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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... Reasons of their adoption - The Relations of the United States with Foreign Powers - Congress establishes the Departments of the Government - The President fills them - He visits New England His Reception - Addresses to him - His ...
... Reasons of their adoption - The Relations of the United States with Foreign Powers - Congress establishes the Departments of the Government - The President fills them - He visits New England His Reception - Addresses to him - His ...
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... reason did not , that the French and Indians are watching the op- portunity when we shall be lulled into fatal secu- rity , and unprepared to resist an attack , to invade the country , and by ravaging one part , terrify an- other ; that ...
... reason did not , that the French and Indians are watching the op- portunity when we shall be lulled into fatal secu- rity , and unprepared to resist an attack , to invade the country , and by ravaging one part , terrify an- other ; that ...
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... reasons , seven hundred In- dians had , in April , assembled at Winchester , whose patience would be exhausted , unless early employed ; and in that event , he observes , " No words can tell how much they will be missed . " He was at ...
... reasons , seven hundred In- dians had , in April , assembled at Winchester , whose patience would be exhausted , unless early employed ; and in that event , he observes , " No words can tell how much they will be missed . " He was at ...
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... reasons for the preference of Braddock's road . When individuals of Pennsylvania and Vir- ginia , he said , were about to establish a trade with the natives on the Ohio , they , under Indian guides , explored the country , and adopted ...
... reasons for the preference of Braddock's road . When individuals of Pennsylvania and Vir- ginia , he said , were about to establish a trade with the natives on the Ohio , they , under Indian guides , explored the country , and adopted ...
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... reasons in sup- port of this opinion were , the immediate effect which a retrograde movement would have to ani- mate the British , and to depress the American troops ; the unfavourable impression that would be made upon the public mind ...
... reasons in sup- port of this opinion were , the immediate effect which a retrograde movement would have to ani- mate the British , and to depress the American troops ; the unfavourable impression that would be made upon the public mind ...
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