The Life of George Washington: Commander-in-chief of the American Army Through the Revolutionary War, and the First President of the United StatesPorter & Coates, 1808 - 560 páginas |
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... ington in one volume , reasonable in its price , he should enable those of his fellow citizens , who are not in posses- sion of Marshall , to leave to their posterity the memorial of a man who was pre - eminently distinguished as a sol ...
... ington in one volume , reasonable in its price , he should enable those of his fellow citizens , who are not in posses- sion of Marshall , to leave to their posterity the memorial of a man who was pre - eminently distinguished as a sol ...
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... ington to imply , that Mr. Iumonville , in the first action , was killed ; but which literally would bear the translation , was assassinated . In answer to a publication of M. de Villier , Colonel Washing- ton , soon after the event ...
... ington to imply , that Mr. Iumonville , in the first action , was killed ; but which literally would bear the translation , was assassinated . In answer to a publication of M. de Villier , Colonel Washing- ton , soon after the event ...
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... ington , trying , indeed , to a commander of his youth and degree of experience , but proving an excellent school in which to form the general of the revolutionary war . With an incompetent force he was to defend a frontier of three ...
... ington , trying , indeed , to a commander of his youth and degree of experience , but proving an excellent school in which to form the general of the revolutionary war . With an incompetent force he was to defend a frontier of three ...
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... ington entered on the duties of his commission . Having put the recruiting service in operation , he visited the line of posts on the frontiers , and esta- blished the best regulations their state admitted , to keep the petty garrisons ...
... ington entered on the duties of his commission . Having put the recruiting service in operation , he visited the line of posts on the frontiers , and esta- blished the best regulations their state admitted , to keep the petty garrisons ...
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... ington objected to the measure , because the de- tachment would be exposed to the whole force of the enemy on the Ohio , and must be defeated . The plan was in consequence given up ; and by his advice frequent scouts , consisting ...
... ington objected to the measure , because the de- tachment would be exposed to the whole force of the enemy on the Ohio , and must be defeated . The plan was in consequence given up ; and by his advice frequent scouts , consisting ...
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