A Popular History of the United States: From the First Discovery of the Western Hemisphere by the Northmen, to the End of the First Century of the Union of the States. Preceded by a Sketch of the Prehistoric Period and the Age of the Mound Builders, Том 3Scribner, Armstrong, & Company, 1879 |
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... COMMAND . · CAPTURE OF TICONDEROGA AND CROWN POINT . - EXPEDITION DOWN LAKE CHAMPLAIN . RICHARD MONTGOMERY . — SIEGE OF ST . JOHN's . — EXPEDITION TO FORT CHAMBLY . - CAPTURE OF MONTREAL . - ARNOLD'S EXPE- DITION THROUGH MAINE TO CANADA ...
... COMMAND . · CAPTURE OF TICONDEROGA AND CROWN POINT . - EXPEDITION DOWN LAKE CHAMPLAIN . RICHARD MONTGOMERY . — SIEGE OF ST . JOHN's . — EXPEDITION TO FORT CHAMBLY . - CAPTURE OF MONTREAL . - ARNOLD'S EXPE- DITION THROUGH MAINE TO CANADA ...
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... , but a hot - headed militia captain , quite unfit , as his own letters show , for important command in a time of emergency . 1689. ] NEW YORK AND THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION . governor 12 [ CHAP . I. NEW YORK UNDER THE ENGLISH .
... , but a hot - headed militia captain , quite unfit , as his own letters show , for important command in a time of emergency . 1689. ] NEW YORK AND THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION . governor 12 [ CHAP . I. NEW YORK UNDER THE ENGLISH .
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... command , it followed , almost of course , that those who in arms sup- ported the little state took the place for which the Council showed it- self wholly incompetent . Among the captains of the militia Jacob 1 The Bostones , as a ...
... command , it followed , almost of course , that those who in arms sup- ported the little state took the place for which the Council showed it- self wholly incompetent . Among the captains of the militia Jacob 1 The Bostones , as a ...
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... command . BA Leisler's House.1 - below . Leisler's critics afterwards said that he started this rumor ; - certainly he improved it . He gave the signal agreed upon , and the train - bands met . The captains of some companies ordered ...
... command . BA Leisler's House.1 - below . Leisler's critics afterwards said that he started this rumor ; - certainly he improved it . He gave the signal agreed upon , and the train - bands met . The captains of some companies ordered ...
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... command of the fort , gave these instructions to Frontenac , Governor of Canada , with regard to the whole Province of New York : " If among the inhabitants of New York there are any Catholics whose fidelity can be assured , they may be ...
... command of the fort , gave these instructions to Frontenac , Governor of Canada , with regard to the whole Province of New York : " If among the inhabitants of New York there are any Catholics whose fidelity can be assured , they may be ...
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