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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... command of a regi- ment . - Extreme distress of the frontiers , and exertions of Colonel Washington to augment the regular forces of the colony . - Expedition against fort Du Quesne.- Defeat of Major Grant . - Fort Du Quesne evacuated ...
... command of a regi- ment . - Extreme distress of the frontiers , and exertions of Colonel Washington to augment the regular forces of the colony . - Expedition against fort Du Quesne.- Defeat of Major Grant . - Fort Du Quesne evacuated ...
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... command of this regiment was given to Mr. Fry ; † and * See note , No. I , at the end of the volume . + With an unaffected modesty which the accumulated honours of his after life could never impair , Major Washington , though the most ...
... command of this regiment was given to Mr. Fry ; † and * See note , No. I , at the end of the volume . + With an unaffected modesty which the accumulated honours of his after life could never impair , Major Washington , though the most ...
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... command from which I never expect to reap either honour or benefit ; but , on the contrary , have almost an absolute certainty of incurring displeasure below , while the murder of helpless families may be laid to my account here ...
... command from which I never expect to reap either honour or benefit ; but , on the contrary , have almost an absolute certainty of incurring displeasure below , while the murder of helpless families may be laid to my account here ...
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... command of General Thomas , took possession of the heights without opposition . Such was their activity and industry through the night that , although the ground was almost impenetrable , the works were sufficiently advanced by the ...
... command of General Thomas , took possession of the heights without opposition . Such was their activity and industry through the night that , although the ground was almost impenetrable , the works were sufficiently advanced by the ...
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... command of the army . The blockade raised . - General Sullivan takes the command . - Battle of the Three Rivers . - Canada evacuated . - General Carleton constructs a fleet . - Enters lake Champlain . - Defeats the American flotilla ...
... command of the army . The blockade raised . - General Sullivan takes the command . - Battle of the Three Rivers . - Canada evacuated . - General Carleton constructs a fleet . - Enters lake Champlain . - Defeats the American flotilla ...
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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.