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Page 992
... given rise to so honorable a mark of distinction . " If my exertions , " he said , " should not be attended with the desired success , I trust the failure will be imputed to the true cause - the peculiarly distressed situation of our ...
... given rise to so honorable a mark of distinction . " If my exertions , " he said , " should not be attended with the desired success , I trust the failure will be imputed to the true cause - the peculiarly distressed situation of our ...
Page 996
... given in that city of an insurrection in favor of the royal cause that this part of the plan was abandoned . The cold on the night of the 25th was very severe . Snow , mingled with hail and rain , fell in great quantities , and so much ...
... given in that city of an insurrection in favor of the royal cause that this part of the plan was abandoned . The cold on the night of the 25th was very severe . Snow , mingled with hail and rain , fell in great quantities , and so much ...
Page 997
... given to attack at the instant of arrival , and after driving in the outguards to press rapidly after them into the town and prevent the main body from forming . Trenton was held by a detachment of 1,500 Hessians and a troop of British ...
... given to attack at the instant of arrival , and after driving in the outguards to press rapidly after them into the town and prevent the main body from forming . Trenton was held by a detachment of 1,500 Hessians and a troop of British ...
Page 1003
... to believe he is still upon the ground , waiting for them till morning . The stratagem is rendered the more complete by an order given to the men who are intrusted with the business to keep up the fires in full LIFE AND TIMES . 1003.
... to believe he is still upon the ground , waiting for them till morning . The stratagem is rendered the more complete by an order given to the men who are intrusted with the business to keep up the fires in full LIFE AND TIMES . 1003.
Page 1014
... given in the following extract from a letter addressed by Putnam to the Council of Safety of Pennsylvania on the day after it occurred : " Yesterday evening Colonel Nielson , with a hundred and fifty men at Lawrence's Neck , attacked ...
... given in the following extract from a letter addressed by Putnam to the Council of Safety of Pennsylvania on the day after it occurred : " Yesterday evening Colonel Nielson , with a hundred and fifty men at Lawrence's Neck , attacked ...
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Page 1504 - It is agreed that the people of the United States shall continue to enjoy unmolested the right to take fish of every kind on the Grand Bank, and on all the other banks of Newfoundland ; also, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and at all other places in the sea, where the inhabitants of both countries used at any time heretofore to fish...
Page 1503 - Woods; thence through the said lake to the most northwestern point thereof, and from thence on a due west course to the river Mississippi; thence by a line to be drawn along the middle of the said river Mississippi until it shall intersect the northernmost part of the thirty-first degree of north latitude.
Page 1503 - Lawrence from those which fall into the Atlantic ocean, to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut river, thence down along the middle of that river to the forty-fifth degree of north latitude...
Page 1502 - His Britannic Majesty acknowledges the said United States, viz., New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, to be Free, Sovereign and Independent States...
Page 1472 - ... let me request you to rely on the plighted faith of your country, and place a full confidence in the purity of the intentions of Congress...
Page 1027 - States under their direction; to appoint one of their number to preside; provided that no person be .allowed to serve in the office of president more than one year in any term of three years; to ascertain the necessary sums of money to be raised for the service of the United States...
Page 1297 - We have been half of our time without provisions, and are likely to continue so. We have no magazines, nor money to form them. We have lived upon expedients, until we can live no longer. In a word, the history of the war Is a history of false hopes and temporary devices, instead of system and economy.
Page 1026 - States, and exacting such postage on the papers passing through the same as may be requisite to defray the expenses of the said office : appointing all officers of the land forces in the service of the United States, excepting regimental officers: appointing all the officers of the naval forces, and commissioning all officers whatever in the service of the United States : making rules for the government and regulation of the said land and naval forces, and directing their operations.
Page 1504 - United States. And that persons of any other description shall have free liberty to go to any part or parts of any of the thirteen United States, and therein to remain twelve months, unmolested in their endeavours to obtain the restitution of such of their estates, rights and properties, as may have been confiscated...
Page 1491 - There are four things, which, I humbly conceive, are essential to the well-being, I may even venture to say, to the existence of the United States, as an independent power.