A History of the American Revolution; Comprehending All the Principal Events Both in the Field and in the Cabinet, Volume 1F. Betts, 1822 |
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... enemy were all the while pouring in fresh havock and slaughter among his men , his officers were falling all around him , for the Indi- ans and French seemed to aim their pieces particu- larly at those on horseback , his aids had all ...
... enemy were all the while pouring in fresh havock and slaughter among his men , his officers were falling all around him , for the Indi- ans and French seemed to aim their pieces particu- larly at those on horseback , his aids had all ...
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... enemy , provided that would contribute to the peo- ple's ease . " Thus the third year of the war was closed , without a solitary advantage to the cause of Great Bri- tain , if we except the gallant and spirited enterprise of Colonel ...
... enemy , provided that would contribute to the peo- ple's ease . " Thus the third year of the war was closed , without a solitary advantage to the cause of Great Bri- tain , if we except the gallant and spirited enterprise of Colonel ...
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... enemy . It is hardly possible to conceive a situation more calculated to depress a susceptible mind , than that of the General at this period . He saw the utter impossibility of any cooperation on the part of General Amherst , and knew ...
... enemy . It is hardly possible to conceive a situation more calculated to depress a susceptible mind , than that of the General at this period . He saw the utter impossibility of any cooperation on the part of General Amherst , and knew ...
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... enemy . The three Gene- rals who were on the field had neither of them a supe- riour or separate command ; their services were volunta- ry , and they were given with promptness and bravery wherever they seemed to be most called for ...
... enemy . The three Gene- rals who were on the field had neither of them a supe- riour or separate command ; their services were volunta- ry , and they were given with promptness and bravery wherever they seemed to be most called for ...
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... enemy , grew daily more and more daring . They had , in defiance of a ship of war which lay within one mile , succeeded in des- troying the Light House at the entrance of the har- bour ; and when the British at a subsequent time un ...
... enemy , grew daily more and more daring . They had , in defiance of a ship of war which lay within one mile , succeeded in des- troying the Light House at the entrance of the har- bour ; and when the British at a subsequent time un ...
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Página 262 - MR. PRESIDENT: Though I am truly sensible of the high honor done me, in this appointment, yet I feel great distress, from a consciousness that my abilities and military experience may not be equal to the extensive and important trust.
Página 218 - Parliament, they are entitled to a free and exclusive power of legislation in their several Provincial legislatures, where their right of representation can alone be preserved, in all cases of taxation and internal polity, subject only to the negative of their Sovereign, in such manner as has been heretofore used and accustomed...
Página 262 - But lest some unlucky event should happen unfavorable to my reputation, I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room that I this day declare, with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with.
Página 95 - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
Página 75 - They protected by your arms ! They have nobly taken up arms in your defence ; have exerted a valour amidst their constant and laborious industry, for the defence of a country whose frontier was drenched in blood, while its interior parts yielded all its little savings to your emolument.
Página 356 - He has endeavoured to prevent the Population of these States for that Purpose obstructing the Laws for naturalization of Foreigners refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither and raising the Conditions of new appropriations of Lands...
Página 285 - ... we mean not to dissolve that union which has so long and so happily subsisted between us, and which we sincerely wish to see restored. Necessity has not yet driven us into that desperate measure, or induced us to excite any other nation to war against them. We have not raised armies with ambitious designs of separating from Great Britain, and establishing independent states.
Página 219 - That the respective colonies are entitled to the common law of England, and more especially to the great and inestimable privilege of being tried by their peers of the vicinage, according to the course of that law.
Página 359 - DO, in the name and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies, are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states ; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connexion between them and the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved...
Página 284 - Honour, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness which inevitably awaits them, if we basely entail hereditary bondage upon them.