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... fome rapids that obftruct the navigation . Not above half the forces were yet arrived , when Montgomery , who was at Crown - Point , received fome intelligence which rendered him apprehenfive that a fchooner of confiderable force , with ...
... fome rapids that obftruct the navigation . Not above half the forces were yet arrived , when Montgomery , who was at Crown - Point , received fome intelligence which rendered him apprehenfive that a fchooner of confiderable force , with ...
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... fome time remanded back to America . The progress of Montgomery was for fome time retarded by a want of ammunition fufficient for carrying on a fiege , which of all operations demand the greatest fupply of powder and ball . The fort of ...
... fome time remanded back to America . The progress of Montgomery was for fome time retarded by a want of ammunition fufficient for carrying on a fiege , which of all operations demand the greatest fupply of powder and ball . The fort of ...
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... fome time made by Colonel M'Lean , for raifing a Scotch regiment , under the title of Royal Highland Emi- grants , to be compofed of natives of that country who had lately ar- rived in America , and who in confequence of the troubles ...
... fome time made by Colonel M'Lean , for raifing a Scotch regiment , under the title of Royal Highland Emi- grants , to be compofed of natives of that country who had lately ar- rived in America , and who in confequence of the troubles ...
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... fome difficulties which intervened in his approach , the fignal for en- gaging had been given , and the garrifon alarmed , before he could reach the place . He however preffed on in a narrow file , upon a fcanty path , with a precipice ...
... fome difficulties which intervened in his approach , the fignal for en- gaging had been given , and the garrifon alarmed , before he could reach the place . He however preffed on in a narrow file , upon a fcanty path , with a precipice ...
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... fome fanction to the holding of a convention , a Provin- cial Congress was affembled in the month of March , 1775 , who immediately ( under the cover of an old law of the year 1738 , which they faid to be fill effective ) took measures ...
... fome fanction to the holding of a convention , a Provin- cial Congress was affembled in the month of March , 1775 , who immediately ( under the cover of an old law of the year 1738 , which they faid to be fill effective ) took measures ...
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