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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Page 101
... play a magnificent game of blood and battle , for the stake , which was nothing less than the good city of Philadel ... fife and drum , the bugle - note , and clarion sound ; and while the morning sun shone brightly on their well ...
... play a magnificent game of blood and battle , for the stake , which was nothing less than the good city of Philadel ... fife and drum , the bugle - note , and clarion sound ; and while the morning sun shone brightly on their well ...
Page 207
... Fife Majors to a short distance from the camp and practice in playing on the Fife and in beating on the Drum . The Fife Major taught the Fifers and the Drum Major the Drummers . There were , however , grown musicians that had not to ...
... Fife Majors to a short distance from the camp and practice in playing on the Fife and in beating on the Drum . The Fife Major taught the Fifers and the Drum Major the Drummers . There were , however , grown musicians that had not to ...
Page 221
... Fife Major ( Alexander McKinley ) to be in readiness to play the Dead March . On the day of his execution , the ... playing the dead march all the way from the provo guard - house to the gallows . . After he arrived at the gallows , a ...
... Fife Major ( Alexander McKinley ) to be in readiness to play the Dead March . On the day of his execution , the ... playing the dead march all the way from the provo guard - house to the gallows . . After he arrived at the gallows , a ...
Page 261
... Fife Major and bade him to go to the barracks and bring the rope and the cat - o ' - nine - tails . These were ... played the soldiers " out to the gal lows , where they formed into a large circle around it . We then had to play the ...
... Fife Major and bade him to go to the barracks and bring the rope and the cat - o ' - nine - tails . These were ... played the soldiers " out to the gal lows , where they formed into a large circle around it . We then had to play the ...
Page 271
... play the fife , providing that I always run out of the cellars I would take my hands and push placed my fingers over the holes of my fife before I them down along my legs as a person would stockings , would put it to my mouth . There ...
... play the fife , providing that I always run out of the cellars I would take my hands and push placed my fingers over the holes of my fife before I them down along my legs as a person would stockings , would put it to my mouth . There ...
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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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