The life of George Washington, 第 2 巻、第 272 巻1804 |
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... Island . Battle of Brooklyn . Evacuation of Long Island . Fruitless negotiations . New York evacuated . - - 409 CHAPTER VIII . Skirmish on the Heights of Haerlem . The enemy land at Frog's Neck . The American army evacuates York Island ...
... Island . Battle of Brooklyn . Evacuation of Long Island . Fruitless negotiations . New York evacuated . - - 409 CHAPTER VIII . Skirmish on the Heights of Haerlem . The enemy land at Frog's Neck . The American army evacuates York Island ...
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... Islands there are several companies and a fort with six guns . The Black Islands are about a hundred and thirty leagues above the mouth of the Ohio , which is about three hundred and fifty above New Orleans . They also acquainted me ...
... Islands there are several companies and a fort with six guns . The Black Islands are about a hundred and thirty leagues above the mouth of the Ohio , which is about three hundred and fifty above New Orleans . They also acquainted me ...
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... island . Four houses compose the sides ; the bastions are made of piles driven into the ground , standing more than twelve feet above it , and sharp at top , with port - holes cut for cannon , and loop - holes for the small arms to fire ...
... island . Four houses compose the sides ; the bastions are made of piles driven into the ground , standing more than twelve feet above it , and sharp at top , with port - holes cut for cannon , and loop - holes for the small arms to fire ...
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... island , to quit our raft and make to it . The cold was so extremely severe , that Mr. Gist had all his fingers and some of his toes frozen ; and the water was shut up so hard , that we found no difficulty in getting off the island on ...
... island , to quit our raft and make to it . The cold was so extremely severe , that Mr. Gist had all his fingers and some of his toes frozen ; and the water was shut up so hard , that we found no difficulty in getting off the island on ...
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... Island , Connecticut , New York , New Jersey , Pennsylvania , the three lower counties on the Delaware , Maryland , and South Carolina , assembled at New York ; and Timothy Ruggles , Esq . of Massachussetts , having been chosen their ...
... Island , Connecticut , New York , New Jersey , Pennsylvania , the three lower counties on the Delaware , Maryland , and South Carolina , assembled at New York ; and Timothy Ruggles , Esq . of Massachussetts , having been chosen their ...
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186 ページ - British parliament, they are entitled to a free and exclusive power of legislation in their several provincial legislatures, where their right of representation can alone be preserved, in all cases of taxation and internal polity, subject only to the negative of their sovereign, in such manner as has been heretofore used and accustomed...
240 ページ - With hearts fortified with these animating reflections, we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare, that, exerting the utmost energy of those powers which our beneficent Creator hath graciously bestowed upon us, the arms we have been compelled by our enemies to assume, we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverance, employ for the preservation of our liberties ; being with one mind resolved to die freemen rather than to live slaves.
186 ページ - 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, without their consent.
252 ページ - And you are to observe and follow such Orders and Directions from Time to Time, as you shall receive from this or a future Congress of the United States or Committee of Congress for that Purpose appointed or Commander in Chief for the time being of the Army of the United States or any other your superior Officer according to the Rules and Discipline of War...
39 ページ - The supplicating tears of the women and moving petitions of the men melt me into such deadly sorrow that I solemnly declare, if I know my own mind, I could offer myself a willing sacrifice to the butchering enemy, provided that would contribute to the people's ease.
402 ページ - That it be recommended to the respective assemblies and conventions of the United Colonies where no government sufficient to the exigencies of their affairs, has been hitherto established, to adopt such government as shall in the opinion of the representatives of the people, best conduce to the happiness and safety of their constituents in particular, and America in general.
98 ページ - America,' &c. by imposing taxes on the inhabitants of these colonies; and the said act, and several other acts, by extending the jurisdiction of the courts of admiralty beyond its ancient limits, have a manifest tendency to subvert the rights and liberties of the colonists.
132 ページ - Britain; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.
20 ページ - The cold was so extremely severe that Mr. Gist had all his fingers and some of his toes frozen, and the water was shut up so hard that we found no difficulty in getting off the island on the ice in the morning and went to Mr. Frazier's.
186 ページ - That by such emigration they by no means forfeited, surrendered, or lost any of those rights, but that they were, and their descendants now are, entitled to the exercise and enjoyment of all such of them, as their local and other circumstances enable them to exercise and enjoy.