 | George Washington - Presidents - 1800 - 240 pages
...POLITICAL LEGACIES. IN CONGRESS, 7 Thursday, June 15, 1775. $ JVESOLVED, That a GENERAL be appointed to command all the continental forces, raised, or to be raised, for the defence of American liberty. THAT five hundred dollars per month be allowed for the pay and expences... | |
 | Thomas Jones Rogers - United States - 1823 - 376 pages
...congress resolved to raise several companies of riflemen, &c. and that a general should be appointed to command all the continental forces raised, or to be raised, for the defence of American liberty; and GEORGE WASHINGTON, was unanimously elected. Congress, at the same... | |
 | United States. Continental Congress - Law - 1823 - 644 pages
...report. The report of the committee being read and considered, Resolved, That a general be appointed to command all the continental forces, raised, or to be raised, for the defence of American liberty. That five hundred dollars, per month, be allowed for the pay and expenses... | |
 | Peter Force - United States - 1833 - 348 pages
...who was elected the next day. On Thursday, June 15, Congress Resolved that " a General be ap>uinted to command all the Continental forces, raised or to be raised, for he defence of American liberty :" and " That five hundred dollars per month, be allowed for the pay... | |
 | George Washington - 1838 - 114 pages
...RESOLUTION OF THE CONGRESS. IN CONGRESS, Philadelphia, June 15, 1775. Resolved, That a General be appointed to command all the Continental Forces, raised, or to be raised, for the defence of American Liberty. That Five Hundred Dollars, per month, be allowed for the pay and expenses... | |
 | 1842 - 544 pages
...farther resolutions, which he was ordered to report. It was then " Resolved, That a general be appointed to command all the continental forces, raised or to be raised for the defence of American liberty. " The Congress then proceeded to the choice of a general by ballot, and... | |
 | William Gammell - 1846 - 144 pages
...further resolutions, which he was ordered to report. It was then resolved, That a General be appointed to command all the Continental forces raised, or to be raised, for the defence of American liberty. " The Congress then proceeded to the choice of a General by ballot, and... | |
 | William Hickey - Constitutional history - 1846 - 396 pages
...report. The report of the committee being read and considered, Resolved, That a general be appointed to command all the Continental forces raised, or to be raised, for the defence of American liberty. That five hundred dollars, per month, be allowed for the pay and expenses... | |
 | Jared Sparks - United States - 1846 - 530 pages
...further resolutions, which he was ordered to report. It was then resolved, That a General be appointed to command all the Continental forces raised, or to be raised, for the defence of American liberty. " The Congress then proceeded to the choice of a General by ballot, and... | |
 | Andrew Henshaw Ward - Registers of births, etc - 1847 - 520 pages
...following, being then in session, among other proceedings, " Resolved, That a GENERAL be appointed to command all the Continental Forces raised, or to be raised, for the defence of American Liberty." On the 16th, the Congress "Resolved, That two Major Generals be appointed... | |
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Washington be appointed commander of the forces raised, or to be raised, for the defense of American liberty... 
