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 Honourable 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, from Their Settlement to the Commencement of that War which Terminated in Their Independence, Volume 2 |
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Page 81
The gainful commerce so long clandestinely carried on with the French and
Spanish colonies , in the progress of which an evasion of the duties imposed by
law had been overlooked by the government , was now to be very rigorously ...
The gainful commerce so long clandestinely carried on with the French and
Spanish colonies , in the progress of which an evasion of the duties imposed by
law had been overlooked by the government , was now to be very rigorously ...
Page 273
Hitherto the war , though carried on with the utmost activity of which the means
possessed by America would admit , had for its professed object , only a redress
of grievances . The language , that it was a war only against a corrupt ...
Hitherto the war , though carried on with the utmost activity of which the means
possessed by America would admit , had for its professed object , only a redress
of grievances . The language , that it was a war only against a corrupt ...
Page 516
Having now carried the lines and all the The lines of strong ground adjoining , the
British general ton carried again summoned colonel Magaw to surrender . enemy
, and While the capitulation was progressing , general Washington sent him a ...
Having now carried the lines and all the The lines of strong ground adjoining , the
British general ton carried again summoned colonel Magaw to surrender . enemy
, and While the capitulation was progressing , general Washington sent him a ...
Page 6
Don ' t you concern yourself with it : we took and carried them to Canada , to get
intelligence of what the English were doing in Virginia . ” He informed me that
they had built two forts , one on lake Erie , and another on French creek , near a ...
Don ' t you concern yourself with it : we took and carried them to Canada , to get
intelligence of what the English were doing in Virginia . ” He informed me that
they had built two forts , one on lake Erie , and another on French creek , near a ...
Page 15
But I rather think the design of that is , to bring away all our straggling traders they
meet with , as I privately understood they intended to carry an officer , & c . with
them . And what rather confirms this opinion , I was inquiring of the commander ...
But I rather think the design of that is , to bring away all our straggling traders they
meet with , as I privately understood they intended to carry an officer , & c . with
them . And what rather confirms this opinion , I was inquiring of the commander ...
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| Title | 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 Honourable Bushrod Washington, from Original Papers ... to which is ..., Volume 2 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 Honourable 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, from Their Settlement to the Commencement of that War which Terminated in Their Independence, Bushrod Washington |
| Author | John Marshall |
| Publisher | C.P. Wayne., 1804 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 21 Jul 2007 |
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