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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... readers , and could give many relations , but as he is necessarily bounded by the limits of a preface let two or three statements suffice . Let his readers accompany him to the almost insup , PREFACE . 1844105 portable wintry cold ...
... readers , and could give many relations , but as he is necessarily bounded by the limits of a preface let two or three statements suffice . Let his readers accompany him to the almost insup , PREFACE . 1844105 portable wintry cold ...
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... readers that this was soldier's meat . Worse than this surely was that meat offered and refused after- wards that would cause Col. Fenton's Regiment of Penn- sylvania Volunteers and Militia through their brave and much lamented Col ...
... readers that this was soldier's meat . Worse than this surely was that meat offered and refused after- wards that would cause Col. Fenton's Regiment of Penn- sylvania Volunteers and Militia through their brave and much lamented Col ...
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... readers . * In the prose part of the work the author has been somewhat indifferent as to system . He wishes to con- vey distinctly his meaning to his readers at all times.— Plain and candid people will most certainly be satisfied with ...
... readers . * In the prose part of the work the author has been somewhat indifferent as to system . He wishes to con- vey distinctly his meaning to his readers at all times.— Plain and candid people will most certainly be satisfied with ...
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... readers . With Thos . Paine's production , his Age of Reason which strikes at the divinity of a Saviour and endeavors to sap the foundation of the christian religion , the author of this present work cannot be said to have claimed an ac ...
... readers . With Thos . Paine's production , his Age of Reason which strikes at the divinity of a Saviour and endeavors to sap the foundation of the christian religion , the author of this present work cannot be said to have claimed an ac ...
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... READERS OF THE FOLLOWING WORK . As a first remark I would state to my readers that I have from advisement been induced to offer , instead of an ordinary introduction , an introductory address - a sy- nopsis ( as it were ) of the ...
... READERS OF THE FOLLOWING WORK . As a first remark I would state to my readers that I have from advisement been induced to offer , instead of an ordinary introduction , an introductory address - a sy- nopsis ( as it were ) of the ...
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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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