The Story of the Revolution, Volume 2Charles Scribner's Sons, 1898 - United States |
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... leave of you , most devoutly wishing that your latter days may be as prosperous and happy as your former ones have been glorious and honorable . " REVOLUTION BY HENRY CABOT LODGE 11 VOLUME II NEW YORK. WASHINGTON'S FAREWELL TO HIS ...
... leave of you , most devoutly wishing that your latter days may be as prosperous and happy as your former ones have been glorious and honorable . " REVOLUTION BY HENRY CABOT LODGE 11 VOLUME II NEW YORK. WASHINGTON'S FAREWELL TO HIS ...
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... leave for their homes . The storm , moreover , had wrecked their camp and largely ruined their ammunition , so that they presently found themselves with only 6,000 men , cooped up on an island with an enemy whose forces were already su ...
... leave for their homes . The storm , moreover , had wrecked their camp and largely ruined their ammunition , so that they presently found themselves with only 6,000 men , cooped up on an island with an enemy whose forces were already su ...
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... leave the city before it was surrounded . Others of the " few " mentioned by Clinton were Davie , Pickens , and Davidson , all familiar with partisan warfare , all brave and able to rally men around them . The most important , however ...
... leave the city before it was surrounded . Others of the " few " mentioned by Clinton were Davie , Pickens , and Davidson , all familiar with partisan warfare , all brave and able to rally men around them . The most important , however ...
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... leave his army with eight hundred men when he was on the eve of battle , in the presence of a strong , well- disciplined , well - commanded enemy , and when his own forces were largely composed of raw militia , who , unlike Sumter's men ...
... leave his army with eight hundred men when he was on the eve of battle , in the presence of a strong , well- disciplined , well - commanded enemy , and when his own forces were largely composed of raw militia , who , unlike Sumter's men ...
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... leave the field , and when they met the British , " give them Indian play . " Thus reorganized and instructed they set forth . As they marched they picked up small bands of refugees , and heard of a large body of four hundred militia ...
... leave the field , and when they met the British , " give them Indian play . " Thus reorganized and instructed they set forth . As they marched they picked up small bands of refugees , and heard of a large body of four hundred militia ...
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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.