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... army and its stores , with a population so numerous that at an hour's warning 20,000 men could be concentrated on any one point along the line . CW To know the advantages , whether military , commercial , or social , which his country ...
... army and its stores , with a population so numerous that at an hour's warning 20,000 men could be concentrated on any one point along the line . CW To know the advantages , whether military , commercial , or social , which his country ...
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... army of New Plymouth and Connecticut . A mis- chance only changed the original plan of battle resolved on by their army , which was to attack the stronger position of the Piquods where their adi 70 Wa Tot སྡེ་』 ཚོ chief in person ...
... army of New Plymouth and Connecticut . A mis- chance only changed the original plan of battle resolved on by their army , which was to attack the stronger position of the Piquods where their adi 70 Wa Tot སྡེ་』 ཚོ chief in person ...
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... army of New England a to squadron of British navy . An assault seemed im- practicable . In this emergency , the besiegers vespread a report that some French prisoners in their hands were treated with barbarity . A remon- strance was the ...
... army of New England a to squadron of British navy . An assault seemed im- practicable . In this emergency , the besiegers vespread a report that some French prisoners in their hands were treated with barbarity . A remon- strance was the ...
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... army of the Americans and English did not exceed 400 men ; they were as many miles from any succour , and a vast forest lay between them and the nearest part of Vir- ginia . 28th May , Early in the day , the French rushed 1754. to the ...
... army of the Americans and English did not exceed 400 men ; they were as many miles from any succour , and a vast forest lay between them and the nearest part of Vir- ginia . 28th May , Early in the day , the French rushed 1754. to the ...
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... American army , with baggage , and colours , and arms , marched from their well - defended entrench- ments in face of a foe at least twice their number , commanded by an able general , M. Villiers . The man who was foremost in that ...
... American army , with baggage , and colours , and arms , marched from their well - defended entrench- ments in face of a foe at least twice their number , commanded by an able general , M. Villiers . The man who was foremost in that ...
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Page 234 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise ; the State remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Page 242 - I behold the surest pledges, that as, on one side, no local prejudices or attachments, no separate views nor party animosities, will misdirect the comprehensive and equal eye which ought to watch over this great assemblage of communities and interests...
Page 236 - He has constrained our fellow-citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country ; to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
Page 242 - I dwell on this prospect with every satisfaction which an ardent love for my country can inspire: since there is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists, in the economy and course of nature, an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness; between duty and advantage; between the genuine maxims of an honest and magnanimous policy, and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity...
Page 244 - Having thus imparted to you my sentiments as they have been awakened by the occasion which brings us together, I shall take my present leave, but not without resorting once more to the benign Parent of the human race, in humble supplication that, since he has been pleased to...
Page 238 - Happy in the confirmation of our independence and sovereignty, and pleased with the opportunity afforded the United States, of becoming a respectable nation, I resign with satisfaction the appointment I accepted with diffidence — a diffidence in my abilities to accomplish so arduous a task ; which however was superseded by a confidence in the rectitude of our cause, the support of the supreme power of the unioa and the patronage of Heaven.
Page 243 - To the preceding observations I have one to add, which will be most properly addressed to the House of Representatives. It concerns myself, and will therefore be as brief as possible. When I was first honored with a call into the service of my country, then on the eve of an arduous struggle for its liberties, the light in which I contemplated my duty required that I should renounce every pecuniary compensation.
Page 238 - It was impossible the choice of confidential officers to compose my family should have been more fortunate. Permit me, sir, to recommend in particular, those who have continued in the service to the present moment, as worthy of the favorable notice and patronage of Congress.
Page 243 - I must decline as inapplicable to myself any share in the personal emoluments which may be indispensably included in a permanent provision for the executive department, and must accordingly pray that the pecuniary estimates for the station in which I am placed may during my continuance in it be limited to such actual expenditures as the public good may be thought to require.
Page 239 - Having defended the standard of liberty in this new world : having taught a lesson useful to those who inflict and to those who feel oppression, you retire from the great theatre of action, with the blessings of your fellow-citizens, but the glory of your virtues will not terminate with your military command, it will continue to animate remotest ages.