The United States of America: Their History from the Earliest Period; Their Industry, Commerce, Banking Transactions, and National Works; Their Institutions and Character, Political, Social, and Literary: with a Survey of the Territory, and Remarks on the Prospects and Plans of Emigrants, Volume 2Oliver & Boyd, 1844 - United States |
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... employed in removing the artillery and stores . On the 15th September , Clinton landed at Kipp's Bay , a position strongly fortified , and defended by eight regiments ; but , dispirited by late disasters , they fled without attempting ...
... employed in removing the artillery and stores . On the 15th September , Clinton landed at Kipp's Bay , a position strongly fortified , and defended by eight regiments ; but , dispirited by late disasters , they fled without attempting ...
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... employed in strength- ening . To the cautious view of the British commander this post appeared so formidable that he determined to change the seat of war to New Jersey , a less defensible territory , whither his antagonist would be ...
... employed in strength- ening . To the cautious view of the British commander this post appeared so formidable that he determined to change the seat of war to New Jersey , a less defensible territory , whither his antagonist would be ...
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... employed by the English in making a few expeditions for the destruc- tion of stores , generally successful , though ... employing those powers for raising and organizing troops which the exigency of affairs had at length extorted from ...
... employed by the English in making a few expeditions for the destruc- tion of stores , generally successful , though ... employing those powers for raising and organizing troops which the exigency of affairs had at length extorted from ...
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... employed in reducing a chain of forts and batteries , which the Americans had erected on the Lower Delaware , interrupting the direct com- munication with the sea , where Admiral Lord Howe , after landing the troops at the head of the ...
... employed in reducing a chain of forts and batteries , which the Americans had erected on the Lower Delaware , interrupting the direct com- munication with the sea , where Admiral Lord Howe , after landing the troops at the head of the ...
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... these could be furnished from home , he urged the employ- Adolphus , vol . ii . pp . 515 , 516. Sparks , vol . i . p . 261-264 . ment of an auxiliary corps of Russians ; but was 34 FROM THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.
... these could be furnished from home , he urged the employ- Adolphus , vol . ii . pp . 515 , 516. Sparks , vol . i . p . 261-264 . ment of an auxiliary corps of Russians ; but was 34 FROM THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.
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Page 141 - I will be very frank with you. I was the last to conform to the separation: but the separation having been made, and having become inevitable, I have always said as I say now, that I would be the first to meet the friendship of the United States as an independent power.
Page 112 - ... awake, attend to your situation, and redress yourselves! If the present moment be lost, every future effort is in vain; and your threats then will be as empty as your entreaties now.
Page 112 - Can you then consent to be the only sufferers by this Revolution and, retiring from the field, grow old in poverty, wretchedness and contempt? Can you consent to wade through the vile mire of dependency and owe the miserable remnant of that life to charity which has hitherto been spent in honor?
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Page 39 - I rejoice that the grave has not closed upon me; that I am still alive to lift up my voice against the dismemberment of this ancient and most noble monarchy!
Page 249 - The first line of separation would not last for a single generation ; new fragments would be torn off; new leaders would spring up ; and this great and glorious republic would soon be broken into a multitude of petty states...
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Page 247 - What has given us this just pride? What else is it, but the unrestrained and free operation of that same Federal Constitution, which it has been proposed now to hamper, and manacle, and nullify? Who is there among us, that, should he find himself on any spot of the earth where human beings exist, and where the existence of other nations is known, would not be proud to say, I am an American? I am a countryman of Washington? I am...