The Life of George Washington: Commander-in-chief of the American Army Through the Revolutionary War, and the First President of the United StatesHenry T. Coates, 1882 - 489 páginas |
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... arms in the country , the soldiers of the first campaign were of necessity . permitted to bring their own muskets into service , although their different length and size occasioned much inconvenience . By the regulation of Congress for ...
... arms in the country , the soldiers of the first campaign were of necessity . permitted to bring their own muskets into service , although their different length and size occasioned much inconvenience . By the regulation of Congress for ...
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... arms , they rose in small bands to oppose their in- vaders . They scoured the country , cut off every soldier who straggled from his corps ; and in many instances repelled the foraging parties of the enemy . The enterprising manoeuvres ...
... arms , they rose in small bands to oppose their in- vaders . They scoured the country , cut off every soldier who straggled from his corps ; and in many instances repelled the foraging parties of the enemy . The enterprising manoeuvres ...
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... arms unfit for use , and all the ammunition was dam- aged . The army was of consequence extremely ex- posed , and their danger became the greater , as many of the soldiers were destitute of bayonets . Fortun- ately the tempest , which ...
... arms unfit for use , and all the ammunition was dam- aged . The army was of consequence extremely ex- posed , and their danger became the greater , as many of the soldiers were destitute of bayonets . Fortun- ately the tempest , which ...
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