Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Volumen44The Society, 1911 |
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... French Emperor were , I am convinced , decidedly though courteously repelled . The Duke of Argyll was positively friendly to the North . The same might probably be said of Sir George Cornewall Lewis , though he was sure to be cautious ...
... French Emperor were , I am convinced , decidedly though courteously repelled . The Duke of Argyll was positively friendly to the North . The same might probably be said of Sir George Cornewall Lewis , though he was sure to be cautious ...
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... French veterans a fifth more numerous than his own conglomerate command.1 As Napier in recording these events truly observes , " the difference between a common general and a great captain is immense , the one is victorious when the ...
... French veterans a fifth more numerous than his own conglomerate command.1 As Napier in recording these events truly observes , " the difference between a common general and a great captain is immense , the one is victorious when the ...
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... French officers who took part in the operations on the Brandywine , one ( Lafayette ) observes , " Had the enemy marched directly to Derby , the American army would have been cut up and destroyed ; they lost a precious night " ( Irving ...
... French officers who took part in the operations on the Brandywine , one ( Lafayette ) observes , " Had the enemy marched directly to Derby , the American army would have been cut up and destroyed ; they lost a precious night " ( Irving ...
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... French alliance , jeopardizing as it did for the time being and until Rodney's victory ( February 19 , 1782 ) — the British control of the sea , had in June , 1778 , introduced a new and controlling factor into the strategic situation ...
... French alliance , jeopardizing as it did for the time being and until Rodney's victory ( February 19 , 1782 ) — the British control of the sea , had in June , 1778 , introduced a new and controlling factor into the strategic situation ...
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... French cavalry got inside your square yester- day ? " To which he received the no less gruff reply , “ Is that so , your Grace ; but ye did'na happen to hear they got out again , did ye ? " It was easy enough 50 [ OCT . MASSACHUSETTS ...
... French cavalry got inside your square yester- day ? " To which he received the no less gruff reply , “ Is that so , your Grace ; but ye did'na happen to hear they got out again , did ye ? " It was easy enough 50 [ OCT . MASSACHUSETTS ...
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Página 241 - God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them: and it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these: so that the one came not near the other all the night.
Página 270 - I say unto you, except ye eat the flesh, and drink the blood of the Son of Man, ye have no life in you...
Página 254 - Had I been vested with absolute power in this State, I have often said and still think that I would last Spring have desolated all Long Island, Staten Island, the City and County of New York and all that part of the County of West Chester which lies below the mountains.
Página 160 - A View of the Evidence relative to the CONDUCT of the AMERICAN WAR under SIR WILLIAM HOWE...
Página 401 - I will never send another minister to France without assurances that he will be received, respected, and honored as the representative of a great, free, powerful, and independent nation.
Página 401 - In no event is a treaty to be purchased with money, by loan or otherwise ; there can be no safety in a treaty so obtained. A loan to the Republic would violate our neutrality ; and a douceur to the men now in power, might, by their successors, be urged as a reason for annulling the treaty, or as a precedent for further and repeated demands.
Página 168 - America, in the years 1777 and 1778, to different persons in England; containing observations on the general management of the war, and on the conduct of our principal commanders, in the revolted colonies.
Página 386 - Britain yet engages the alliance and co-operation of savages in war; but her Government has invariably disclaimed all countenance or authorization to her subjects to instigate them against us in time of peace. Yet, so it has happened, that, from the period of our established independence to this day, all the Indian wars with which we have been afflicted have been distinctly traceable to the instigation of English traders or agents.
Página 415 - The right must unquestionably be exercised with as little of personal harshness and of vexation in the mode as possible; but soften it as much as you can, it is still a right of force, though of lawful force—something in the nature of civil process, where force is employed, but a lawful force, which cannot lawfully be resisted.
Página 168 - Late Speaker of the House of Assembly of Pennsylvania. Before the House of Commons, in a committee on the American papers.