Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Volumen44The Society, 1911 |
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... morning after Burgoyne's capitulation , the head of the Patriot column would have been in motion towards Albany . Surveying the chess - board , and the character and location of the pieces upon it , Frederick might have argued somewhat ...
... morning after Burgoyne's capitulation , the head of the Patriot column would have been in motion towards Albany . Surveying the chess - board , and the character and location of the pieces upon it , Frederick might have argued somewhat ...
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... morning of Lützen ( May 2 , 1813 ) ; as he does so , " le nez en l'air et la main en visière sur les yeux , " he remarks to the conscript at his side " C'est bien vu de leur part ; ils apprennent tous les jours les malices de la guerre ...
... morning of Lützen ( May 2 , 1813 ) ; as he does so , " le nez en l'air et la main en visière sur les yeux , " he remarks to the conscript at his side " C'est bien vu de leur part ; ils apprennent tous les jours les malices de la guerre ...
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... morning of September 13 , 1759 ; but in 1777 he was forty - eight years old , and , becoming heavy in person , had apparently lost any mental or physical alertness he might once have possessed . Certainly , it cannot be claimed that ...
... morning of September 13 , 1759 ; but in 1777 he was forty - eight years old , and , becoming heavy in person , had apparently lost any mental or physical alertness he might once have possessed . Certainly , it cannot be claimed that ...
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... morning behind the ammunition train and reached the camp of the brigade at seven the next morning , just as the latter was moving out of camp on its next day's march . All through the night we had been pulling wagons out of the mud ...
... morning behind the ammunition train and reached the camp of the brigade at seven the next morning , just as the latter was moving out of camp on its next day's march . All through the night we had been pulling wagons out of the mud ...
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... morning , would often take a good three mile an hour gait , which the leading files and companies would keep up with fairly well for a time ; but the rear companies would soon be in trouble , and the consequence would be much straggling ...
... morning , would often take a good three mile an hour gait , which the leading files and companies would keep up with fairly well for a time ; but the rear companies would soon be in trouble , and the consequence would be much straggling ...
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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.