History of the American Revolution: With a Preliminary View of the Character and Principles of the Colonists, and Their Controversies with Great BritainCushing & sons, 1834 - 372페이지 |
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... Retreat of Americans - Evacuation of New York - Skirmishing - Further retreat - Measures of Congress - Conferences on Conciliation , fail - Battle of White Plains - Fort Washington falls - Retreat through New Jersey - Rhode Island falls ...
... Retreat of Americans - Evacuation of New York - Skirmishing - Further retreat - Measures of Congress - Conferences on Conciliation , fail - Battle of White Plains - Fort Washington falls - Retreat through New Jersey - Rhode Island falls ...
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... Retreat to Fort Edward - Revival of Public Spirit - British invest Fort Schuyler - Defeat and Death of General Herkimer - Arnold advances British retire - Change of Prospects - Battle of Bennington - Murder of Miss McCrea - Burgoyne ...
... Retreat to Fort Edward - Revival of Public Spirit - British invest Fort Schuyler - Defeat and Death of General Herkimer - Arnold advances British retire - Change of Prospects - Battle of Bennington - Murder of Miss McCrea - Burgoyne ...
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... retreat from the stand , taken in favor of the British claims , was neither practi- cable , had they been so disposed , consistent with the tem- per of parliament and the state of parties - nor did it accord with their own feelings and ...
... retreat from the stand , taken in favor of the British claims , was neither practi- cable , had they been so disposed , consistent with the tem- per of parliament and the state of parties - nor did it accord with their own feelings and ...
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... retreat , found themselves attacked on every side , by straggling shooters , and parties of volunteers . Every wall , fence , house , and tree , contri- buted to shelter some exasperated New Englander ; and a perpetual fire was kept up ...
... retreat , found themselves attacked on every side , by straggling shooters , and parties of volunteers . Every wall , fence , house , and tree , contri- buted to shelter some exasperated New Englander ; and a perpetual fire was kept up ...
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... retreat of the main body , and then made their own retreat over Charlestown Neck , with inconsiderable loss , though exposed to the fire of the Glasgow man - of - war , and several floating batteries . The Americans entrenched ...
... retreat of the main body , and then made their own retreat over Charlestown Neck , with inconsiderable loss , though exposed to the fire of the Glasgow man - of - war , and several floating batteries . The Americans entrenched ...
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Admiral adopted advance afterwards American army appointed arms Arnold arrived artillery assembly attack battle Boston Britain British army brought Burgoyne camp campaign captured Charleston Colonel colonies colonists command Commander-in-chief commenced Commissioners common Congress Cornwallis court declaration defeat defence Delaware detachment determined duty effect enemy England expedition fleet Fort Edward France Franklin French garrison Governor Hessians hostile House House of Burgesses hundred Independence Island Jersey king land legislatures liberty Lord Lord North Lord Rawdon Massachusetts measures ment miles military militia minister ministry negotiations North officers parliament party peace Philadelphia prisoners province received refused reinforcements remonstrances resolutions retreat revenue Rhode Island Richard Henry Lee river royal Samuel Adams sent ships Sir Henry Clinton soon South Carolina Spain spirit stamp act succor taxes thousand tion took town treaty troops United vessels victory Virginia voted Washington whole wounded York
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150 페이지 - 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.
114 페이지 - I beg leave to assure the Congress that as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it.
146 페이지 - 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...
153 페이지 - You will think me transported with enthusiasm, but I am not. I am well aware of the toil, and blood, and treasure, that it will cost us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. Yet, through all the gloom, I can see the rays of ravishing light and glory.
73 페이지 - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
151 페이지 - They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind. Enemies in war, in Peace Friends.
73 페이지 - They submitted willingly to the government of the crown, and paid, in their courts, obedience to the acts of Parliament. Numerous as the people are in the several old provinces, they cost you nothing in forts, citadels, garrisons, or armies, to keep them in subjection. They were governed by this country at the expense only of a little pen, ink, and paper ; they were led by a thread.
59 페이지 - YOUR indulgence! — they grew by your neglect of them. As soon as you began to care about them, that care was. exercised in sending persons to rule them...
120 페이지 - That we do hereby declare ourselves a free and independent people, are and of right ought to be a sovereign and selfgoverning association under the control of no power other than that of our God and the General Government of the Congress to the maintenance of which independence we solemnly pledge to each other our mutual co-operation our lives our fortunes and our most sacred honor.
145 페이지 - 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.