An Impartial History of the Present War in America: Containing an Account of Its Rise and Progress, the Political Springs Thereof with Its Various Successes and Disappointments on Both Sides, Volume 2Robson, 1780 |
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... army in the town and on Bunker's Hill , to fee provifions and other neceffaries juft fnatched from them before their eyes , and when their hopes were at the height of expectation of poffeffing them . Notwithstanding these severe ...
... army in the town and on Bunker's Hill , to fee provifions and other neceffaries juft fnatched from them before their eyes , and when their hopes were at the height of expectation of poffeffing them . Notwithstanding these severe ...
Page 52
... army muft of course have ultimately been engaged in . Providence at this time fruftrated the defigns of the General , and probably for his own good , for had he proceeded to attack the work , it is not improbable that his whole army ...
... army muft of course have ultimately been engaged in . Providence at this time fruftrated the defigns of the General , and probably for his own good , for had he proceeded to attack the work , it is not improbable that his whole army ...
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... army were not as yet in a fituation which admitted of their undertaking any expedition . They wanted both provifions and refreshment before they under- took any expedition of confequence . They did not , it was faid , exceed nine ...
... army were not as yet in a fituation which admitted of their undertaking any expedition . They wanted both provifions and refreshment before they under- took any expedition of confequence . They did not , it was faid , exceed nine ...
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... army having joined at Three Rivers , pushed forward by land and water with great expedition . They had now nothing but the ordinary chances of the way to interrupt their march , and they made all the expedi- tion that they could to ...
... army having joined at Three Rivers , pushed forward by land and water with great expedition . They had now nothing but the ordinary chances of the way to interrupt their march , and they made all the expedi- tion that they could to ...
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... army , at a time when it was encumbered with a vaft number of fick , most of whom were ill of the fmall - pox . An end was now put to the war in Canada ; the ad- vantages of which were however confiderably check- ed by the restraint ...
... army , at a time when it was encumbered with a vaft number of fick , most of whom were ill of the fmall - pox . An end was now put to the war in Canada ; the ad- vantages of which were however confiderably check- ed by the restraint ...
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