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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... death ; but as true it is , that , without bravery in men , officers would not , could not dare to rush single - handed and alone to the combat against thousands . True it is that brave and daring officers are necessary in any army to ...
... death ; but as true it is , that , without bravery in men , officers would not , could not dare to rush single - handed and alone to the combat against thousands . True it is that brave and daring officers are necessary in any army to ...
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... death of the great and good Washington it is hoped will not be looked upon as a fulsome intrusion . The remarks , extracts , & c . upon the character of Washington , and other extracts - reminiscences of the past as contained in the ...
... death of the great and good Washington it is hoped will not be looked upon as a fulsome intrusion . The remarks , extracts , & c . upon the character of Washington , and other extracts - reminiscences of the past as contained in the ...
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... death . Demanded a permit to visit the pestilential prisonship , in which laid bleeding and suffering the object of her early attach- ment , the object of her first love , -the partner of her joys - the partner of her sorrows , -a ...
... death . Demanded a permit to visit the pestilential prisonship , in which laid bleeding and suffering the object of her early attach- ment , the object of her first love , -the partner of her joys - the partner of her sorrows , -a ...
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... death of that son . " What's hallowed ground ? where heroes sleep , ' Tis not the sculptured piles you heap , In dews that heavens far distant weep , Their turf may bloom ; Or genii twine beneath the deep Their coral tomb . Is't death ...
... death of that son . " What's hallowed ground ? where heroes sleep , ' Tis not the sculptured piles you heap , In dews that heavens far distant weep , Their turf may bloom ; Or genii twine beneath the deep Their coral tomb . Is't death ...
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... death . , I have wished to preserve the re- miniscences in the past history of my country's wrongs , struggles , conquests and glories - that they may not lie ' buried and lost in the silence of the grave with their possessor . I wish ...
... death . , I have wished to preserve the re- miniscences in the past history of my country's wrongs , struggles , conquests and glories - that they may not lie ' buried and lost in the silence of the grave with their possessor . I wish ...
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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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