HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES1866 |
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... brought together on a historical subject of a like nature . My object in seeking so full a collection of military papers was to insure a correct comprehension of military events by comparing the narratives , opinions , and judg- ments ...
... brought together on a historical subject of a like nature . My object in seeking so full a collection of military papers was to insure a correct comprehension of military events by comparing the narratives , opinions , and judg- ments ...
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... brought into congress , was in the handwriting of Dickinson , and had been begun before the end of June . The Farmer of Pennsylvania , like the statue of the fabled child of the morning twilight , wel- comed the coming sun with music ...
... brought into congress , was in the handwriting of Dickinson , and had been begun before the end of June . The Farmer of Pennsylvania , like the statue of the fabled child of the morning twilight , wel- comed the coming sun with music ...
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... brought to their country's defence the best will and all that they could offer , and their spirit evinced the existence of a nation . In like manner , in New York , where two thirds of the men of wealth kept aloof from the struggle , or ...
... brought to their country's defence the best will and all that they could offer , and their spirit evinced the existence of a nation . In like manner , in New York , where two thirds of the men of wealth kept aloof from the struggle , or ...
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... brought off as prisoners . The only avenue of escape was by wading through Gowanus creek ; and this passage was almost cut off by troops under Cornwallis , who had advanced by the Port road , and , with the second regiment of grenadiers ...
... brought off as prisoners . The only avenue of escape was by wading through Gowanus creek ; and this passage was almost cut off by troops under Cornwallis , who had advanced by the Port road , and , with the second regiment of grenadiers ...
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... brought up , slept in front of the lines at Brooklyn , wrapped in their blankets and warmed by fires . Those of the patriot army who in their retreat from the woody heights had left their blankets behind them , and the battalions of ...
... brought up , slept in front of the lines at Brooklyn , wrapped in their blankets and warmed by fires . Those of the patriot army who in their retreat from the woody heights had left their blankets behind them , and the battalions of ...
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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.