The Life of George Washington: Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of His Country, and First President of the United States, Volumen1J. Crissy, 1832 |
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... colonies . Instead of receiving assistance , Virginia was required to send four hundred men to South Carolina . Not dis- couraged by these disappointments , Colonel Washington continued inde- fatigable in his endeavours to impress on Mr ...
... colonies . Instead of receiving assistance , Virginia was required to send four hundred men to South Carolina . Not dis- couraged by these disappointments , Colonel Washington continued inde- fatigable in his endeavours to impress on Mr ...
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... colonies , he said , " You will excuse me , sir , for saying , that I think there never was , and perhaps never again will be , so favourable an opportunity as the present for reducing fort Du Quesne . Several prisoners have made their ...
... colonies , he said , " You will excuse me , sir , for saying , that I think there never was , and perhaps never again will be , so favourable an opportunity as the present for reducing fort Du Quesne . Several prisoners have made their ...
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... colonies will be desolated by such an accession to the enemy's strength . These must be the consequences of a miscarriage ; and a miscarriage , the almost necessary consequence of an attempt to march the army by this route . " Colonel ...
... colonies will be desolated by such an accession to the enemy's strength . These must be the consequences of a miscarriage ; and a miscarriage , the almost necessary consequence of an attempt to march the army by this route . " Colonel ...
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... colonies ; and the pressure on Canada was such as to disable the governor of that province from detaching troops to fort Du Quesne . Without the aid of these causes , the extraordinary and unac- countable delays of the campaign must ...
... colonies ; and the pressure on Canada was such as to disable the governor of that province from detaching troops to fort Du Quesne . Without the aid of these causes , the extraordinary and unac- countable delays of the campaign must ...
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... Colonies , and all the forces now raised , or to be raised by them . " * On the succeeding day , when the President communicated this ap- pointment to him , he expressed his high sense of the honour conferred upon him , and his firm ...
... Colonies , and all the forces now raised , or to be raised by them . " * On the succeeding day , when the President communicated this ap- pointment to him , he expressed his high sense of the honour conferred upon him , and his firm ...
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Página 8 - For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies...
Página 9 - He has constrained our fellow-citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
Página 417 - No State shall lay any imposts or duties, which may interfere with any stipulations in treaties, entered into by the United States in Congress assembled, with any king, prince or state, in pursuance of any treaties already proposed by Congress, to the courts of France and Spain.
Página 7 - He has endeavoured to prevent the Population of these States for that Purpose obstructing the Laws for naturalization of Foreigners refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither and raising the Conditions of new appropriations of Lands...
Página 6 - When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect for the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
Página 417 - ... provided that no treaty of commerce shall be made whereby the legislative power of the respective states shall be restrained from imposing such imposts and duties on foreigners as their own people are subjected to, or from prohibiting the exportation or importation of any species of goods or commodities whatsoever...
Página 10 - Nor have we been wanting in attention to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here.
Página 71 - DO, in the name and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies, are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states ; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connexion between them and the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved...
Página 230 - Neither of the two parties shall conclude either truce or peace with Great Britain without the formal consent of the other first obtained; and they mutually engage not to lay down their arms until the independence of the United States shall have been formally or tacitly assured by the treaty or treaties that shall terminate the war.
Página 14 - I call upon the honour of your Lordships to reverence the dignity of your ancestors, and to maintain your own. I call upon the spirit and humanity of my country to vindicate the national character.