A History of the Life and Services of Captain Samuel Dewees: A Native of Pennsylvania, and Soldier of the Revolutionary and Last Wars. Also, Reminiscences of the Revolutionary Struggle...and Late War with Great Britain. In All of which He was Patriotically Engaged |
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... , -yen eagle eyed . Samuel Dewees . CAPT SAM DEWEES . Lith of Ed Weber & Cy Baltira Baltimore : PRINTED BY ROBERT NEILSON , No. 6 , South Charles street . 1844 . iv PREFACE . action between those that plan and order. A HISTORY ...
... , -yen eagle eyed . Samuel Dewees . CAPT SAM DEWEES . Lith of Ed Weber & Cy Baltira Baltimore : PRINTED BY ROBERT NEILSON , No. 6 , South Charles street . 1844 . iv PREFACE . action between those that plan and order. A HISTORY ...
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... Baltimore , and many others that were subordinates and privates in the armies of his country . It is true that where officers brave and meritorious have led , soldiers have followed into the most imminent danger and to death ; but as ...
... Baltimore , and many others that were subordinates and privates in the armies of his country . It is true that where officers brave and meritorious have led , soldiers have followed into the most imminent danger and to death ; but as ...
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... Baltimore in Maryland , Trenton , Princeton , Mor ristown , Somerset Court House and Elizabethtown Point in Jersey , and at Ticonderoga , Crown Point , West Point , White Plains , Fishkill , Long Island , Saratoga , Fort Schuyler , and ...
... Baltimore in Maryland , Trenton , Princeton , Mor ristown , Somerset Court House and Elizabethtown Point in Jersey , and at Ticonderoga , Crown Point , West Point , White Plains , Fishkill , Long Island , Saratoga , Fort Schuyler , and ...
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... Baltimore , one under Captain Hively , one under Captain Kerlinger , and one under Captain Showers . What ? Captain Dewees a soldier of the last war ? Yes ! At the time of the invasion of the Chesapeake bay , by the British squadron ...
... Baltimore , one under Captain Hively , one under Captain Kerlinger , and one under Captain Showers . What ? Captain Dewees a soldier of the last war ? Yes ! At the time of the invasion of the Chesapeake bay , by the British squadron ...
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... Baltimore in Sept. 1814 , to pro- tect their country's rights from the powers of a ruthless foe , and to shield their country's eagle , stars and stripes from an ungodly desecration . Here we behold the soldier merging from boyhood to ...
... Baltimore in Sept. 1814 , to pro- tect their country's rights from the powers of a ruthless foe , and to shield their country's eagle , stars and stripes from an ungodly desecration . Here we behold the soldier merging from boyhood to ...
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A History of the Life and Services of Captain Samuel Dewees, a Native of ... John Smith Hanna No preview available - 2017 |
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