A History of the American Revolution: Comprehending All the Principal Events Both in the Field and in the Cabinet, Volum 1F. Betts, 1822 |
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Side x
... Retreat of General Sullivan from Cana- da ... Lee arrives at New York ... Pursues Clinton ... Affair of Moore's Creek Bridge ... Attack on Sullivan's Island ... Brave defence of Fort Moultrie ... Operations of Commodore Hop- kins ...
... Retreat of General Sullivan from Cana- da ... Lee arrives at New York ... Pursues Clinton ... Affair of Moore's Creek Bridge ... Attack on Sullivan's Island ... Brave defence of Fort Moultrie ... Operations of Commodore Hop- kins ...
Side xi
... Retreat to the White Plains ... Loss of Fort Washingtou ... Evacuation of Fort Lee ... Melancholy prospect of the Ame- ricans ... Reflections . CHAP . XVI - Interesting remarks on the state of the army ... De- feat of Arnold on the ...
... Retreat to the White Plains ... Loss of Fort Washingtou ... Evacuation of Fort Lee ... Melancholy prospect of the Ame- ricans ... Reflections . CHAP . XVI - Interesting remarks on the state of the army ... De- feat of Arnold on the ...
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... retreat to the Great Mea- dows . They had scarcely effected this , when Mon- sieur de Villier the French commandant , marched upon them with a force of nearly three times their number , and attacked their little Fort . Weak and ...
... retreat to the Great Mea- dows . They had scarcely effected this , when Mon- sieur de Villier the French commandant , marched upon them with a force of nearly three times their number , and attacked their little Fort . Weak and ...
Side 37
... retreat . All the artillery , ammu- nition and baggage , together with the private letters and instructions of the General , fell into the hands of the enemy . Colonel Washington recrossed the Monon- gahela with the remnant of his ...
... retreat . All the artillery , ammu- nition and baggage , together with the private letters and instructions of the General , fell into the hands of the enemy . Colonel Washington recrossed the Monon- gahela with the remnant of his ...
Side 39
... retreat to Albany . The en- terprise against Niagara , which was considered as the most important position occupied by the French , be- ing so situated as to command the communication be- tween lakes Erie and Ontario , was undertaken by ...
... retreat to Albany . The en- terprise against Niagara , which was considered as the most important position occupied by the French , be- ing so situated as to command the communication be- tween lakes Erie and Ontario , was undertaken by ...
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Side 252 - Mr. President — Though I am truly sensible of the high honor done me, in this appointment, yet I feel great distress, from a consciousness that my abilities and military experience may not be equal to the extensive and important trust.
Side 69 - LIBERTY to recoil within them: men promoted to the highest seats of justice, some who, to my knowledge, were glad, by going to a foreign country, to escape being brought to the bar of a Court of Justice in their own.
Side 89 - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
Side 211 - But, from the necessity of the case, and a regard to the mutual interest of both countries, we cheerfully consent to the operation of such acts of the British parliament, as are bona fide, restrained to the regulation of our external commerce, for the purpose of securing the commercial advantages of the whole empire to the mother country, and the commercial benefits of its respective members ; excluding every idea of taxation internal or external, for raising a revenue on the subjects in America,...
Side 252 - I beg leave to assure the Congress, that, as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment, at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it. I will keep an exact account of my expenses. Those, I doubt not, they will discharge; and that is all I desire.
Side 209 - An Act for the impartial administration of justice, in the cases of persons questioned for any act done by them in the execution of the law, or for the suppression of riots and tumults, in the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, in New England...
Side 348 - He has excited Domestic Insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
Side 211 - That the respective colonies are entitled to the common law of England, and more especially to the great and inestimable privilege of being tried by their peers of the vicinage, according to the course of that law.
Side 72 - Resolved, That the taxation of the people by themselves, or by persons chosen by themselves to represent them, who can only know what taxes the people are able to bear, and the easiest mode of raising them, and are equally affected by such taxes themselves, is the distinguishing characteristic of British freedom, and without which the ancient constitution cannot subsist.
Side 208 - An Act to discontinue, in such manner, and for such time, as are therein mentioned, the landing and discharging, lading or shipping of Goods, Wares, and Merchandise, at the Town, and within the Harbour of Boston, in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, in North America...