Washington and the American Republic, المجلد 2Virtue & Yorston, 1870 |
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الصفحة 6
... Americans : they nobly refused . He sent a message to the Parliament of Ireland , requesting a supply of troops for the same purpose : that body basely responded by voting four thousand men for the American service . They ser- vilely ...
... Americans : they nobly refused . He sent a message to the Parliament of Ireland , requesting a supply of troops for the same purpose : that body basely responded by voting four thousand men for the American service . They ser- vilely ...
الصفحة 7
... Americans , were vehemently uttered on the floor of the British house of commons . The opposition were numerically weak , but were strong in intellectual qualities . Barré had lost none of his fire since his noble defence of the Americans ...
... Americans , were vehemently uttered on the floor of the British house of commons . The opposition were numerically weak , but were strong in intellectual qualities . Barré had lost none of his fire since his noble defence of the Americans ...
الصفحة 8
... Americans , but dis- graceful to the English name . They declared that England was degrading herself by applying to petty German princes for succor against her own subjects , and that nothing would so effectually bai the way for ...
... Americans , but dis- graceful to the English name . They declared that England was degrading herself by applying to petty German princes for succor against her own subjects , and that nothing would so effectually bai the way for ...
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... Americans owed to their friends in captivity , he alluded to the noble personal qualities of General Howe and said , in allusion to his brother , who was killed near Ticonderoga : " The Americans , in general , esteem it as not the ...
... Americans owed to their friends in captivity , he alluded to the noble personal qualities of General Howe and said , in allusion to his brother , who was killed near Ticonderoga : " The Americans , in general , esteem it as not the ...
الصفحة 53
... Americans , when augmented by the arriving militia , would number a little more than seventeen thousand . Making these figures a basis , Washington predicated a question thereon , and submitted it to the council , in the following form ...
... Americans , when augmented by the arriving militia , would number a little more than seventeen thousand . Making these figures a basis , Washington predicated a question thereon , and submitted it to the council , in the following form ...
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afterward alarm American army appointed arms Arnold arrived artillery attack battery battle Boston brave brigade British army Burgoyne camp Canada cannon Carolina cause chief Colonel Colonel Reed colonies command commander-in-chief commenced committee Connecticut continental army continental Congress Cornwallis crossed declared defence Delaware despatch detachment encamped enemy England expedition fire fleet force Fort Edward Fort Washington French friends garrison Gates Governor Greene guard headquarters Hessians Highlands hill honor hope Hudson hundred immediately inhabitants James Clinton Jersey Lafayette land Lee's letter Lord loyalists ment miles military militia morning movements night North officers patriots Peekskill Pennsylvania Philadelphia president of Congress prisoners Putnam received regiments reinforcements republicans resolved retreat river Schuyler sent Sir Henry Clinton soldiers soon South Carolina spirit Staten Island Stirling strong Sullivan thousand Ticonderoga tion tories troops Tryon vessels victory Virginia Washington whole wounded wrote York York island
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الصفحة 206 - That it be recommended to the respective assemblies and conventions of the United Colonies where no government sufficient to the exigencies of their affairs, has been hitherto established, to adopt such government as shall in the opinion of the representatives of the people, best conduce to the happiness and safety of their constituents in particular, and America In general.
الصفحة 212 - He has refused, for a long time after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the State remaining, in the meantime, exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without and convulsions within.
الصفحة 14 - O ! ye that love mankind ! Ye that dare oppose not only the tyranny but the tyrant, stand forth ! Every spot of the old world is overrun with oppression. Freedom hath been hunted round the Globe. Asia and Africa have long expelled her. Europe regards her like a stranger, and England hath given her warning to depart. O ! receive the fugitive, and prepare in time an asylum for mankind.
الصفحة 182 - THE time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves ; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their houses and farms are to be pillaged and destroyed, and themselves consigned to a state of wretchedness, from which no human efforts will deliver them. The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army.
الصفحة 629 - If I were to be called upon to draw a picture of the times and of men, from what I have seen, heard, and in part know, I should in one word say that idleness, dissipation, and extravagance seem to have laid fast hold of most of them; that speculation, peculation, and an insatiable thirst for riches seem to have got the better of every other consideration, and almost every order of men...
الصفحة 207 - Britain, and it is necessary that the exercise of every kind of authority under the said Crown should be totally suppressed, and all the powers of government exerted under the authority of the people of the Colonies...
الصفحة 680 - No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode (There they alike in trembling hope repose), The bosom of his Father and his God.
الصفحة 557 - Sir ; A letter, which I received last night, contained the following paragraph; " In a letter from General Conway to General Gates he says, ' Heaven has been determined to save your country, or a weak General and bad counsellors would have ruined it.
الصفحة 53 - I know the unhappy predicament in which I stand ; I know that much is expected of me; I know, that, without men, without arms, without ammunition, without any thing fit for the accommodation of a soldier, little is to be done ; and, what is mortifying, I know that I cannot stand justified to the world without exposing my own weakness, and injuring the cause, by declaring my wants, which I am determined not to do, farther than unavoidable necessity brings every man acquainted with them.
الصفحة 555 - My own difficulties, in the course of the campaign, have been not a little increased by the extra aid of Continental troops, which the gloomy prospect of our affairs in the North immediately after the reduction of Ticonderoga, induced me to spare from this army. But it is to be hoped that all will yet end well. IF THE CAUSE IS ADVANCED, INDIFFERENT IS IT TO ME WHERE OR IN WHAT QUARTER IT HAPPENS.