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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... camp residence of four months with his father in the tented field - on the frontiers of his country during the last war , he has had a much better opportunity of knowing something of the hardships , privations and sufferings of an ...
... camp residence of four months with his father in the tented field - on the frontiers of his country during the last war , he has had a much better opportunity of knowing something of the hardships , privations and sufferings of an ...
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... camp , without having first procured the protection of an American flag to secure her person from insults and injuries that might have been offered to , or inflicted upon her person in her passage thither by the lawless sons of Belial ...
... camp , without having first procured the protection of an American flag to secure her person from insults and injuries that might have been offered to , or inflicted upon her person in her passage thither by the lawless sons of Belial ...
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... camp of that country . Who followed next in the patriotic wake of father , mother and brothers ? Who ? Our now aged veteran father Capt . Samuel Dewees . Capt . Dewees , then a boy , a stripling , but like to a David of old , a ...
... camp of that country . Who followed next in the patriotic wake of father , mother and brothers ? Who ? Our now aged veteran father Capt . Samuel Dewees . Capt . Dewees , then a boy , a stripling , but like to a David of old , a ...
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... camp of his mourning companions in arms , and overwhelmed an aged father with sadness and grief insupportable when he first learn- ed his irreparable loss , by the announcement to him of the death of that son . " What's hallowed ground ...
... camp of his mourning companions in arms , and overwhelmed an aged father with sadness and grief insupportable when he first learn- ed his irreparable loss , by the announcement to him of the death of that son . " What's hallowed ground ...
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... camp in order to join in besieging Boston . The bat- tles of Lexington and Concord had the effect to arouse the spirit of the people to avenge the death of their un- offending and slaughtered brethren . Troops in a scat- tering manner ...
... camp in order to join in besieging Boston . The bat- tles of Lexington and Concord had the effect to arouse the spirit of the people to avenge the death of their un- offending and slaughtered brethren . Troops in a scat- tering manner ...
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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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