 | 1890 - 868 páginas
...and certainly will not outlive the campaign unless it finds something more substantial to rest upon. To me it will appear miraculous if our affairs can...train. If either the temper or the resources of the couutry will not admit of an alteration, we may expect soon to be reduced to the humiliating condition... | |
 | Robert Roswell Palmer - 1959 - 552 páginas
...atrocious cause, Against thy king, thy country and the laws. — Loyalist poem, by JONATHAN ODELL, 1779 To me it will appear miraculous, if our affairs can...cause of America, in America, upheld by foreign arms. . . . It is true that our enemies as well as ourselves are struggling with embarrassments of a singular... | |
 | Dave Richard Palmer - 2006 - 434 páginas
...tocsin too many times. To General Washington's utmost chagrin, very few responded to his calls in 1780. "We may expect soon to be reduced to the humiliating...cause of America, in America, upheld by foreign arms," he concluded sadly. All of that and much more left the American Revolution gasping like a beached whale.... | |
 | 1890 - 970 páginas
...and certainly will not outlive the campaign unless it finds something more substantial to rest upon. To me it will appear miraculous if our affairs can...cause of America in America upheld by foreign arms." To appreciate the full force of this, we must remember that, except in South Carolina, there had been... | |
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To me it will appear miraculous, if our affairs can maintain themselves much longer in their present train. If either the temper or the resources of the country will not admit of an alteration, we may expect soon to be reduced to the humiliating condition... 
