Official Letters to the Honorable American Congress: Written, During the War Between the United Colonies and Great Britain, Volume 1Cadell Junior, 1795 - United States |
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... Boston , from the best account I can get from thence , is but very poorly fupplied . At this place , they have fearce any . How they VOL . I. B are are provided at general Woofter's camp , I have not OFFICIAL LETTERS ...
... Boston , from the best account I can get from thence , is but very poorly fupplied . At this place , they have fearce any . How they VOL . I. B are are provided at general Woofter's camp , I have not OFFICIAL LETTERS ...
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... Boston and Charlestown . They have also a battery on Copfe - hill , on the Boston fide , which much annoyed our troops in the late attack . Upon the neck , they have alfo deeply intrenched and fortified . Their ad- vanced guards , till ...
... Boston and Charlestown . They have also a battery on Copfe - hill , on the Boston fide , which much annoyed our troops in the late attack . Upon the neck , they have alfo deeply intrenched and fortified . Their ad- vanced guards , till ...
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... Boston is very obvious : but all my accounts from thence agree that there is a great mortality , occafioned by the want of vegetables and fresh meat ; and that their lofs in the late battle at Charlestown ( from the few recoveries ! of ...
... Boston is very obvious : but all my accounts from thence agree that there is a great mortality , occafioned by the want of vegetables and fresh meat ; and that their lofs in the late battle at Charlestown ( from the few recoveries ! of ...
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... Boston , induced me to write to general Gage on that fubject . His answer and my reply I have the honor to lay before the Congrefs , in the inclofures N ° 2 , 3 , 4 ; fince which I have heard nothing from him . I remain , with the ...
... Boston , induced me to write to general Gage on that fubject . His answer and my reply I have the honor to lay before the Congrefs , in the inclofures N ° 2 , 3 , 4 ; fince which I have heard nothing from him . I remain , with the ...
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... Boston , collecting all poffible intelligence , and digesting the whole , a surprise did not appear to me wholly impracticable , though hazardous . I communicated it to the general officers fome days before I called them to a council ...
... Boston , collecting all poffible intelligence , and digesting the whole , a surprise did not appear to me wholly impracticable , though hazardous . I communicated it to the general officers fome days before I called them to a council ...
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