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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... attack from an enemy . They alfo from this time encreafed the night patroles ; and fhewed an evident defign to protect the magazine from any further attempts . The whole value of the gunpowder and arms in the magazine , for any purpofe ...
... attack from an enemy . They alfo from this time encreafed the night patroles ; and fhewed an evident defign to protect the magazine from any further attempts . The whole value of the gunpowder and arms in the magazine , for any purpofe ...
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... attack was meditated against the un- happy people of that colony , and it was therefore their opinion that they fhould prepare for the pre- fervation of their ineftimable rights and privileges.- They concluded by ftrongly expreffing ...
... attack was meditated against the un- happy people of that colony , and it was therefore their opinion that they fhould prepare for the pre- fervation of their ineftimable rights and privileges.- They concluded by ftrongly expreffing ...
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... attack was begun . The fhips cut a way through the boats in the night , and began to cannonade the town in a furious ... attacked the fhips fo vigorously with their fmall arms , that they were obliged precipitately to quit their station ...
... attack was begun . The fhips cut a way through the boats in the night , and began to cannonade the town in a furious ... attacked the fhips fo vigorously with their fmall arms , that they were obliged precipitately to quit their station ...
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... attack . They boldly paffed the causeway , and marched up to the entrenchments with fixed bayonets , and with a coolness and intrepidity which excited both the astonishment and praife of their enemies ; - for they were not only expofed ...
... attack . They boldly paffed the causeway , and marched up to the entrenchments with fixed bayonets , and with a coolness and intrepidity which excited both the astonishment and praife of their enemies ; - for they were not only expofed ...
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... attack , when a violent cannon- ade from the Liverpool frigate , two floops of war , and the Governor's armed fhip the Dunmore , fecond- ed by parties of failors , who landed and fet fire to the neareft houfes , foon produced the ...
... attack , when a violent cannon- ade from the Liverpool frigate , two floops of war , and the Governor's armed fhip the Dunmore , fecond- ed by parties of failors , who landed and fet fire to the neareft houfes , foon produced the ...
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