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, Volum 1J. Crissy, 1836 |
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... fort Du Quesne.- Defeat of Major Grant . - Fort Du Quesne evacuated by the French , and taken possession of by the English . - Resignation of Colonel Washington . - His mar- riage . 1732 . GEORGE WASHINGTON , the third son of Augustine ...
... fort Du Quesne.- Defeat of Major Grant . - Fort Du Quesne evacuated by the French , and taken possession of by the English . - Resignation of Colonel Washington . - His mar- riage . 1732 . GEORGE WASHINGTON , the third son of Augustine ...
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... fort on the south - eastern branch of the Ohio , were themselves engaged in completing a fortification at the confluence of the Alleghany and Monongahela rivers : a detachment from which place was then on its march towards his camp ...
... fort on the south - eastern branch of the Ohio , were themselves engaged in completing a fortification at the confluence of the Alleghany and Monongahela rivers : a detachment from which place was then on its march towards his camp ...
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... fort at the Great Meadows , now termed fort Necessity where the two roads united , and where the face of the country was such as not to permit an enemy to pass unperceived . At that place , it was intended to remain , until ...
... fort at the Great Meadows , now termed fort Necessity where the two roads united , and where the face of the country was such as not to permit an enemy to pass unperceived . At that place , it was intended to remain , until ...
Side 6
... fort Du Quesne , or to build one in its vicinity . The little army in Virginia , which was placed under the com- August . mand of Colonel Innes , from North Carolina , did not , as * See note , No. II , at the end of the volume . + To ...
... fort Du Quesne , or to build one in its vicinity . The little army in Virginia , which was placed under the com- August . mand of Colonel Innes , from North Carolina , did not , as * See note , No. II , at the end of the volume . + To ...
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... fort Du Quesne . In support of this advice , he stated that the French were then weak on the Ohio , but hourly expected reinforcements . During the excessive drought which prevailed at that time , these could not arrive ; because the ...
... fort Du Quesne . In support of this advice , he stated that the French were then weak on the Ohio , but hourly expected reinforcements . During the excessive drought which prevailed at that time , these could not arrive ; because the ...
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Side 16 - A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Side 20 - I call upon the honor 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.
Side 12 - 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.
Side 14 - 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...
Side 16 - Britain: that in constituting indeed our several forms of government, we had adopted one common king, thereby laying a foundation for perpetual league and amity with them : but that submission to their parliament was no part of our constitution, nor ever in idea, if history may be credited...
Side 20 - That God and nature have put into our hands !" What ideas of God and nature that noble Lord may entertain, I know not; but I know that such detestable principles are equally abhorrent to religion and humanity. What! to attribute the sacred sanction of God and nature...
Side 12 - 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...
Side 427 - ... 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...
Side 15 - And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he also obtruded them: thus paying off former crimes committed against the LIBERTIES of one people with crimes which he urges them to commit against the LIVES of another...
Side 79 - 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...