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Page 115
... learned of it . The closing of the courts , he wrote , " is very unfortunate for me . I was but just getting into my gears , just getting under sail , and an embargo is laid upon the ship . Thirty years of my life are passed in ...
... learned of it . The closing of the courts , he wrote , " is very unfortunate for me . I was but just getting into my gears , just getting under sail , and an embargo is laid upon the ship . Thirty years of my life are passed in ...
Page 267
... learned that that inflexible in- tegrity demanded that he , a loyal , competent and zealous subordinate , be the junior of three major - generals of whom the two senior were younger men who had never risen beyond the rank of colonel in ...
... learned that that inflexible in- tegrity demanded that he , a loyal , competent and zealous subordinate , be the junior of three major - generals of whom the two senior were younger men who had never risen beyond the rank of colonel in ...
Page 272
... learned by experience . He had not gone far when he learned that there were also French parties in the great woods . The Indians tracked down one party and discovered that it had taken shelter in a hollow for the night . The Half - King ...
... learned by experience . He had not gone far when he learned that there were also French parties in the great woods . The Indians tracked down one party and discovered that it had taken shelter in a hollow for the night . The Half - King ...
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