A History of the American Revolution; Comprehending All the Principal Events Both in the Field and in the Cabinet, Том 1F. Betts, 1822 |
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... determination of Washington..His retreat through the Jerseys ... Desperate situation of American af- fairs ... Capture of General Lee ... Issue of the campaign ... Measures of Congress ... Brilliant affair at Trenton ; at Prince- ton ...
... determination of Washington..His retreat through the Jerseys ... Desperate situation of American af- fairs ... Capture of General Lee ... Issue of the campaign ... Measures of Congress ... Brilliant affair at Trenton ; at Prince- ton ...
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... determined resis- tance , every effort which his successours made to ex- tend the chain . Thus it may be said , that the English Colonies in America , were originally settled upon the principles of independence , and that we owe more to ...
... determined resis- tance , every effort which his successours made to ex- tend the chain . Thus it may be said , that the English Colonies in America , were originally settled upon the principles of independence , and that we owe more to ...
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... determined to make a vigorous stand in support of the Ohio Company ; and for this purpose sent instruc- tions to all the Colonies to oppose the French by force of arms , in all encroachments upon what they persisted in calling British ...
... determined to make a vigorous stand in support of the Ohio Company ; and for this purpose sent instruc- tions to all the Colonies to oppose the French by force of arms , in all encroachments upon what they persisted in calling British ...
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... determined the Commander in Chief , to lay aside all offensive operations and go into winter quarters . No better success attended the schemes of his lordship , during the succeeding year . Instead of marching to the in- vasion of ...
... determined the Commander in Chief , to lay aside all offensive operations and go into winter quarters . No better success attended the schemes of his lordship , during the succeeding year . Instead of marching to the in- vasion of ...
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... determined to employ their united forces against the garrison of Louisbourg , in the island of Cape Breton . Nothing could have hap- pened more congenial to the wishes of the Marquis de Montcalm , than this determination on the part of ...
... determined to employ their united forces against the garrison of Louisbourg , in the island of Cape Breton . Nothing could have hap- pened more congenial to the wishes of the Marquis de Montcalm , than this determination on the part of ...
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Страница 262 - MR. PRESIDENT: Though I am truly sensible of the high honor done me, in this appointment, yet I feel great distress, from a consciousness that my abilities and military experience may not be equal to the extensive and important trust.
Страница 218 - Parliament, they are entitled to a free and exclusive power of legislation in their several Provincial legislatures, where their right of representation can alone be preserved, in all cases of taxation and internal polity, subject only to the negative of their Sovereign, in such manner as has been heretofore used and accustomed...
Страница 262 - But lest some unlucky event should happen unfavorable to my reputation, I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room that I this day declare, with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with.
Страница 95 - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
Страница 75 - They protected by your arms ! They have nobly taken up arms in your defence ; have exerted a valour amidst their constant and laborious industry, for the defence of a country whose frontier was drenched in blood, while its interior parts yielded all its little savings to your emolument.
Страница 356 - 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...
Страница 285 - ... we mean not to dissolve that union which has so long and so happily subsisted between us, and which we sincerely wish to see restored. Necessity has not yet driven us into that desperate measure, or induced us to excite any other nation to war against them. We have not raised armies with ambitious designs of separating from Great Britain, and establishing independent states.
Страница 219 - That the respective colonies are entitled to the common law of England, and more especially to the great and inestimable privilege of being tried by their peers of the vicinage, according to the course of that law.
Страница 359 - 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...
Страница 284 - Honour, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness which inevitably awaits them, if we basely entail hereditary bondage upon them.