Historical Collections of the State of Pennsylvania: Containing a Copious Selection of the Most Interesting Facts, Traditions, Biographical Sketches, Anecdotes, Etc., Relating to Its History and Antiquities, Both General and Local, with Topographical Descriptions of Every County and All the Larger Towns in the StateG. W. Gorton, 1843 - 708 頁 |
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... Washington was sent on a mission to Fort Le Boeuf to inquire by what right these encroachments were made . He received an evasive answer ; but their intention was plain , to connect by a line of fortifications along the Ohio , their ...
... Washington was sent on a mission to Fort Le Boeuf to inquire by what right these encroachments were made . He received an evasive answer ; but their intention was plain , to connect by a line of fortifications along the Ohio , their ...
第 27 頁
... Washington and Bouquet . Washington strongly urged the road cut by Braddock ( now the great Cumberland road ) as the most favorable route ; but the Pennsylvanians were bent upon the policy of securing a new road exclusively through ...
... Washington and Bouquet . Washington strongly urged the road cut by Braddock ( now the great Cumberland road ) as the most favorable route ; but the Pennsylvanians were bent upon the policy of securing a new road exclusively through ...
第 33 頁
... Washington , who knew that country so well , and had taken up much land in it , entertained the idea probably at that date , that what are now the counties of Fayette , Greene , and Washington , were in Virginia . Some of these new ...
... Washington , who knew that country so well , and had taken up much land in it , entertained the idea probably at that date , that what are now the counties of Fayette , Greene , and Washington , were in Virginia . Some of these new ...
第 36 頁
... Washington was placed at the head of the army . A post - office department was organized , at the head of which Benjamin Franklin was placed . The assembly of Pennsylvania immediately took measures to raise the four thousand three ...
... Washington was placed at the head of the army . A post - office department was organized , at the head of which Benjamin Franklin was placed . The assembly of Pennsylvania immediately took measures to raise the four thousand three ...
第 38 頁
... Washington's standard with spirit and in considerable numbers . On the night of the 25th December , Gen. Washington , with a force of only 2,400 men , boldly pushed across the Delaware and attacked the Hessian regiments at Trenton ...
... Washington's standard with spirit and in considerable numbers . On the night of the 25th December , Gen. Washington , with a force of only 2,400 men , boldly pushed across the Delaware and attacked the Hessian regiments at Trenton ...
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