History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution: Interspersed with Biographical, Political and Moral Observations, Volume 2Manning and Loring, For E. Larkin, No. 47, Cornhill, 1805 - 1340 halaman The letters concern the production and sale of the book; the account leaf records the sales of Warren's History. |
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... , and withdrew to Saratoga . He had been making fome efforts to collect the militia from the country contiguous , to aid and fup- VOL . II . CHAP . XL 1777 . CHAP . XI . 1777 . port the routed corps THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION . 9.
... , and withdrew to Saratoga . He had been making fome efforts to collect the militia from the country contiguous , to aid and fup- VOL . II . CHAP . XL 1777 . CHAP . XI . 1777 . port the routed corps THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION . 9.
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... militia , and haftened them forward . Congress direct- ed general Washington to appoint proper offi- cers , to repair to Saratoga and take the com- mand . They also appointed a court of inquiry to take cognizance of the delinquency of ...
... militia , and haftened them forward . Congress direct- ed general Washington to appoint proper offi- cers , to repair to Saratoga and take the com- mand . They also appointed a court of inquiry to take cognizance of the delinquency of ...
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... militia , he fell into an ambufcade confifting moftly of Indians , and notwithstanding a manly defence , few of them efcaped . They were furrounded , routed , and butchered , in all the barbarous fhapes of favage brutality , after many ...
... militia , he fell into an ambufcade confifting moftly of Indians , and notwithstanding a manly defence , few of them efcaped . They were furrounded , routed , and butchered , in all the barbarous fhapes of favage brutality , after many ...
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... militia commanded by general Starks , had preffed for- ward , attacked , routed , and totally defeated colonel Baum , in the neighbourhood of Ben- nington . General Starks in his early youth , had been used to the alarm of war : his ...
... militia commanded by general Starks , had preffed for- ward , attacked , routed , and totally defeated colonel Baum , in the neighbourhood of Ben- nington . General Starks in his early youth , had been used to the alarm of war : his ...
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... militia . Colonel Brey- man , who arrived in the afternoon of the fame day , escaped a fimilar fate only by flight , after a fhort and brave defence , and the lofs of moft of his men . This memorable event would perhaps at any other ...
... militia . Colonel Brey- man , who arrived in the afternoon of the fame day , escaped a fimilar fate only by flight , after a fhort and brave defence , and the lofs of moft of his men . This memorable event would perhaps at any other ...
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