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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... necessary to dis- play the principal character . He has made Judge Marshall his leading authority for facts , and has in some measure followed him in the order of events . The histories of the war by Doctors Ramsay and Gordon , and ...
... necessary to dis- play the principal character . He has made Judge Marshall his leading authority for facts , and has in some measure followed him in the order of events . The histories of the war by Doctors Ramsay and Gordon , and ...
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... necessary provisions , baggage , and horses . On the 14th of November he reached Will's Creek , the frontier of inhabited Virginia ; here he hired a pilot , and four other attendants , to accompany him over the Alleghany mountains ; the ...
... necessary provisions , baggage , and horses . On the 14th of November he reached Will's Creek , the frontier of inhabited Virginia ; here he hired a pilot , and four other attendants , to accompany him over the Alleghany mountains ; the ...
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... necessary provisions in their packs , and with their guns in their hands , prosecuted their journey on foot the nearest way through the woods . The next day , December 26 , as he passed a place , called the Murdering town , he fell in ...
... necessary provisions in their packs , and with their guns in their hands , prosecuted their journey on foot the nearest way through the woods . The next day , December 26 , as he passed a place , called the Murdering town , he fell in ...
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... necessary provisions were placed on pack horses . Of this body General Braddock himself took the command , leaving Colonel Dun- bar to bring up the other division by slow marches . Gen. Braddock with his disencumbered troops did not ...
... necessary provisions were placed on pack horses . Of this body General Braddock himself took the command , leaving Colonel Dun- bar to bring up the other division by slow marches . Gen. Braddock with his disencumbered troops did not ...
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... The military code of the colony was insuf- ficient , which rendered it impossible to bring the militia into the field with the dispatch necessary C to repel an Indian invasion ; and her martial laws 1755. ] LIFE OF WASHINGTON . 17.
... The military code of the colony was insuf- ficient , which rendered it impossible to bring the militia into the field with the dispatch necessary C to repel an Indian invasion ; and her martial laws 1755. ] LIFE OF WASHINGTON . 17.
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