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... chief His early life His character · He sets out for Massachusetts The British troops at Boston Generals Gage and Burgoyne Movements of the Americans Battle of Bunker's Hill Its results Letters of General Gage Speech of Patrick Henry ...
... chief His early life His character · He sets out for Massachusetts The British troops at Boston Generals Gage and Burgoyne Movements of the Americans Battle of Bunker's Hill Its results Letters of General Gage Speech of Patrick Henry ...
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... chief . These purported : that no obedience was due to the late Acts of Parliament ; that no taxes should be paid to Government ; that the persons who had accepted seats in the Council by nomination from the King had acted in direct ...
... chief . These purported : that no obedience was due to the late Acts of Parliament ; that no taxes should be paid to Government ; that the persons who had accepted seats in the Council by nomination from the King had acted in direct ...
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... chiefs Artemas Ward and Jedediah Preble , who had seen some service in the late Canadian war ; and they enrolled a great number of selected Militia or MINUTE - MEN , So called from their engagement which was to appear in arms at a ...
... chiefs Artemas Ward and Jedediah Preble , who had seen some service in the late Canadian war ; and they enrolled a great number of selected Militia or MINUTE - MEN , So called from their engagement which was to appear in arms at a ...
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... chief was the Earl of Sandwich . He rose with much heat to protest against the Bill , which he said he could never believe to be the production of any British Peer , but which seemed to him rather the work of some American ; and here he ...
... chief was the Earl of Sandwich . He rose with much heat to protest against the Bill , which he said he could never believe to be the production of any British Peer , but which seemed to him rather the work of some American ; and here he ...
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... chief command in North Ame- rica . Even already Lord Howe stood high in the confi- dence of the Cabinet . Another channel for discussion with Dr. Franklin was Mr. David Barclay , a friend of Lord Dartmouth and Lord Hyde . Much earnest ...
... chief command in North Ame- rica . Even already Lord Howe stood high in the confi- dence of the Cabinet . Another channel for discussion with Dr. Franklin was Mr. David Barclay , a friend of Lord Dartmouth and Lord Hyde . Much earnest ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Acts afterwards American Archives appeared appointed arms army Arnold artillery Assembly battle Bill Boston Britain British troops Bunker's Hill Burgoyne Burke called Canada Carleton chief Clinton Colonel Colonies command Congress Correspondence Council Crown declared deemed defence Delaware despatched detachment Earl enemy England English ensued Fayette feeling fire force Fort Edward Franklin friends Gage Governor honour hope House of Commons ington Jared Sparks Jerseys John the Painter King King's La Fayette late least less letter Lord Camden Lord Chatham Lord Cornwallis Lord John Cavendish Lord North Lord Rockingham Majesty March Massachusetts measure ment Militia Ministers months never occasion officers opposite Parliament party passed peace period Philadelphia prisoners province quarters rank Reed repeal Resolutions Saratoga says sent side Silas Deane soldiers Sparks Sparks's speech spirit supplies thousand tion town treaty vote Washington whole words wounded Writings York
Pasajes populares
Página 63 - MR. STRAHAN, You are a member of parliament, and one of that majority which has doomed my country to destruction. — You have begun to burn our towns, and murder our people. — Look upon your hands! — They are stained with the blood of your relations ! — You and I were long friends: — You are now my enemy, — and I am • Yours, B. FRANKLIN.
Página 48 - His violent prejudice against our West Indian and American settlers appeared whenever there was an opportunity. Towards the conclusion of his " Taxation no Tyranny," he says, " how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?
Página 203 - ... against your Protestant brethren; to lay waste their country, to desolate their dwellings, and extirpate their race and name, with these horrible hell-hounds of savage war! — hell-hounds, I say, of savage war.
Página 307 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Página 202 - That God and nature put into our hands ! " I know not what ideas that lord may entertain of God and nature; but I know that such abominable principles are equally abhorrent to religion and humanity. What! to attribute the sacred sanction of God and nature to the massacres of the Indian scalping-knife — to the cannibal savage torturing, murdering...
Página 230 - ... why is not the latter commenced without hesitation ? I am not, I confess, well informed of the resources of this kingdom ; but I trust it has still sufficient to maintain its just rights, though I know them not. But, my Lords, any state is better than despair. Let us at least make one effort ; and if we must fall, let us fall like men...
Página 22 - When your lordships look at the papers transmitted us from America, when you consider their decency, firmness, and wisdom, you cannot but respect their cause, and wish to make it your own.
Página 22 - We shall be forced ultimately to retract; let us retract while we can, not when we must. I say we must necessarily undo these violent oppressive acts: they must be repealed— you will repeal them; I pledge myself for it, that you will in the end repeal them; I stake my reputation on it: I will consent to be taken for an idiot if they are not finally repealed.
Página 34 - Young man, there is America — which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners ; yet shall, before you taste of death, shew itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.
Página 111 - The check our detachment sustained on the 27th ultimo has dispirited too great a proportion of our troops and filled their minds with apprehension and despair. The militia, instead of calling forth their utmost efforts to a brave and manly opposition, in order to repair our losses, are dismayed, intractable, and impatient to return. Great numbers of them have gone off; in some instances almost by whole regiments, by half ones, and by companies at a time.