History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent, Nide 91866 |
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... officers . It was also my good fortune to obtain for a correspondent a colonel of the Prussian staff , an officer of high military attainments and superior knowledge , who at the same time has the merit of eminent literary culture and ...
... officers . It was also my good fortune to obtain for a correspondent a colonel of the Prussian staff , an officer of high military attainments and superior knowledge , who at the same time has the merit of eminent literary culture and ...
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... officers of our army have given me the benefit of their views on such military questions as I proposed to them . But while I have spared no pains to gain assistance , I am alone responsible for what I have written . With regard to the ...
... officers of our army have given me the benefit of their views on such military questions as I proposed to them . But while I have spared no pains to gain assistance , I am alone responsible for what I have written . With regard to the ...
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... officers in the army , 58 Gates claims coördinate ington , 58 - Public spirit of Washington , 59 - Signing the declaration , 59 - Independence the work of the people , 60 . - - - X CHAPTER III . - - - Congress tired Conflict amongst ...
... officers in the army , 58 Gates claims coördinate ington , 58 - Public spirit of Washington , 59 - Signing the declaration , 59 - Independence the work of the people , 60 . - - - X CHAPTER III . - - - Congress tired Conflict amongst ...
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... officers , 389 - Kalb and Lafayette , 389 - Sullivan's miscon- duct , 390— Consequent loss to Washington's army , 390 — Howe embarks for Philadelphia , 391 - He enters the Chesapeake , 391- Opinions of John Adams , 391 - Strength of ...
... officers , 389 - Kalb and Lafayette , 389 - Sullivan's miscon- duct , 390— Consequent loss to Washington's army , 390 — Howe embarks for Philadelphia , 391 - He enters the Chesapeake , 391- Opinions of John Adams , 391 - Strength of ...
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... officer for officer of equal rank , soldier for soldier , sailor for sailor , and citizen for citizen . In this arrangement Howe readily concurred ; the choice of prisoners was to be made by the respective commanders for their own officers ...
... officer for officer of equal rank , soldier for soldier , sailor for sailor , and citizen for citizen . In this arrangement Howe readily concurred ; the choice of prisoners was to be made by the respective commanders for their own officers ...
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Sivu 186 - If we cannot prevent vessels from passing up, and the enemy are possessed of the surrounding country, what valuable purpose can it answer to attempt to hold a post from which the expected benefit cannot be had ? I am therefore inclined to think that it will not be prudent to hazard the men and stores at Mount Washington ; but, as you are on the spot, I leave it to you to give such orders as to evacTOL. T. — 7 uating Mount Washington as you may judge best, and so far revoking the order given to...
Sivu 460 - I can assure those gentlemen, that it is a much easier and less distressing thing to draw remonstrances in a comfortable room by a good fireside, than to occupy a cold bleak hill, and sleep under frost and snow, without clothes or blankets.
Sivu 145 - Cavendish, on the sixth, moved that the house should resolve itself into a committee to consider of that revisal.
Sivu 479 - The battle had its effect also in France. The Count De Vergennes observed to the American commissioners in Paris on their first interview that nothing struck him so much as General Washington's attacking and giving battle to General Howe's army; that to bring an army raised within a year to this pass promised everything. The effect on the army itself may be judged from letters written at the time by officers to their friends. "Though we gave away a complete victory...
Sivu 461 - Beside spreading disaffection, jealousy and fear among the people, they never fail, even in the most veteran troops, under the most rigid and exact discipline, to raise in the soldiery a disposition to licentiousness, to plunder and robbery, difficult to suppress afterward, and which has proved not only ruinous to the inhabitants, but in many instances to armies themselves.
Sivu 117 - Parliament, namely: that of granting pardons, with such exceptions as the commissioners shall think proper to make, and of declaring America, or any part of it, to be in the king's peace upon .submission...
Sivu 455 - Sir, a letter which I received last night, contained the following paragraph. " In a letter from General Conway to General Gates, he says, ' heaven has been determined to save your country ; or a weak General and bad Counsellors would have ruined it ; I am, sir, &.c.
Sivu 455 - To sum up the whole, I have been a slave to the service; I have undergone more than most men are aware of, to harmonize so many discordant parts; but it will be impossible for me to be of any further service, if such insuperable difficulties are thrown in my way.
Sivu 137 - It becomes evident to me then, that, as this contest is not likely to be the work of a day, as the war must be carried on systematically, and to do it you must have good officers, there are no other possible means to obtain them but by establishing your army upon a permanent footing, and giving your officers good pay.
Sivu 44 - I know your great motive in coming hither was the hope of being instrumental in a reconciliation ; and I believe, when you find that impossible on any terms given you to propose, you will relinquish so odious a command, and return to a more honorable private station.