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, Volym 1J. Crissy, 1832 |
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... fleet engaged in that enterprise , had named his seat Mount Vernon . To this delightful spot Colonel Washington withdrew , resolving to devote his future attention to the avocations of private life . This resolution was not long ...
... fleet engaged in that enterprise , had named his seat Mount Vernon . To this delightful spot Colonel Washington withdrew , resolving to devote his future attention to the avocations of private life . This resolution was not long ...
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... fleet into the Hudson , and to occupy both New York and Albany . Under the alarm thus ex- cited , an effort was made in Congress to obtain a resolution for seizing the governor . He had , however , been artful enough to make impres ...
... fleet into the Hudson , and to occupy both New York and Albany . Under the alarm thus ex- cited , an effort was made in Congress to obtain a resolution for seizing the governor . He had , however , been artful enough to make impres ...
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... fleet sailed out of Nantasket road , directing its course eastward . The recovery of this important town gave great joy to the United Colonies . Congress passed a vote of thanks to the General and his army , " for their wise and ...
... fleet sailed out of Nantasket road , directing its course eastward . The recovery of this important town gave great joy to the United Colonies . Congress passed a vote of thanks to the General and his army , " for their wise and ...
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... fleet . - Enters lake Champlain . - Defeats the American flotilla . - Takes possession of Crown Point . - Retires into winter quarters . DURING these transactions , events of great interest were passing still further north . Serious ...
... fleet . - Enters lake Champlain . - Defeats the American flotilla . - Takes possession of Crown Point . - Retires into winter quarters . DURING these transactions , events of great interest were passing still further north . Serious ...
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... fleet soon afterwards surrendered , and the General prepared , with the utmost expedition , to proceed with the few troops who were willing to follow him , to the capital of Canada . Diminished as his army was by the discharge of those ...
... fleet soon afterwards surrendered , and the General prepared , with the utmost expedition , to proceed with the few troops who were willing to follow him , to the capital of Canada . Diminished as his army was by the discharge of those ...
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The Life of George Washington: Commander in Chief of the American ..., Volym 1 John Marshall Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1846 |
The Life of George Washington: Commander in Chief of the American ..., Volym 1 Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1834 |
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Sida 8 - 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...
Sida 9 - He has constrained our fellow-citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
Sida 417 - No State shall lay any imposts or duties, which may interfere with any stipulations in treaties, entered into by the United States in Congress assembled, with any king, prince or state, in pursuance of any treaties already proposed by Congress, to the courts of France and Spain.
Sida 7 - 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...
Sida 6 - 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.
Sida 417 - ... 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...
Sida 10 - Nor have we been wanting in attention to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here.
Sida 71 - 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...
Sida 230 - Neither of the two parties shall conclude either truce or peace with Great Britain without the formal consent of the other first obtained; and they mutually engage not to lay down their arms until the independence of the United States shall have been formally or tacitly assured by the treaty or treaties that shall terminate the war.
Sida 14 - I call upon the honour 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.