A History of the American Revolution: Comprehending All the Principal Events Both in the Field and in the Cabinet, Volume 1F. Betts, 1822 - United States |
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... officers , appointed by the King , sensible of the precarious ten- ure by which their authority was held , were more anx- ious to conciliate the royal favour , than the confidence of the people . They laboured hard , therefore , to ...
... officers , appointed by the King , sensible of the precarious ten- ure by which their authority was held , were more anx- ious to conciliate the royal favour , than the confidence of the people . They laboured hard , therefore , to ...
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... officers , who unanimously advised a retreat to the Great Mea- dows . They had scarcely effected this , when Mon- sieur de Villier the French commandant , marched upon them with a force of nearly three times their number , and attacked ...
... officers , who unanimously advised a retreat to the Great Mea- dows . They had scarcely effected this , when Mon- sieur de Villier the French commandant , marched upon them with a force of nearly three times their number , and attacked ...
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... officers , all of whom were willing and competent to give him much useful advice and infor- mation , respecting the mode of conducting warfare in American woods and morasses . He accepted the of fered services of Colonel Washington , as ...
... officers , all of whom were willing and competent to give him much useful advice and infor- mation , respecting the mode of conducting warfare in American woods and morasses . He accepted the of fered services of Colonel Washington , as ...
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... officers were falling all around him , for the Indi- ans and French seemed to aim their pieces particu- larly at those on horseback , his aids had all been kill- ed except Washington , and he himself had three horses shot under him ...
... officers were falling all around him , for the Indi- ans and French seemed to aim their pieces particu- larly at those on horseback , his aids had all been kill- ed except Washington , and he himself had three horses shot under him ...
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... officer was not long in deter- mining to seek an engagement . He saw that the fate of the city depended upon the issue of ... officers , he continued to be more con- cerned for the issue of the battle than for his own fate , inquiring at ...
... officer was not long in deter- mining to seek an engagement . He saw that the fate of the city depended upon the issue of ... officers , he continued to be more con- cerned for the issue of the battle than for his own fate , inquiring at ...
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Page 252 - Mr. President — Though I am truly sensible of the high honor done me, in this appointment, yet I feel great distress, from a consciousness that my abilities and military experience may not be equal to the extensive and important trust.
Page 69 - LIBERTY to recoil within them: men promoted to the highest seats of justice, some who, to my knowledge, were glad, by going to a foreign country, to escape being brought to the bar of a Court of Justice in their own.
Page 89 - 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.
Page 211 - But, from the necessity of the case, and a regard to the mutual interest of both 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,...
Page 252 - 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. I will keep an exact account of my expenses. Those, I doubt not, they will discharge; and that is all I desire.
Page 209 - An Act for the impartial administration of justice, in the cases of persons questioned for any act done by them in the execution of the law, or for the suppression of riots and tumults, in the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, in New England...
Page 348 - He has excited Domestic Insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
Page 211 - That the respective colonies are entitled to the common law of England, and more especially to the great and inestimable privilege of being tried by their peers of the vicinage, according to the course of that law.
Page 72 - Resolved, That the taxation of the people by themselves, or by persons chosen by themselves to represent them, who can only know what taxes the people are able to bear, and the easiest mode of raising them, and are equally affected by such taxes themselves, is the distinguishing characteristic of British freedom, and without which the ancient constitution cannot subsist.
Page 208 - An Act to discontinue, in such manner, and for such time, as are therein mentioned, the landing and discharging, lading or shipping of Goods, Wares, and Merchandise, at the Town, and within the Harbour of Boston, in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, in North America...