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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... measures . What contributed much to incenfe and irritate to the highest pitch , was the haughtiness and fury of their Governor : A noble- man , of a furious temper , and infufferable pride , who being of an arbitrary difpofition , was ...
... measures . What contributed much to incenfe and irritate to the highest pitch , was the haughtiness and fury of their Governor : A noble- man , of a furious temper , and infufferable pride , who being of an arbitrary difpofition , was ...
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... measures , as plainly hinted his jea- loufy of the loyalty of the Virginians , and intimated by palpable fignatures that he miftrufted them , and in- tended to behave towards them as a people really difaffected to his Majesty's ...
... measures , as plainly hinted his jea- loufy of the loyalty of the Virginians , and intimated by palpable fignatures that he miftrufted them , and in- tended to behave towards them as a people really difaffected to his Majesty's ...
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... measures for arraying the militia ; but to fupply the defects in that law in some measure , to remedy which it was pretend- ed all the fubfequent ones had been paffed , they re- commended to each county to raife a company of vo ...
... measures for arraying the militia ; but to fupply the defects in that law in some measure , to remedy which it was pretend- ed all the fubfequent ones had been paffed , they re- commended to each county to raife a company of vo ...
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... , and difturbance which this measure excited . -The quantity of powder removed amounted only to fifteen half barrels , containing fifty pounds each , qf of a very ordinary fort , and the remaining stock A. D. 1776 . 7 THE WAR IN AMERICA .
... , and difturbance which this measure excited . -The quantity of powder removed amounted only to fifteen half barrels , containing fifty pounds each , qf of a very ordinary fort , and the remaining stock A. D. 1776 . 7 THE WAR IN AMERICA .
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... measure , as they would have used all poffible means to have removed every cause of dif quietude they feared that his removal from the feat of government would be a means of increasin the uneafinefs which unhappily prevailed among the ...
... measure , as they would have used all poffible means to have removed every cause of dif quietude they feared that his removal from the feat of government would be a means of increasin the uneafinefs which unhappily prevailed among the ...
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