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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... British myrmidons should trample upon and over their already borne down necks ? Did they cringingly sub- mit to these wanton abuses so profusely heaped upon them ? No ! God be thanked , they arose FREEMEN in their might , they flung the ...
... British myrmidons should trample upon and over their already borne down necks ? Did they cringingly sub- mit to these wanton abuses so profusely heaped upon them ? No ! God be thanked , they arose FREEMEN in their might , they flung the ...
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... British camp , she demanded a permit of the British officers to visit a loathsome prison- ship - a high road of and to speedy death . Demanded a permit to visit the pestilential prisonship , in which laid bleeding and suffering the ...
... British camp , she demanded a permit of the British officers to visit a loathsome prison- ship - a high road of and to speedy death . Demanded a permit to visit the pestilential prisonship , in which laid bleeding and suffering the ...
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... British squadron , he was on his way to the State of Ohio . The news reached him when at Bloody Run , below Bedford , and he immediately turned him about and hastened him to Baltimore , where he stood one of the defenders of the city ...
... British squadron , he was on his way to the State of Ohio . The news reached him when at Bloody Run , below Bedford , and he immediately turned him about and hastened him to Baltimore , where he stood one of the defenders of the city ...
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... British at Baltimore . After peace was proclaimed that son met as one the emergency which arose in our country , the Indian war in Florida , he joined the standing army and marched to protect the frontier settlements of his country and ...
... British at Baltimore . After peace was proclaimed that son met as one the emergency which arose in our country , the Indian war in Florida , he joined the standing army and marched to protect the frontier settlements of his country and ...
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... British forces after the continental militia gave way , ( the militia costituting a small body compared with " 800 grenadiers and infantry " whom they opposed ) pursued their design , and moved on to Concord for the purpose of ...
... British forces after the continental militia gave way , ( the militia costituting a small body compared with " 800 grenadiers and infantry " whom they opposed ) pursued their design , and moved on to Concord for the purpose of ...
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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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