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 Hon. 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, Volume 2Richard Phillips, 1804 - Presidents |
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Page 4
... extremely difficult . After surmounting confiderable impediments from the snow and high waters , he reached the mouth of Turtle Creek on the Monongahela , on the 228 , where he learned from an Indian trader , that the French general was ...
... extremely difficult . After surmounting confiderable impediments from the snow and high waters , he reached the mouth of Turtle Creek on the Monongahela , on the 228 , where he learned from an Indian trader , that the French general was ...
Page 6
... extremely well situated for a fort , as it has the absolute command of both rivers . The land at the point is twenty or twenty - five feet above the common surface of the water , and a considerable bot- tom of flat well - timbered land ...
... extremely well situated for a fort , as it has the absolute command of both rivers . The land at the point is twenty or twenty - five feet above the common surface of the water , and a considerable bot- tom of flat well - timbered land ...
Page 7
... extremely well designed for water - carriage , as it is of a deep , still nature : besides , a fort at the Fork might be built at much less expence than at the other place . Nature has well contrived this lower place for water defence ...
... extremely well designed for water - carriage , as it is of a deep , still nature : besides , a fort at the Fork might be built at much less expence than at the other place . Nature has well contrived this lower place for water defence ...
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... Extremely such as those . I tell you , down that river I will go , and build upon it , according to my command . If the river was blocked up I have forces sufficient to burst it open , and tread under my feet all that stand in ...
... Extremely such as those . I tell you , down that river I will go , and build upon it , according to my command . If the river was blocked up I have forces sufficient to burst it open , and tread under my feet all that stand in ...
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... Extremely solicitous to be engaged as early as p s- sible in active service , and to be usefully employed , he of French Indians had carried a white boy by Kuskuska Town to- wards the Lakes . 26th . We met in council at the Long - house ...
... Extremely solicitous to be engaged as early as p s- sible in active service , and to be usefully employed , he of French Indians had carried a white boy by Kuskuska Town to- wards the Lakes . 26th . We met in council at the Long - house ...
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