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, Tập 3C.P. Wayne., 1804 |
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... York , but is obliged to relinquish it .... Sails out to Rhode Island , and arrives off Newport .... Sails to attack lord Howe , who appears off Rhode Island .... General Sullivan lays siege to Newport .... Both fleets dispersed by a ...
... York , but is obliged to relinquish it .... Sails out to Rhode Island , and arrives off Newport .... Sails to attack lord Howe , who appears off Rhode Island .... General Sullivan lays siege to Newport .... Both fleets dispersed by a ...
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... York , and enabling them to co - operate with each other , while it would in a great measure sever and disconnect the eastern from the middle , and southern states , was an event as much to be deprecated on the one side , as it was ...
... York , and enabling them to co - operate with each other , while it would in a great measure sever and disconnect the eastern from the middle , and southern states , was an event as much to be deprecated on the one side , as it was ...
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... York about the last of November , and without any material opposition , took pos- session of the island on which Newport , the capital of that state , stands , and gave , for a short time , a very serious alarm to the states CHAP . I ...
... York about the last of November , and without any material opposition , took pos- session of the island on which Newport , the capital of that state , stands , and gave , for a short time , a very serious alarm to the states CHAP . I ...
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... York ; but these people abandoned it when they were most needed , and no real service was ever afforded by them . * Colonel Gist was authorized in January 1777 , to engage five hundred Cherokees ; but he did not suc . ceed in this ...
... York ; but these people abandoned it when they were most needed , and no real service was ever afforded by them . * Colonel Gist was authorized in January 1777 , to engage five hundred Cherokees ; but he did not suc . ceed in this ...
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... York , the system , which had been so long very absurdly maintained , was abandoned , and an exchange of prisoners was agreed on . † 1776 . * Congress also directed an application to general Carleton on this subject ; and general ...
... York , the system , which had been so long very absurdly maintained , was abandoned , and an exchange of prisoners was agreed on . † 1776 . * Congress also directed an application to general Carleton on this subject ; and general ...
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