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, Svazek 1J. Crissy, 1832 |
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... supplies , and starve him into a surrender , or fight him with a superiority of three to one . In this hazardous situation , a council of war unanimously advised a retreat to the fort at the Great Meadows , now termed fort Necessity ...
... supplies , and starve him into a surrender , or fight him with a superiority of three to one . In this hazardous situation , a council of war unanimously advised a retreat to the fort at the Great Meadows , now termed fort Necessity ...
Strana 7
... supplies for a winter cam- paign . With as little consideration , directions had been given for the immediate completion of the regiment , without furnishing a single shil- ling for the recruiting service . Although a long peace may ...
... supplies for a winter cam- paign . With as little consideration , directions had been given for the immediate completion of the regiment , without furnishing a single shil- ling for the recruiting service . Although a long peace may ...
Strana 8
... supplies must be brought to Venango , did not then afford a sufficient quantity of water for the purpose . A rapid movement therefore might enable him to carry the fort , before the arrival of the expected aid ; but if this measure ...
... supplies must be brought to Venango , did not then afford a sufficient quantity of water for the purpose . A rapid movement therefore might enable him to carry the fort , before the arrival of the expected aid ; but if this measure ...
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... supply of provisions for eighty - six days . In a letter of the same date addressed to Major Halket , aid of General Forbes , Colonel Washington thus expressed his forebodings of the mis- chiefs to be apprehended from the adoption of ...
... supply of provisions for eighty - six days . In a letter of the same date addressed to Major Halket , aid of General Forbes , Colonel Washington thus expressed his forebodings of the mis- chiefs to be apprehended from the adoption of ...
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... supplies , ( for the magazines were not yet in possession of military officers , ) who , instead of returning the ... supply of powder was received from Elizabethtown , in New Jersey . The utmost address was used to conceal from the ...
... supplies , ( for the magazines were not yet in possession of military officers , ) who , instead of returning the ... supply of powder was received from Elizabethtown , in New Jersey . The utmost address was used to conceal from the ...
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Strana 8 - For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies...
Strana 9 - He has constrained our fellow-citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
Strana 417 - No State shall lay any imposts or duties, which may interfere with any stipulations in treaties, entered into by the United States in Congress assembled, with any king, prince or state, in pursuance of any treaties already proposed by Congress, to the courts of France and Spain.
Strana 7 - 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...
Strana 6 - When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect for the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
Strana 417 - ... provided that no treaty of commerce shall be made whereby the legislative power of the respective states shall be restrained from imposing such imposts and duties on foreigners as their own people are subjected to, or from prohibiting the exportation or importation of any species of goods or commodities whatsoever...
Strana 10 - Nor have we been wanting in attention to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here.
Strana 71 - 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...
Strana 230 - Neither of the two parties shall conclude either truce or peace with Great Britain without the formal consent of the other first obtained; and they mutually engage not to lay down their arms until the independence of the United States shall have been formally or tacitly assured by the treaty or treaties that shall terminate the war.
Strana 14 - I call upon the honour of your Lordships to reverence the dignity of your ancestors, and to maintain your own. I call upon the spirit and humanity of my country to vindicate the national character.