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" Our situation is truly distressing. The check our detachment sustained on the 27th ultimo has dispirited too great a proportion of our troops and filled their minds with apprehension and despair. The militia, instead of calling forth their utmost efforts... "
The Life of George Washington,: Commander in Chief of the American Forces ... - Page 453
by John Marshall - 1804
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The Military Policy of the United States

Emory Upton - United States - 1912 - 546 pages
...to return. Great numbers of them have gone off — in some instances almost by whole regiments, bv half ones, and by companies at a time. This circumstance...of itself independent of others, when fronted by a well-appointed enemy superior in number to our whole collected force, would be sufficiently disagreeable,...
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Congressional Serial Set

United States - 1916 - 544 pages
...troops and filled their minds with apprehension and despair. The militia, instead of calling forth their utmost efforts to a brave and manly opposition in...off — in some instances almost by whole regiments, by half ones, and by companies at a time. This circumstance of itself independent of others, when fronted...
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Lectures on the Growth and Development of the United States ..., Volume 2

Edwin Wiley, Irving Everett Rines, Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1916 - 560 pages
...troops, and filled their minds with apprehension and despair. The militia, instead of calling forth their utmost efforts to a brave and manly opposition in...numbers of them have gone off; in some instances, almost hy whole regiments, by half ones, and by companies at a time. This circumstance of itself, independent...
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The Navy

Naval art and science - 1916 - 308 pages
...troops and filled their minds with apprehension and despair. The militia, instead of calling forth their utmost efforts to a brave and manly opposition in order to repair our loss, are dismayed, intractable, and impatient to return. Great numbers have already gone off, in some...
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The Commonwealth of Nations: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Citizenship in ...

Lionel Curtis - Colonies - 1917 - 788 pages
...troops, and filled their minds with apprehension and despair. The militia, instead of calling forth their utmost efforts to a brave and manly opposition, in...of itself, independent of others, when fronted by a well-appointed enemy, superior in number to our whole collected force, would be sufficiently disagreeable...
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The Military Policy of the United States

Emory Upton, United States. War Department - United States - 1917 - 546 pages
...troops and filled their minds with apprehension and despair. The militia, instead of calling forth their utmost efforts to a brave and manly opposition in...losses, are dismayed, intractable, and impatient to -eturn. Great numbers or them have gone off — in some instances almost by whole rtgiments, by half...
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The History of the United States Army

William Addleman Ganoe - United States - 1924 - 650 pages
...their minds with apprehension and despair. The militia instead of calling forth their utmost effort to a brave and manly opposition in order to repair...off — in some instances almost by whole regiments, by halfones, and by companies at a time." John White, writing from Rhinebeck after these parties had...
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George Washington ...

Rupert Hughes - 1927 - 746 pages
...and filled their minds with apprehension and despair. "The militia, instead of calling forth their utmost efforts to a brave and manly opposition in...off; in some instances, almost by whole regiments, by half ones, and by companies at a time. This circumstance, of itself, independent of others, when...
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Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, Volume 36

American Antiquarian Society - Electronic journals - 1927 - 432 pages
...troops, and filled their minds with apprehension and despair. The militia instead of calling forth their utmost efforts to a brave and manly opposition in order to repair our losses are discouraged, intractable, and impatient to return. Great numbers of them have gone off, in some instances...
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The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745 ...

George Washington - Government publications - 1932 - 668 pages
...John Haslet, of the Delaware Regiment. He was killed at Princeton, NJ, Jan. 3, 1777. 1776] MILITIA utmost efforts to a brave and manly opposition, in...off, in some instances almost by whole Regiments, by half ones and by Companies at a Time. This circumstance of itself, Independent of others, when fronted...
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