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, 第 1 巻J. Crissy, 1836 |
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... directed " that all officers commis- sioned by the King , or by his General in North America , should take rank of all officers commissioned by the Governors of the respective pro- vinces : and farther , that the general and field ...
... directed " that all officers commis- sioned by the King , or by his General in North America , should take rank of all officers commissioned by the Governors of the respective pro- vinces : and farther , that the general and field ...
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... directed two battalions of marines to be recruited . Though congress deferred granting general letters of reprisal , they adopted a measure of equal efficacy , but less hostile in appearance . Their ships of war were authorized to ...
... directed two battalions of marines to be recruited . Though congress deferred granting general letters of reprisal , they adopted a measure of equal efficacy , but less hostile in appearance . Their ships of war were authorized to ...
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... directed towards Boston ; and , congress having manifested a disposition favourable to an attack on that place , the general officers had been again assembled , and had again ad- vised unanimously against the measure . Supposing that ...
... directed towards Boston ; and , congress having manifested a disposition favourable to an attack on that place , the general officers had been again assembled , and had again ad- vised unanimously against the measure . Supposing that ...
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... directing its course eastward . The recovery of this important town gave great joy to the United Colonies . Congress ... directed a medal of gold to be struck in commemora- tion of the event . As soon as the British fleet had put to sea ...
... directing its course eastward . The recovery of this important town gave great joy to the United Colonies . Congress ... directed a medal of gold to be struck in commemora- tion of the event . As soon as the British fleet had put to sea ...
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... directed to make particular inquiries into the conduct of Prescot ; and congress , on being informed of the inefficacy of the application to General Howe , ordered that officer into close jail . * In the early part of the war , congress ...
... directed to make particular inquiries into the conduct of Prescot ; and congress , on being informed of the inefficacy of the application to General Howe , ordered that officer into close jail . * In the early part of the war , congress ...
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action American army appeared arms Arnold arrival artillery attack attempt body brigade British army Burgoyne camp campaign Captain cavalry circumstances Colonel Washington colonies command Commander-in-chief commenced conduct congress considerable continental troops corps Count D'Estaing creek crossed defence Delaware detachment determined directed division encamped enemy engaged enterprise evacuation execution exertions expedition favour fire flank fleet force fort Mifflin French front garrison Governor ground honour hope hundred immediately Indians infantry intelligence Island Jersey killed Lafayette land letter Lieutenant Colonel Lord Cornwallis loss Marquis de Lafayette measures ment miles military militia morning night North Carolina North River numbers object officers opinion orders party passed Peekskill Pennsylvania Philadelphia possession prisoners provisions rear received regiment reinforcements rendered resolution retreat river road Sir Henry Clinton situation soldiers soon Sullivan taken thousand tion town United Virginia whole wounded York York Island
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16 ページ - 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.
20 ページ - 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.
12 ページ - 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.
14 ページ - 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...
16 ページ - 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...
20 ページ - 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...
12 ページ - 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...
427 ページ - ... 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...
15 ページ - 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...
79 ページ - 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...