The Story of the Revolution, Volume 2Charles Scribner's Sons, 1898 - United States |
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... American loss was two hundred and eleven , the British two hundred and sixty . It was a well - fought action under ... Americans and their allies , which it took time and effort to allay . Clinton , arriving as usual too late , returned ...
... American loss was two hundred and eleven , the British two hundred and sixty . It was a well - fought action under ... Americans and their allies , which it took time and effort to allay . Clinton , arriving as usual too late , returned ...
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... Americans having no organized navy , and that was the extent of their power . This , of itself , showed that they were utterly de- feated in the attempt to conquer , and could not hold America by force of arms ; but the real state of ...
... Americans having no organized navy , and that was the extent of their power . This , of itself , showed that they were utterly de- feated in the attempt to conquer , and could not hold America by force of arms ; but the real state of ...
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... America . When France , heedless of his wishes , formed the American alliance , he was filled with profound disgust , all the deeper because his hand had thus been forced . He drove a hard bargain with France in the treaty which pledged ...
... America . When France , heedless of his wishes , formed the American alliance , he was filled with profound disgust , all the deeper because his hand had thus been forced . He drove a hard bargain with France in the treaty which pledged ...
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... American Continent , and the whole future of the United States was staked on the issue . Yet even while Spanish statesmen wrangled with Vergennes , and schemed and intrigued for Spanish dominion on the Mississippi , the question was be ...
... American Continent , and the whole future of the United States was staked on the issue . Yet even while Spanish statesmen wrangled with Vergennes , and schemed and intrigued for Spanish dominion on the Mississippi , the question was be ...
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... American border . It was a cruel , ferocious war , as all Indian wars are , marked by am- bush , murder , fire , pillage , and massacre . It fell not on armies and soldiers , but on pioneer farmers , backwoods- men , and hunters , with ...
... American border . It was a cruel , ferocious war , as all Indian wars are , marked by am- bush , murder , fire , pillage , and massacre . It fell not on armies and soldiers , but on pioneer farmers , backwoods- men , and hunters , with ...
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advance allies American army American Revolution André Anthony Wayne arms Arnold attack battle began British British army broken Camden camp campaign captured Charleston Clark Clinton Colonel colonies command Congress CONSTITUTION ISLAND Cornwallis Cowpens crossed DANIEL MORGAN defeat detached enemy England English expedition failed Ferguson fight fire flank fleet force fought France Franklin French garrison gave GEORGE ROGERS CLARK Georgia Greene Greene's Hamilton hands Hudson hundred Indian Kaskaskia killed Lafayette land Lord Lord Rawdon loyalists marched Marion military militia Morgan mountains moved movement North Carolina numbers officers once Oswald Paulus Hook peace peril Pickens prisoners Rawdon redoubts result retreat riflemen river Rochambeau Savannah sent Shelburne side siege SIEGE OF YORKTOWN soldiers South Spain Stony Point strong Sumter surrender Tarleton thence tion took town treaty troops United victory Vincennes Virginia wallis Washington Wayne West Point withdrew wounded York Yorktown
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Page 243 - This England never did, (nor never shall,) Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.
Page 253 - He has constrained our fellow-citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
Page 259 - That there shall be no future confiscations made, nor any prosecutions commenced against any person or persons for or by reason of the part which he or they may have taken in the present war, and that no person shall, on that account, suffer any future loss or damage, either in his person, liberty or property...
Page 252 - He has endeavored to prevent the population of these States ; for that purpose obstructing the laws for the naturalization of foreigners, refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands.
Page 256 - Highlands; along the said Highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the north western most head of Connecticut River; thence down along the middle of that river, to the forty-fifth degree of north latitude; from thence, by a line due west on said latitude, until it strikes the river Iroquois or...
Page 252 - He has called together legislative bodies, at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the repository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
Page 258 - Congress shall earnestly recommend it to the legislatures of the respective states, to provide for the restitution of all estates, rights and properties, which have been confiscated, belonging to real British subjects, and...
Page 252 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining, in the meantime, exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Page 253 - He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation.
Page 207 - Spain has taken four years to consider whether she should treat with us or not. Give her forty, and let us in the meantime mind our own business.