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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... battle - fields of their country . Who followed next in the stately steppings of bold and magnanimous patriotism ... battles to the Lord God 14 INTRODUCTORY ADDRESS .
... battle - fields of their country . Who followed next in the stately steppings of bold and magnanimous patriotism ... battles to the Lord God 14 INTRODUCTORY ADDRESS .
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... battles to the Lord God of Hosts , took her life in her hands and went forth and threw her- self into - into what ? Into a British camp , without having first procured the protection of an American flag to secure her person from insults ...
... battles to the Lord God of Hosts , took her life in her hands and went forth and threw her- self into - into what ? Into a British camp , without having first procured the protection of an American flag to secure her person from insults ...
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... battle - field of their country - upon so high and impreg- nable an ALTAR and rampart of LIBERTY - upon such high and holy ground as this . Glad , yes , extreme- ly so would I have been to have witnessed such inter- views and at such a ...
... battle - field of their country - upon so high and impreg- nable an ALTAR and rampart of LIBERTY - upon such high and holy ground as this . Glad , yes , extreme- ly so would I have been to have witnessed such inter- views and at such a ...
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... battle's din -- the heart piercing shrieks of wounded and dying — the ocean of tears and high wrought anguish of survivors , and the petrifying horrors of a bloody and a desolating war , on her return with JEHOVAH'S blessing in her ...
... battle's din -- the heart piercing shrieks of wounded and dying — the ocean of tears and high wrought anguish of survivors , and the petrifying horrors of a bloody and a desolating war , on her return with JEHOVAH'S blessing in her ...
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... battle - field's bloody car- nage nor yet the wounds received in battle could shake ; was not cruel in his disposition , but upon the contrary very tender hearted , especially , when that heart's full flow of humanity was taxed with the ...
... battle - field's bloody car- nage nor yet the wounds received in battle could shake ; was not cruel in his disposition , but upon the contrary very tender hearted , especially , when that heart's full flow of humanity was taxed with the ...
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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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