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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... military laws , would have been an inftance of imprudence unworthy of any people of common fenfe . The Governor's general character , as a man of prudence and difcretion , was not fo remarkable as to tempt them to run fuch a rifk . They ...
... military laws , would have been an inftance of imprudence unworthy of any people of common fenfe . The Governor's general character , as a man of prudence and difcretion , was not fo remarkable as to tempt them to run fuch a rifk . They ...
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... military stores and implements that had been buried in the palace - garden and yards . This ferved to inflame them exceedingly , every man confidering it as if it had been a plot against himself in particular . In other refpects the ...
... military stores and implements that had been buried in the palace - garden and yards . This ferved to inflame them exceedingly , every man confidering it as if it had been a plot against himself in particular . In other refpects the ...
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... military ex- ercifes and difcipline , the remainder being obliged to pay their quotas in money towards the common de- fence . The limited time for which the folliers in the pro- vincial army before Bofton were inlifted , was near a ...
... military ex- ercifes and difcipline , the remainder being obliged to pay their quotas in money towards the common de- fence . The limited time for which the folliers in the pro- vincial army before Bofton were inlifted , was near a ...
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... military force , nothing affected them fo grievously , or was fo hard to remedy as gun- powder . For though they used the utmoft diligence in collecting nitre , and all the other parts of the manufacture , the refource from their ...
... military force , nothing affected them fo grievously , or was fo hard to remedy as gun- powder . For though they used the utmoft diligence in collecting nitre , and all the other parts of the manufacture , the refource from their ...
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... military ftores would fail , and falt provifions at laft grew fcarce.- The troops at Bunkers - hill fuffered great hardfhips , being obliged to lye in tents all the winter , under the driving dri ving fnows , and expofed to the almost ...
... military ftores would fail , and falt provifions at laft grew fcarce.- The troops at Bunkers - hill fuffered great hardfhips , being obliged to lye in tents all the winter , under the driving dri ving fnows , and expofed to the almost ...
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