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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... winter campaign , were suffered to pass into the hands of private individuals . In the eastern country , where these prizes were generally brought , the local governments were able to make some provision for the clothing of their quotas ...
... winter campaign , were suffered to pass into the hands of private individuals . In the eastern country , where these prizes were generally brought , the local governments were able to make some provision for the clothing of their quotas ...
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... winter campaigns had been made , in the course of the last of which , the soldiers , exposed half naked to a climate of extreme VOL . III . I 1776 . CHAP . I. rigour , suffered excessive hardships GEORGE WASHINGTON . 57.
... winter campaigns had been made , in the course of the last of which , the soldiers , exposed half naked to a climate of extreme VOL . III . I 1776 . CHAP . I. rigour , suffered excessive hardships GEORGE WASHINGTON . 57.
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... winter for fuel , forage , and provisions ; or so to weaken their posts at Brunswick and Amboy , as to give general Washington an opportunity of attacking them with some advantage . If he should be disap- pointed in this expectation ...
... winter for fuel , forage , and provisions ; or so to weaken their posts at Brunswick and Amboy , as to give general Washington an opportunity of attacking them with some advantage . If he should be disap- pointed in this expectation ...
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... winter . In the course of it , the British loss was supposed to be more considerable than what they had sustained at Trenton and Princeton ; and hopes were enter- tained that , from the scarcity of forage , neither their cavalry , nor ...
... winter . In the course of it , the British loss was supposed to be more considerable than what they had sustained at Trenton and Princeton ; and hopes were enter- tained that , from the scarcity of forage , neither their cavalry , nor ...
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... winter campaign , in the face of a superior army ; the many deaths resulting from those hardships , and probably in some degree from an injudicious organiza- tion of the hospital department , * which was found to be the tomb of the sick ...
... winter campaign , in the face of a superior army ; the many deaths resulting from those hardships , and probably in some degree from an injudicious organiza- tion of the hospital department , * which was found to be the tomb of the sick ...
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