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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... enemies . They hurled them in the display and exercise of a mighty and glorious military prowess - they hurled them in the exer- cise of an onward colonial strength gigantic , as enemies of freedom , from off LIBERTY'S soil . Among ...
... enemies . They hurled them in the display and exercise of a mighty and glorious military prowess - they hurled them in the exer- cise of an onward colonial strength gigantic , as enemies of freedom , from off LIBERTY'S soil . Among ...
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... enemies the conti- nental troops becaine possessed of upwards of " one hun- dred pieces of ordnance , " and other " munitions of war , " these brilliant achievements inspired the colonial troops , the Congress of the colonies and the ...
... enemies the conti- nental troops becaine possessed of upwards of " one hun- dred pieces of ordnance , " and other " munitions of war , " these brilliant achievements inspired the colonial troops , the Congress of the colonies and the ...
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... enemies shall have bound us hand and foot ? Sir , we are not weak , if we make a proper use of those means which the ... enemy can send against us . Besides , sir , we shall not fight our battles alone . There is a just God who presides ...
... enemies shall have bound us hand and foot ? Sir , we are not weak , if we make a proper use of those means which the ... enemy can send against us . Besides , sir , we shall not fight our battles alone . There is a just God who presides ...
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... enemies . Tories , who aided and abetted the royalists in every possible shape , and in nothing did they betray a more reckless or hellish spirit than in their being the conductors of the British in their midnight descents upon the ...
... enemies . Tories , who aided and abetted the royalists in every possible shape , and in nothing did they betray a more reckless or hellish spirit than in their being the conductors of the British in their midnight descents upon the ...
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... enemy exclaiming " Liber- ty and my country forever . " " Victory , my brave , " shouted Sergeant M'Donald , waving his sword , when at that moment a thirty - two pound shot entering one of the embrasures , dismounted a gun , and ...
... enemy exclaiming " Liber- ty and my country forever . " " Victory , my brave , " shouted Sergeant M'Donald , waving his sword , when at that moment a thirty - two pound shot entering one of the embrasures , dismounted a gun , and ...
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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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