HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES

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eral orders 80 Fort Washington on the Hudson 81 Defences of
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Heroic conduct of Stirling and his party 93 Stirling sur
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Measures for a retreat 101 A council of war 102 Skilful
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retreat successful 105 Erroneous account of the retreat 105
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The city of New York must be abandoned 110 Sullivans recep
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York must be evacuated 114 His plea to congress 114 He explains
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Washingtons conduct on the day 122 Character of Gordon as an his
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Strength of the American position 128 Declaration of the Howes
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American privateers 134 Army regulations adopted 135 Condition
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The declaration of independence unites England 141 Speech of Cav
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Fox applauded by Gibbon and Burke 144 Unsat
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British preparations for a fleet 153 Arnold near Valcour island
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Carletons treatment of his prisoners 156 Carleton lands at Crown
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Lees character as a commander 168 His insincerity 169
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Confidence of John Adams 173 British ships ascend the Hudson
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Greenes elation 180 He finds fault with Washington 180 Howe
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Putnam crosses into the Jerseys 186 Instructions to Lee 186 Wash
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Lees disobedience 194 American army melting away 195 Greene
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Slowness of Howe 202 Danger to Philadelphia 202
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enters New Jersey 207Sneers at Washington 207 His falsehood
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Opinions of Samuel Adams 214 Orders of Putnam 214 The Quak
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Secures all the boats 219 Proposes reform in the army 219
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Washingtons watchword 224 Washingtons plan of attack 224
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ton entered on both sides 233 Conduct of Rall 233 Ralls mistakes
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March from Princeton to Trenton 244 Washington
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K The morning at Trenton 250Washington turns towards
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Washington
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Sovereignty of the people 258 Confidence of the Amer
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power 266 Mode of electing the governor 267 Property qualification
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of Catholics 275 Of the Jews 275 Of the church 276 Public
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Their reply 332 Demand for reënforcements 332 Reply
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of congress 338Interference in Philadelphia 338 Clinton on
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CHAPTER XX
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Retreat of the British 347 They reëmbark 348 Con
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Washington 353He defends himself 353Howe returns to Bruns
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Vermont declares independence 360 Its independence opposed by con
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CHAPTER XXII
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The British at Fort Ann 370 A thanksgiving 370 Carleton
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to the council of New York 375 Schuyler despondent 375 Expects
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Honors to Herkimer 381 Character of the Indian allies 381
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marches through Philadelphia 393 Encamps beyond Wilmington
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CHAPTER XXIV
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Small losses of the Americans 411 Loss of the British 411Bur
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Desperate condition of Burgoyne 418 Death of Fraser
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Loss of the American frigate 423 Billingsport deserted
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talions with Cornwallis 428 Washington retreats 428 Why victory
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CHAPTER XXVI
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Congress has no power to levy taxes 441 Postoffice 441 Import
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northwest of the Ohio 443 Jealousy of military power 443 Effect
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tion a contradiction 450 Elements of union 450 Nationality 451
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Conways discontent 455 Letter of Reed 455 Conduct of Wilkin
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Incompetency of Gates 463 Washington suffers exquisite pain
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His enemies shrink back 464 Gates 464 Mifflin 464 Con
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gress for separatism 470 Washington for union 470 Washington for union 470 Congress jealous
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advice of George 478 His penitence in his old age 478Burgoynes
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Franklins reply 485 France avows her treaties with
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spect 491 His eulogy by John Adams 491 By DAlembert 492
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esteemed by the best men in England 493 Position of the king
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Free inquiry 499 System of Luther 500 Of Descartes 500 Dif
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Sivu 464 - SIR: — I find myself just able to hold the pen during a few minutes, and take this opportunity of expressing my sincere grief for having done, written, or said anything disagreeable to your Excellency. My career will soon be over, therefore justice and truth prompt me to declare my last sentiments. You are in my eyes the great and good man. May you long enjoy the love, veneration, and esteem of these States, whose liberties you have asserted by your virtues.
Sivu 477 - If I were an American as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never, never, never!
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. However, although they seem to have little feeling for the naked and distressed soldiers, I feel superabundantly for them, and, from my soul, I pity those miseries, which it is neither in my power to relieve or prevent.
Sivu 352 - that the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation.
Sivu 477 - You may swell every expense, and every effort, still more extravagantly ; pile and accumulate every assistance you can buy or borrow ; traffic and barter with every little pitiful German prince that sells and sends his subjects to the shambles...
Sivu 145 - Cavendish, on the sixth, moved that the house should resolve itself into a committee to consider of that revisal.
Sivu 221 - It is needless to add that short enlistments and a mistaken dependence upon militia have been the origin of all our misfortunes, and the great accumulation of our debt. We find, sir, that the enemy are daily gathering strength from the disaffected. This strength, like a snow-ball by rolling will increase, unless some means can be devised to check effectually the progress of the enemy's arms. Militia may possibly do it for a little...
Sivu 492 - He remarked to those in Paris who learned of him the secret of statesmanship: "He who shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world...
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.

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