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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... Saratoga Madame de Riedesel Lady Harriet Acland Councils of war 1 # 4 171 ib . 172 173 ib . 175 ib . 176 ib . 178 ib . 179 ib . 180 ib . 181 182 Negotiation with General Gates 183 Terms of a Convention ib . News from the side of New ...
... Saratoga Madame de Riedesel Lady Harriet Acland Councils of war 1 # 4 171 ib . 172 173 ib . 175 ib . 176 ib . 178 ib . 179 ib . 180 ib . 181 182 Negotiation with General Gates 183 Terms of a Convention ib . News from the side of New ...
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... Saratoga . At the same time he had in view another enterprise on the opposite side . He had learnt that the enemy were collecting large supplies at Bennington , in part of live cattle , and in part of corn . To obtain these supplies for ...
... Saratoga . At the same time he had in view another enterprise on the opposite side . He had learnt that the enemy were collecting large supplies at Bennington , in part of live cattle , and in part of corn . To obtain these supplies for ...
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... Saratoga . The bridge of rafts had been carried away by heavy rains , and Frazer's men had to repass the Hudson as they best might by boats and canoes . Never- theless Burgoyne had not relinquished the hope and inten- tion of advancing ...
... Saratoga . The bridge of rafts had been carried away by heavy rains , and Frazer's men had to repass the Hudson as they best might by boats and canoes . Never- theless Burgoyne had not relinquished the hope and inten- tion of advancing ...
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... Saratoga . The Americans , under Gates , were ranged in front of Still- water , and lining a low range of hills known by the name of Behmus's Heights ; this encampment had been planned by Kosciusko . † On the 19th of September Burgoyne ...
... Saratoga . The Americans , under Gates , were ranged in front of Still- water , and lining a low range of hills known by the name of Behmus's Heights ; this encampment had been planned by Kosciusko . † On the 19th of September Burgoyne ...
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... Saratoga . His troops began to move that very night at nine o'clock . They were compelled to leave behind their hospital with their sick and wounded , whom Burgoyne could only commend , by letter , to the humanity of Gates . On the ...
... Saratoga . His troops began to move that very night at nine o'clock . They were compelled to leave behind their hospital with their sick and wounded , whom Burgoyne could only commend , by letter , to the humanity of Gates . On the ...
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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 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 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 263 - ... the peerage more than I do ; — but, my lords, I must say, that the peerage solicited me, not I the peerage. Nay more, I can say, and will say, that as a peer of parliament, as speaker of this right...
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 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 34 - If this state of his country had been foretold to him, would it not require all the sanguine credulity of youth, and all the fervid glow of enthusiasm, to make him believe it ? Fortunate man, he has lived to see it...
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 23 - To conclude, my lords, if the ministers thus persevere in misadvising and misleading the king, I will not say, that they can alienate the affections of his subjects from his crown ; but I will affirm, that they will make the crown not worth his wearing. I will not say that the king is betrayed ; but I will pronounce, that the kingdom is undone.