The History of the Rise, Progress, and Establishment, of the Independence of the United States of America: Including an Account of the Late War ; and of the Thirteen Colonies, from Their Origin to that Period, Volum 2Author, 1788 |
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... regimental enfigns . This warlike impofition moft pro- bably prevented general Gage's attacking and carrying the poft , by the poffeffion of which he would have had it in his power to direct his march to any part of the country he ...
... regimental enfigns . This warlike impofition moft pro- bably prevented general Gage's attacking and carrying the poft , by the poffeffion of which he would have had it in his power to direct his march to any part of the country he ...
Side 27
... regiments were far from being full , or were much over - officered . Seve- ral of the Maffachufetts officers are miferable tools , and must be difcarded fooner or later . It is owing to their 12 . having been elected by the very ...
... regiments were far from being full , or were much over - officered . Seve- ral of the Maffachufetts officers are miferable tools , and must be difcarded fooner or later . It is owing to their 12 . having been elected by the very ...
Side 33
... regiment in America ; they appointed a committee to examine his papers , as alfo those of a lieutenant in the regulars . They , having been applied to , by a letter of May 16th , g from the Maffachusetts convention , for their explicit ...
... regiment in America ; they appointed a committee to examine his papers , as alfo those of a lieutenant in the regulars . They , having been applied to , by a letter of May 16th , g from the Maffachusetts convention , for their explicit ...
Side 36
... regiment , to which is to be im- puted his faying to the volunteers he lately commanded in Virginia , that a gun and a good fword or hanger was all the foldier wanted , without mentioning a word of the bayonet - it was all that the ...
... regiment , to which is to be im- puted his faying to the volunteers he lately commanded in Virginia , that a gun and a good fword or hanger was all the foldier wanted , without mentioning a word of the bayonet - it was all that the ...
Side 65
... . But fuch has been the pre- caution and guard exercised on every fide of Boston , that the regiment of light cavalry arrived there , has VOL . II . F not II . 12 . not fet foot beyond the garrifon AMERICAN 65 REVOLUTION .
... . But fuch has been the pre- caution and guard exercised on every fide of Boston , that the regiment of light cavalry arrived there , has VOL . II . F not II . 12 . not fet foot beyond the garrifon AMERICAN 65 REVOLUTION .
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