The Life of George Washington: Commander-in-chief of the American Army, Through the Revolutionary War, and the First President of the United States, Volúmenes1-2Crosby, Nichols, Lee, 1860 |
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... orders of Colonel WASHINGTON . For the security of their stores he erected a small stockade , and then marched towards Fort du Quesne , to dislodge the French . At the foot of Laurel Hill , thirteen miles on the way , he was met by a ...
... orders of Colonel WASHINGTON . For the security of their stores he erected a small stockade , and then marched towards Fort du Quesne , to dislodge the French . At the foot of Laurel Hill , thirteen miles on the way , he was met by a ...
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... order ed the troops to march over the Alleghany mountains ; either to drive the French from du Quesne , or to erect a fort in a favourable position . The forces were in number much infericur to those of the enemy , and were totally ...
... order ed the troops to march over the Alleghany mountains ; either to drive the French from du Quesne , or to erect a fort in a favourable position . The forces were in number much infericur to those of the enemy , and were totally ...
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... orders of the commander to his respective officers . Of all those , who on this fatal day did duty on horse- back , he alone escaped without a wound ; although he had two horses shot under him , and four balls through his coat . Doctor ...
... orders of the commander to his respective officers . Of all those , who on this fatal day did duty on horse- back , he alone escaped without a wound ; although he had two horses shot under him , and four balls through his coat . Doctor ...
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... orders prevailed among them . The officers in general behaved with incomparable bravery , for which they greatly suffered ; there being upwards of sixty killed and wounded ; a large propor- tion of what we had . " The Virginia companies ...
... orders prevailed among them . The officers in general behaved with incomparable bravery , for which they greatly suffered ; there being upwards of sixty killed and wounded ; a large propor- tion of what we had . " The Virginia companies ...
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... orders were often in- adequate to their object , or impracticable in their na- ture . The military code of the colony was insuffi cient , which rendered it impossible to bring the mili tia into the field with the despatch necessary to ...
... orders were often in- adequate to their object , or impracticable in their na- ture . The military code of the colony was insuffi cient , which rendered it impossible to bring the mili tia into the field with the despatch necessary to ...
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