The Life of George Washington: Commander in Chief of the American Forces, During the War which Established the Independence of His Country, and First President of the United States. Compiled Under the Inspection of the Honourable Bushrod Washington, from Original Papers ... to which is Prefixed, an Introduction, Containing a Compendious View of the Colonies Planted by the English on the Continent of North America, from Their Settlement to the Commencement of that War which Terminated in Their Independence, Volume 2C.P. Wayne., 1804 - Presidents |
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... necessary for im- mediate use , were destroyed . General Brad- dock died at this place , and colonel Dunbar , a short time afterwards , marched the remaining August . regular troops to Philadelphia , to go into what he termed winter ...
... necessary for im- mediate use , were destroyed . General Brad- dock died at this place , and colonel Dunbar , a short time afterwards , marched the remaining August . regular troops to Philadelphia , to go into what he termed winter ...
Page 24
... necessary supplies , and in establishing the general principles of disci- pline , especially the necessity of an exact obedience to orders . Early in the ensuing spring , the enemy in- vited by the success of the preceding year , made ...
... necessary supplies , and in establishing the general principles of disci- pline , especially the necessity of an exact obedience to orders . Early in the ensuing spring , the enemy in- vited by the success of the preceding year , made ...
Page 28
... necessary to garrison the chain of forts , which must be indispensably kept up , so long as the French maintained their position on the Ohio . In making this statement , he observed that , with the exception of a few inhabitants ...
... necessary to garrison the chain of forts , which must be indispensably kept up , so long as the French maintained their position on the Ohio . In making this statement , he observed that , with the exception of a few inhabitants ...
Page 39
... necessary to evince the necessity of altering them to a vigor- ous offensive war , in order to remove the cause . " But in the event that the assembly should still indulge that favourite scheme of protecting the inhabitants by forts ...
... necessary to evince the necessity of altering them to a vigor- ous offensive war , in order to remove the cause . " But in the event that the assembly should still indulge that favourite scheme of protecting the inhabitants by forts ...
Page 48
... necessary that , without it , the remaining inhabitants of this once fertile and po- pulous valley , will scarcely be detained at their dwellings until the spring . And if there is no expedition to the westward then , nor a force more ...
... necessary that , without it , the remaining inhabitants of this once fertile and po- pulous valley , will scarcely be detained at their dwellings until the spring . And if there is no expedition to the westward then , nor a force more ...
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