Life of George Washington, 第 4 卷Bohn, 1857 |
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... Infantry - Proposes a brilliant Stroke - Preparations for an Attack on the British Posts of New York Island - Visit of the Marquis of Chastellux to the American Camp - Washington at Head - Quarters - Attack on the British Posts given up ...
... Infantry - Proposes a brilliant Stroke - Preparations for an Attack on the British Posts of New York Island - Visit of the Marquis of Chastellux to the American Camp - Washington at Head - Quarters - Attack on the British Posts given up ...
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... infantry , under Lieutenant - colonel Boskirk , crossed from Staten Island to Trembly's Point , surprised the picket - guard at Elizabethtown , and captured two majors , two cap- tains , and forty - two privates . This , likewise , was ...
... infantry , under Lieutenant - colonel Boskirk , crossed from Staten Island to Trembly's Point , surprised the picket - guard at Elizabethtown , and captured two majors , two cap- tains , and forty - two privates . This , likewise , was ...
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... infantry and grenadiers invested the mansion ; the cavalry posted themselves on a neigh- boring eminence , to prevent retreat or reinforcement , and the house was assailed . It made a brave resist- ance , and was aided by some of the ...
... infantry and grenadiers invested the mansion ; the cavalry posted themselves on a neigh- boring eminence , to prevent retreat or reinforcement , and the house was assailed . It made a brave resist- ance , and was aided by some of the ...
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... infantry . * On the 7th of April , Brigadier - general Woodford with seven hundred Virginia troops , after a forced march of five hundred miles in thirty days , crossed from the east side of Cooper River , by the only pas- sage now open ...
... infantry . * On the 7th of April , Brigadier - general Woodford with seven hundred Virginia troops , after a forced march of five hundred miles in thirty days , crossed from the east side of Cooper River , by the only pas- sage now open ...
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... infantry , and by Colonel William Washington , with such of his dragoons as had escaped at Monk's Corner . Cornwallis had committed the country between Cooper and Wando Rivers to Tarleton's charge , with orders to * Stedman , ii . 183 ...
... infantry , and by Colonel William Washington , with such of his dragoons as had escaped at Monk's Corner . Cornwallis had committed the country between Cooper and Wando Rivers to Tarleton's charge , with orders to * Stedman , ii . 183 ...
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第 291 頁 - It would have been a less painful circumstance to me to have heard that in consequence of your non-compliance with their request, they had burnt my house and laid the plantation in ruins. You ought to have considered yourself as my representative, and should have reflected on the bad example of communicating with the enemy, and making a voluntary offer of refreshments to them with a view to prevent a conflagration.
第 505 頁 - About ten o'clock I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and to domestic felicity, and with a mind oppressed with more anxious and painful sensations than I have words to express, set out for New York, in company with Mr.
第 408 頁 - ... let me request you to rely on the plighted faith of your country, and place a full confidence in the purity of the intentions of Congress...
第 492 頁 - The consequences of a lax or inefficient government are too obvious to be dwelt upon. Thirteen sovereignties pulling against each other, and all tugging at the federal head, will soon bring ruin on the whole; whereas a liberal and energetic constitution, well checked, and well watched to prevent encroachments, might restore us to that degree of respectability and consequence, to which we had the fairest prospect of attaining.
第 117 頁 - In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways. 7 The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.
第 439 頁 - You have conducted the great military contest with wisdom and fortitude, invariably regarding the rights of the civil power through all disasters and changes.
第 405 頁 - After mature deliberation," added he, " they will devise what further measures ought to be adopted as most rational and best calculated to obtain the just and important object in view.," On the following day another anonymous address was circulated, written in a more moderate tone, but to the same purport with the first, and affecting to construe the general orders into an approbation of the object sought ; only changing the day appointed for the meeting.
第 431 頁 - ... offer in their behalf his recommendations to their grateful country, and his prayers to the God of armies. May ample justice be done them here, and may the choicest of Heaven's favors, both here and hereafter, attend those who, under the Divine auspices, have secured innumerable blessings for others. With these wishes, and this benediction, the commander-in-chief is about to retire from service. The curtain of separation will soon be drawn, and the military scene to him will be closed for ever.
第 422 頁 - There are four things which I humbly conceive are essential to the -well-being, I may even venture to say to the existence, of the United States as an independent power. First. An indissoluble union of the States under one federal head.
第 428 頁 - I could not help taking a more extensive view of the vast inland navigation of these United States, from maps and the information of others ; and could not but be struck with the immense extent and importance of it, and with the goodness of that Providence, which has dealt its favors to us with so profuse a hand. Would to God we may have wisdom enough to improve them. I shall not rest contented, till I have explored the western country, and traversed those lines, or great part of them, which have...