Annual Register, Volume 19Edmund Burke 1779 - History |
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... first thoughts , and by pushing forward a party joined by fome Canadians , he eafily made himfelf master of that fort . Here he found confider- able stores ; but the article of greateft confequence to him was the gunpowder , which they ...
... first thoughts , and by pushing forward a party joined by fome Canadians , he eafily made himfelf master of that fort . Here he found confider- able stores ; but the article of greateft confequence to him was the gunpowder , which they ...
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... first they had beheld for thirty- one days , having spent that whole time in traverfing an hideous wil derness , without ever meeting any thing human . The Canadians received them here with the fame good - will that Montgomery's corps ...
... first they had beheld for thirty- one days , having spent that whole time in traverfing an hideous wil derness , without ever meeting any thing human . The Canadians received them here with the fame good - will that Montgomery's corps ...
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... first act was to oblige all thofe to quit the town with their families , who re- fufed to take up arms in its de- fence . The garrifon , including all orders who did duty , confifted of about 1500 men , a number , fuppofing them even ...
... first act was to oblige all thofe to quit the town with their families , who re- fufed to take up arms in its de- fence . The garrifon , including all orders who did duty , confifted of about 1500 men , a number , fuppofing them even ...
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... first time experimentally felt . Befides the expence of these articles we have mentioned , and the charge of flour , corn , and falted provifions , near half a million of money was expended in the purchase of coined Spanish and Portugal ...
... first time experimentally felt . Befides the expence of these articles we have mentioned , and the charge of flour , corn , and falted provifions , near half a million of money was expended in the purchase of coined Spanish and Portugal ...
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... first loss , great as it might be , was not , however , the worst part of the confequence . Thofe wide and ruined dominions , irritated as the remaining poffeffors ever muft con- tinue , with an immortal abhor- rence of our name and ...
... first loss , great as it might be , was not , however , the worst part of the confequence . Thofe wide and ruined dominions , irritated as the remaining poffeffors ever muft con- tinue , with an immortal abhor- rence of our name and ...
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