The Story of the Revolution, Volum 1Charles Scribner's Sons, 1898 |
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action advance American army American Revolution arms Arnold artillery attack battle bayonets beaten began Bennington Boston brave Breed's Hill bridge British army British troops Bunker Hill Burgoyne campaign cannon Carolina cause Charles Willson Peale Charlestown Clinton Colonel colonies command Concord Congress Declaration defeat desperate enemy England English Europe face fact fight fire fleet force fought Franklin Gates gave George guns Hessians Horatio Gates Hudson hundred independence Indians ington intrenchments Jefferson John Adams John Trumbull killed and wounded King knew land Lexington Long Island looked Lord Percy Lord William Campbell loyalists main army marched Massachusetts meant ment military militia Moultrie movement North numbers officers painting Philadelphia position Prescott Princeton redoubt regiments retreat river Samuel Adams Saratoga Schuyler sent siege siege of Boston Skenesboro soldiers South Stark Sullivan surrender Ticonderoga tion took town Trenton Valley Forge victory Virginia Washington winter York
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Side 207 - ... service of the militia who come in, you cannot tell how, go, you cannot tell when, and act, you cannot tell where, consume your provisions, exhaust your stores, and leave you at last at a critical moment?
Side 312 - I can assure those gentlemen, that it is a much easier and less distressing thing to draw remonstrances in a comfortable room by a good fireside, than to occupy a cold, bleak hill, and sleep under frost and snow, without clothes or blankets.
Side 21 - When your lordships look at the papers transmitted us from America, when you consider their decency, firmness, and wisdom, you cannot but respect their cause, and wish to make it your own. For myself, I must declare and avow, that in all my reading and observation — and it has been my...
Side 207 - Fortunately, Congress, prior to their adjournment, had resolved that " until they should otherwise order, General Washington should be possessed of all power to order and direct all things relative to the department and to the operations of war.
Side 304 - Resolved, That every officer who holds or shall hereafter hold a commission or office from Congress shall take and subscribe the following oath or affirmation : I do acknowledge the United States of America to be free, independent and sovereign States, and declare that the people thereof owe no allegiance or obedience to George the third, King of Great Britain...
Side 32 - Revere was rowing over the river farther down to Charlestown, having agreed with his friend Robert Newman to show lanterns from the belfry; of the Old North Church — " One, if by land, and two, if by sea " — as a signal of the march of the British.
Side 21 - ... has been my favorite study— I have read Thucydides and have studied and admired the master states of the world— that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the general congress at Philadelphia.
Side 28 - For they speak not peace : but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land. 21 Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.
Side 41 - ... another account is come of the mob having risen* at New York, between anger and triumph, and have seized, unloaded, and destroyed the cargoes of two ships that were going with supplies to Gage ; and, by all accounts, that whole continent is in a flame. So here is this fatal war commenced ! The child that is unborn shall rue The hunting of that day ! We are perfectly easy about Spain's armada, and say, that too is bound for Lisbon.
Side 18 - The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders, are no more. I am not a Virginian, but an American.