History of the American Revolution: With a Preliminary View of the Character and Principles of the Colonists, and Their Controversies with Great BritainN. Hickman, 1843 - 372 páginas |
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... Position of the Armies , July 1776 - Difficulties of Washington - Attempts at Nego- tiation - Battle of Long Island - Retreat of Americans - Evacuation of New York - Skirmishing - Further retreat - Measures of Congress - Conferences on ...
... Position of the Armies , July 1776 - Difficulties of Washington - Attempts at Nego- tiation - Battle of Long Island - Retreat of Americans - Evacuation of New York - Skirmishing - Further retreat - Measures of Congress - Conferences on ...
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... Position of the Armies , July 1776 - Difficulties of Washington - Attempts at Nego- tiation - Battle of Long Island - Retreat of Americans - Evacuation of New York - Skirmishing - Further retreat - Measures of Congress - Conferences on ...
... Position of the Armies , July 1776 - Difficulties of Washington - Attempts at Nego- tiation - Battle of Long Island - Retreat of Americans - Evacuation of New York - Skirmishing - Further retreat - Measures of Congress - Conferences on ...
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... position , and improved understanding of their rights . Thus was a peculiar people trained up to habits of independence , and experience of the benefits and usages of liberty , under circumstances more favorable than had ever been ...
... position , and improved understanding of their rights . Thus was a peculiar people trained up to habits of independence , and experience of the benefits and usages of liberty , under circumstances more favorable than had ever been ...
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... position and their limited numbers , were within the reach of improvement , it ought not to surprise us , that men of the best intentions and widest range of intellect and acquirement should have been the advocates of monarchy , the ...
... position and their limited numbers , were within the reach of improvement , it ought not to surprise us , that men of the best intentions and widest range of intellect and acquirement should have been the advocates of monarchy , the ...
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... position in the midst of an almost unte- nanted continent ; and were finally aggravated to resistance and revolution by violent assaults . At the distance of three thousand miles from the pomp of courts , the seductive in- fluences of ...
... position in the midst of an almost unte- nanted continent ; and were finally aggravated to resistance and revolution by violent assaults . At the distance of three thousand miles from the pomp of courts , the seductive in- fluences of ...
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