Cumberland Fort Duquesne forts French frontier Gage garrison George Croghan Gist Governor Dinwiddie grenadiers guard half-king Hill honor horses House of Burgesses Hugh Mercer hundred Indians ington king Lake Lake George land letter Logstown Lord Fairfax Lord Loudoun Loudoun Massachusetts ment miles military militia Mount Vernon mountains night officers Ohio orders Parliament party patriot Pennsylvania prisoners province received redoubt regiment retreat returned river road sachem savages scouts sent ships Sir John St Sir William Johnson soldiers spirit thousand tion town traders tribes troops Virginia waggons warriors Washington wilderness William Williamsburg Winchester wounded writes York
Pasajes populares
Página 360 - wisdom, you cannot but respect their cause, and wish to make it your own. For myself, I must declare and avow that, in the master states of the world, I know not the people, or senate, who, in such a complication
Página 274 - said he, when he had finished, " I would rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec." The descent was made in flat-bottomed boats, past midnight, on the 13th of September. They dropped down silently with the swift current. " Qui va la ? " (who goes there ?) cried a sentinel from the shore.
Página 111 - heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound." This rodomontade, as Horace Walpole terms it, reached the . ears of George II. " He would not say so," observed the king, dryly, " if he had been used to hear many."*
Página 214 - of political events, the chain of causes and effects; I am surprised at the suddenness, as well as the greatness of this Revolution; Great Britain has been filled with folly, America with wisdom." His only regret was, that the declaration of independence had not been made sooner. " Had it been made seven months ago,
Página 360 - difficult circumstances, can stand in preference to the delegates of America assembled in General Congress at Philadelphia." From the secrecy that enveloped its discussions, we are ignorant of the part taken by Washington in the debates; the similarity of the resolutions, however, in spirit and substance to those of the Fairfax County meeting, in which he presided,
Página 215 - the conflict of his feelings. " I am too little acquainted with pathetic language to attempt a description of these people's distresses. But what can I do ? I see their situation; I know their danger, and participate their sufferings, without having it in my power to give them further relief than
Página 277 - the French king's lieutenant, who commanded the garrison, he consigned the defence of the city. " To your keeping," said he, " I commend the honor of France. I'll neither give orders, nor interfere any further. I have business to attend to of greater moment than your ruined garrison, and this wretched country. My time is short,—I
Página 413 - Christmas day at night, one hour before day, is the time fixed upon for our attempt upon Trenton. For Heaven's sake keep this to yourself, as the discovery of it may prove fatal to us; our numbers, I am sorry to say, being less than I
Página 403 - fits him. There is a natural firmness in some minds, which cannot be unlocked by trifles; but which, when unlocked, discovers a cabinet of fortitude; and I reckon it among those kinds of public blessings which we do not immediately see, that God bath
Página 274 - the pomp of power. And nil that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead