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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Page 93
... Brandywine meeting- house before the battle of Brandywine took place . This event occurred on the 11th of September , 1777. Al- though General Washington and the Marquis , ( then Gen- eral ) de la Fayette and their brave troops were ...
... Brandywine meeting- house before the battle of Brandywine took place . This event occurred on the 11th of September , 1777. Al- though General Washington and the Marquis , ( then Gen- eral ) de la Fayette and their brave troops were ...
Page 97
... Brandywine meeting - house for the purpose of burying the dead ; this they continued to do , until a body of British light horse were beheld coming up at full gallop ; my father ordered his men to fly instantly to the woods , telling ...
... Brandywine meeting - house for the purpose of burying the dead ; this they continued to do , until a body of British light horse were beheld coming up at full gallop ; my father ordered his men to fly instantly to the woods , telling ...
Page 99
... Brandywine , and on the surface of its grassy meadows , and around the brows of the overlooking hill - tops , amid the wilds of the far - off hills and plains , did our fathers fight the battle of Brandywine , with good strong arms that ...
... Brandywine , and on the surface of its grassy meadows , and around the brows of the overlooking hill - tops , amid the wilds of the far - off hills and plains , did our fathers fight the battle of Brandywine , with good strong arms that ...
Page 101
... Brandywine was in a few days des- tined to be the chess - board on which George Wash- ington , with his starved continentals , on the one side , and General Howe , with his well dressed and well - fed seventeen thousand British and ...
... Brandywine was in a few days des- tined to be the chess - board on which George Wash- ington , with his starved continentals , on the one side , and General Howe , with his well dressed and well - fed seventeen thousand British and ...
Page 107
... Brandywine at Chadd's Ford , or at Brinton's , two miles above , and in this opinion he was supported by all his officers . Not an officer in the army appears to have entertained the idea that the British might possibly take a ...
... Brandywine at Chadd's Ford , or at Brinton's , two miles above , and in this opinion he was supported by all his officers . Not an officer in the army appears to have entertained the idea that the British might possibly take a ...
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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 |
A History of the Life and Services of Captain Samuel Dewees: A Native of ... John Smith Hanna No preview available - 2015 |
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