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... officer of uncontested ability , possessed of an exact knowledge of the country , and animated by an ardent thirst for ... officers , who endea- vored to represent his actions in an unfavorable light . Burgoyne , impatient to make his ...
... officer of uncontested ability , possessed of an exact knowledge of the country , and animated by an ardent thirst for ... officers , who endea- vored to represent his actions in an unfavorable light . Burgoyne , impatient to make his ...
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... officers . The principal were , major- general Phillips , of the artillery , who had distinguished himself in the wars of Germany ; the brigadier - generals Frazer , Powel , and Hamilton , with the Brunswick major - general Baron ...
... officers . The principal were , major- general Phillips , of the artillery , who had distinguished himself in the wars of Germany ; the brigadier - generals Frazer , Powel , and Hamilton , with the Brunswick major - general Baron ...
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... officers of the garrison , represented to them the critical situation in which they were placed , thus pressed by the enemy , and upon the very point of being hemmed in on every side . He asked them if they did not think it would be ...
... officers of the garrison , represented to them the critical situation in which they were placed , thus pressed by the enemy , and upon the very point of being hemmed in on every side . He asked them if they did not think it would be ...
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... officers , and upwards of two hundred soldiers , dead on the field . About the same number , besides colonel Hale , and seventeen officers of inferior rank , were made prisoners . Above six hundred were supposed to be wounded , many of ...
... officers , and upwards of two hundred soldiers , dead on the field . About the same number , besides colonel Hale , and seventeen officers of inferior rank , were made prisoners . Above six hundred were supposed to be wounded , many of ...
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... officers of the northern army ; its envenomed shafts were especially aimed at St. Clair . Schuyler himself , that able general and devoted patriot , whose long services had only been repaid by long ingratitude , escaped not the serpent ...
... officers of the northern army ; its envenomed shafts were especially aimed at St. Clair . Schuyler himself , that able general and devoted patriot , whose long services had only been repaid by long ingratitude , escaped not the serpent ...
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