History of England: From the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Versailles, 1713-1783, Volume 6Little, Brown, 1853 - Great Britain |
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... Clinton Further Councils of War The Convention concluded The British troops lay down their arms Generosity of General Schuyler Numbers on both sides General reflections - Hostile feeling of Gates to Washington Washington's noble conduct ...
... Clinton Further Councils of War The Convention concluded The British troops lay down their arms Generosity of General Schuyler Numbers on both sides General reflections - Hostile feeling of Gates to Washington Washington's noble conduct ...
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... Clinton and Lord Percy . The common senti- ment was that the Government during the last few years had been justly provoked by the misconduct of Massachu- setts and the other New England provinces , that con- ciliation had been tried and ...
... Clinton and Lord Percy . The common senti- ment was that the Government during the last few years had been justly provoked by the misconduct of Massachu- setts and the other New England provinces , that con- ciliation had been tried and ...
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... Clinton , officers who , as will be seen hereafter , bore a principal part in the subsequent transactions of the war . By this accession the whole force under General Gage as Com- mander - in - Chief was raised to nearly ten thousand ...
... Clinton , officers who , as will be seen hereafter , bore a principal part in the subsequent transactions of the war . By this accession the whole force under General Gage as Com- mander - in - Chief was raised to nearly ten thousand ...
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... Clinton , without waiting for orders , put himself at the head of a small detachment ( two battalions ) which hastened over in boats from Boston . The reinforcement though small was most seasonable , and the presence of Clinton himself ...
... Clinton , without waiting for orders , put himself at the head of a small detachment ( two battalions ) which hastened over in boats from Boston . The reinforcement though small was most seasonable , and the presence of Clinton himself ...
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... Clinton , to the command of the second , at a later period , General Burgoyne . With respect to North Carolina , Mr. Martin , the late Governor of that province , had endeavoured to raise a counter - revolution , through the means of ...
... Clinton , to the command of the second , at a later period , General Burgoyne . With respect to North Carolina , Mr. Martin , the late Governor of that province , had endeavoured to raise a counter - revolution , through the means of ...
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Page 60 - ... we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained, we must fight ; I repeat it. sir, we must fight ! An appeal to arms, and to the God of Hosts, is all that is left us ! They tell us, sir, that we are weak, unable to cope with so formidable an adversary.
Page 203 - ... against your Protestant brethren; to lay waste their country, to desolate their dwellings, and extirpate their race and name, with these horrible hell-hounds of savage war! — hell-hounds, I say, of savage war.
Page 21 - I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
Page 48 - His violent prejudice against our West Indian and American settlers appeared whenever there was an opportunity. Towards the conclusion of his " Taxation no Tyranny," he says, " how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?
Page 329 - GOD ALMIGHTY first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross...
Page 307 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Page 202 - That God and nature put into our hands ! " I know not what ideas that lord may entertain of God and nature; but I know that such abominable principles are equally abhorrent to religion and humanity. What! to attribute the sacred sanction of God and nature to the massacres of the Indian scalping-knife — to the cannibal savage torturing, murdering...
Page 320 - My descriptions are all from nature ; not one of them second-handed. My delineations of the heart are from my own experience ; not one of them borrowed from books, or in the least degree conjectural.
Page 22 - Thucydides, and have studied and admired the master states of the world — that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation, or body of men, can stand in preference to the general congress at Philadelphia.
Page 230 - ... why is not the latter commenced without hesitation ? I am not, I confess, well informed of the resources of this kingdom ; but I trust it has still sufficient to maintain its just rights, though I know them not. But, my Lords, any state is better than despair. Let us at least make one effort ; and if we must fall, let us fall like men...