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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... probably , rendered advisable , was considered as surrendering lake Champlain to the enemy , and opening to them the whole country of New England . The field officers unanimously remonstrated against it ; and general Washington himself ...
... probably , rendered advisable , was considered as surrendering lake Champlain to the enemy , and opening to them the whole country of New England . The field officers unanimously remonstrated against it ; and general Washington himself ...
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... probably prompt them . Accordingly , an expedition was planned against Rhode Island . The land forces , amounting to about three thousand men , were commanded by general sir Henry Clinton , and the fleet to be employed in this service ...
... probably prompt them . Accordingly , an expedition was planned against Rhode Island . The land forces , amounting to about three thousand men , were commanded by general sir Henry Clinton , and the fleet to be employed in this service ...
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... probably , one of the motives for the expedi- tion . On being pressed through the Jerseys , with an army daily diminishing in its numbers , general Washington had called on Massachus- setts for a re - enforcement of militia , and six ...
... probably , one of the motives for the expedi- tion . On being pressed through the Jerseys , with an army daily diminishing in its numbers , general Washington had called on Massachus- setts for a re - enforcement of militia , and six ...
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... probably would have been made , had the system of furnishing clothes from the continental stores been originally adopted , many prize clothes , which might have saved from disease and death , soldiers exposed to the hardships of a ...
... probably would have been made , had the system of furnishing clothes from the continental stores been originally adopted , many prize clothes , which might have saved from disease and death , soldiers exposed to the hardships of a ...
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... probably retarded for a time the progress of depreciation ; but taxes not having been im- posed early , or so heavily as the public exi- gences required , the value of the money , in spite of every effort to prevent it , sunk so low ...
... probably retarded for a time the progress of depreciation ; but taxes not having been im- posed early , or so heavily as the public exi- gences required , the value of the money , in spite of every effort to prevent it , sunk so low ...
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