An Account of the Life and Military Services of Zibeon Hooker: A Lieutenant in the Army of Washington

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New Library Press.Net, 1918 - Počet stran: 35
 

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Strana 21 - Resolved, That such officers as are now in service and shall continue therein to the end of the war, shall be entitled to receive the amount of five years...
Strana 21 - Congress then declared it to be their pleasure, "that such part of their federal armies as stood engaged to serve during the war, should, from and after the 3d day of November next, be absolutely discharged from the said service.
Strana 20 - May, 1778, all military officers who then were, or should thereafter be, in the service of the United States, and who should continue in service during the war, and not hold any office of profit under the United States, or any of them, should, after the conclusion of the war, be entitled to receive, annually, for the term of seven years, if they should...
Strana 21 - Revolution, who were either killed hi service, became supernumerary, or served to the end of the war, and acquired the right to...
Strana 28 - Oct. 30, 1775; also, list of men raised to serve in the Continental Army from Capt.
Strana 33 - Line, who was one of the original members of the Society of the Cincinnati in the State of Virginia, founded here in Fredericksburg on 6 October 1783. We are persuaded that both father and son lived up to the motto of their family and were True to the End.
Strana 19 - The definitive treaty of peace was signed on the 23d of September, and Congress, having ratified it, they issued a proclamation to disband their army. The proclamation purports, " that part of the army which stood engaged to serve during the war, and by several acts of Congress had "been furloughed, should be absolutely discharged after the 3d of November from said service, and that the further service in the field of the officers deranged...
Strana 12 - ... ground, yet he has left no record of these events, except to correct some misstatements made by the historians of that period, in relation to the storming the works of the German reserve, on the 7th of October, and a few other matters. In front of those works was an open field, bounded by a wood, at the distance of one hundred and twenty yards. In the skirt of this wood Col. Putnam was posted with the fifth and sixth regiments of the Massachusetts line, under his command. Both the right and left...
Strana 20 - ... Oliver Phelps and Nathaniel Gorham, for one million of dollars, and the other to John Brown and others, for three thousand three hundred dollars and some cents. The * Military Lands" as they were called, were set apart by the legislature, in 1782, for the officers and soldiers of the state of New York, who should serve in the army of the United States till the end of the war, according to law. The military tracts contained about one million eight hundred thousand acres, comprehending, generally...

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