Life of Washington: A Biography, Personal, Military, and Political, Volume 1Virtue, 1860 - Presidents |
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Page 21
... colonies , and that from very good reason : because the design of the settlement was the extension of com- merce , and not the foundation of a city or a new empire . " * The colony was subjected to excessive commercial oppression . By ...
... colonies , and that from very good reason : because the design of the settlement was the extension of com- merce , and not the foundation of a city or a new empire . " * The colony was subjected to excessive commercial oppression . By ...
Page 67
... colonies was supposed to amount to more than one million , and that of the French was not estimated to exceed fifty or sixty thousand , the latter had still great advantages , independent of any support from the mother country , which ...
... colonies was supposed to amount to more than one million , and that of the French was not estimated to exceed fifty or sixty thousand , the latter had still great advantages , independent of any support from the mother country , which ...
Page 70
... colonies could not be even combined for their common defence . But events were rapidly occurring which gave life to the plans of union first proposed from Philadelphia in 1751 , and more distinctly an- nounced at Albany , by Franklin ...
... colonies could not be even combined for their common defence . But events were rapidly occurring which gave life to the plans of union first proposed from Philadelphia in 1751 , and more distinctly an- nounced at Albany , by Franklin ...
Page 93
... COLONIES -CAPTAIN TRENT SENT TO THE OHIO - WASHINGTON STATIONED AT ALEXANDRIA — TEMPER OF THE HOUSE OF BURGESSES -SUP- PLIES VOTED — WASHINGTON MADE A LIEUTENANT COLONEL — -MUSE , A MAJOR , AND VAN BRAAM A CAPTAIN - MARCH TO THE ...
... COLONIES -CAPTAIN TRENT SENT TO THE OHIO - WASHINGTON STATIONED AT ALEXANDRIA — TEMPER OF THE HOUSE OF BURGESSES -SUP- PLIES VOTED — WASHINGTON MADE A LIEUTENANT COLONEL — -MUSE , A MAJOR , AND VAN BRAAM A CAPTAIN - MARCH TO THE ...
Page 143
... COLONIES BE TAXED ? 143 but he was not at liberty to depart from his instructions , in which the recent fortifications of the enemy in the valley of the Ohio were named as the objects to which he was to direct his personal attention ...
... COLONIES BE TAXED ? 143 but he was not at liberty to depart from his instructions , in which the recent fortifications of the enemy in the valley of the Ohio were named as the objects to which he was to direct his personal attention ...
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