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, المجلد 1J. Crissy, 1832 |
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الصفحة 94
... cavalry . That miscalculating economy which refuses the means essential to the end , was not sufficiently relaxed to admit of so expensive an establishment . Had the General been furnished with a few troops of light - horse , to serve ...
... cavalry . That miscalculating economy which refuses the means essential to the end , was not sufficiently relaxed to admit of so expensive an establishment . Had the General been furnished with a few troops of light - horse , to serve ...
الصفحة 111
... cavalry from Ireland ; some of whom had been captured on their passage . Both armies now moved towards the White Plains , a strong piece of ground already occupied by a detachment of militia . The main body of the American troops formed ...
... cavalry from Ireland ; some of whom had been captured on their passage . Both armies now moved towards the White Plains , a strong piece of ground already occupied by a detachment of militia . The main body of the American troops formed ...
الصفحة 121
... cavalry than a small corps of badly mounted Connec- ticut militia , commanded by Major Shelden ; and was almost equally destitute of artillery . Its numbers , at no time during the retreat , ex- ceeded four thousand men , and on ...
... cavalry than a small corps of badly mounted Connec- ticut militia , commanded by Major Shelden ; and was almost equally destitute of artillery . Its numbers , at no time during the retreat , ex- ceeded four thousand men , and on ...
الصفحة 124
... cavalry to watch his movements , who immediately formed and executed the design of seizing him . Early in the morning of the 12th of Decem- ber , this officer reached Lee's quarters , who received no intimation of his danger until the ...
... cavalry to watch his movements , who immediately formed and executed the design of seizing him . Early in the morning of the 12th of Decem- ber , this officer reached Lee's quarters , who received no intimation of his danger until the ...
الصفحة 126
... cavalry , of ar- tillery , and of engineers . His ideas on these important subjects had been already stated to congress , and were now reurged . With respect to the additional expense to be incurred by the measures recommended , he ...
... cavalry , of ar- tillery , and of engineers . His ideas on these important subjects had been already stated to congress , and were now reurged . With respect to the additional expense to be incurred by the measures recommended , he ...
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الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.