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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... Hill at Erie , the more especially if they had beheld a butcher with an ox goad wand and heard his " wo whato come around here " expression in his conducting him as it were by the talismanic power of his wand and the 1 * E225 iv ...
... Hill at Erie , the more especially if they had beheld a butcher with an ox goad wand and heard his " wo whato come around here " expression in his conducting him as it were by the talismanic power of his wand and the 1 * E225 iv ...
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... 55 , Captain Dewees perform- ed the part of a musician to two regiments , and stood with musket in hand in the entrenchments at or near Chinquepin Hill , on the nights of the 11th , 20 21 INTRODUCTORY ADDRESS . INTRODUCTORY ADDRESS.
... 55 , Captain Dewees perform- ed the part of a musician to two regiments , and stood with musket in hand in the entrenchments at or near Chinquepin Hill , on the nights of the 11th , 20 21 INTRODUCTORY ADDRESS . INTRODUCTORY ADDRESS.
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... Hill , on the nights of the 11th , 12th , 13th , and 14th of September , 1814 . And now should the bold noted trumpet of war be sounded aloud - now would our aged revolutionary wor- thy step forth and home in the tented fields of his ...
... Hill , on the nights of the 11th , 12th , 13th , and 14th of September , 1814 . And now should the bold noted trumpet of war be sounded aloud - now would our aged revolutionary wor- thy step forth and home in the tented fields of his ...
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... hill could be heard the spirit - stirring fife and drum , playing and beat- ing an appeal to arms . Many of the colonists done early homage to the immac- ulate God of the illustrious republican city of true liberty , set upon a lofty ...
... hill could be heard the spirit - stirring fife and drum , playing and beat- ing an appeal to arms . Many of the colonists done early homage to the immac- ulate God of the illustrious republican city of true liberty , set upon a lofty ...
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... Hill . Colonels Stark and Preston , accompanied by Captain Knowlton were the conductors of this detach- ment - encouraged by the repeated presence and aid of that gallant old officer General Putnam , they succeeded in fortifying ...
... Hill . Colonels Stark and Preston , accompanied by Captain Knowlton were the conductors of this detach- ment - encouraged by the repeated presence and aid of that gallant old officer General Putnam , they succeeded in fortifying ...
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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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