Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Volumen44The Society, 1911 |
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... army , twenty - five thousand strong at New York , operating on the easy line of the Hudson , in full co - operation with the fleet could easily open the route , and insure the in- vading column constant and ample supplies . In close ...
... army , twenty - five thousand strong at New York , operating on the easy line of the Hudson , in full co - operation with the fleet could easily open the route , and insure the in- vading column constant and ample supplies . In close ...
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... army under Washington , in every respect inferior to the force at Howe's own disposal ; and this army it would be his aim to bring to the issue of pitched battle on almost any terms , with a view to its total destruction or dispersal ...
... army under Washington , in every respect inferior to the force at Howe's own disposal ; and this army it would be his aim to bring to the issue of pitched battle on almost any terms , with a view to its total destruction or dispersal ...
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... army should have been his objective . Only seven thousand strong , Howe could oppose twenty thousand to it ( Fisher , II . 11 ) either for direct attack or purposes of manoeuvre . Washington's army disposed of or held off , Howe ...
... army should have been his objective . Only seven thousand strong , Howe could oppose twenty thousand to it ( Fisher , II . 11 ) either for direct attack or purposes of manoeuvre . Washington's army disposed of or held off , Howe ...
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... army free to go where they liked and to do what they pleased , quite unmolested ; but , instead of turning his face north , and marching up to meet Burgoyne , thus making secure the Hudson line of communication with Canada , the British ...
... army free to go where they liked and to do what they pleased , quite unmolested ; but , instead of turning his face north , and marching up to meet Burgoyne , thus making secure the Hudson line of communication with Canada , the British ...
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... army at Wilmington , and proceeding thence to Philadelphia , Howe had recourse to another of those flanking movements to which , after his Bunker Hill frontal experiment , he always showed himself addicted . The front door to Phila ...
... army at Wilmington , and proceeding thence to Philadelphia , Howe had recourse to another of those flanking movements to which , after his Bunker Hill frontal experiment , he always showed himself addicted . The front door to Phila ...
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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.