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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... grounds , with a variety of arguments , of the fame nature with thofe that have been already flated ; and they ultimately declared , that as it only changed the form of expreffion , without leffening its burthen , they could not clofe ...
... grounds , with a variety of arguments , of the fame nature with thofe that have been already flated ; and they ultimately declared , that as it only changed the form of expreffion , without leffening its burthen , they could not clofe ...
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... Burgeffes to his Excel- lency . Lord Dunmore perfifted to the objections he had made to the bill ; and faid that the well ground- ed ed cause he had for believing his perfon not fafe A. D. 1776 . 21 THE WARIN AMERICA .
... Burgeffes to his Excel- lency . Lord Dunmore perfifted to the objections he had made to the bill ; and faid that the well ground- ed ed cause he had for believing his perfon not fafe A. D. 1776 . 21 THE WARIN AMERICA .
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... ground of his progrefs he was determined though he fhould be obliged for the prefent to relinquish , not to abandon his hopes , nor entirely to lofe fight of the country which he had governed . Being joined with those friends of ...
... ground of his progrefs he was determined though he fhould be obliged for the prefent to relinquish , not to abandon his hopes , nor entirely to lofe fight of the country which he had governed . Being joined with those friends of ...
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... grounds to conjecture what might be spared out of the abundance of a plentiful harvest , it was refolved by the congrefs that if the late reftraining laws were not repealed within fix months from the 20th of July , on which they ...
... grounds to conjecture what might be spared out of the abundance of a plentiful harvest , it was refolved by the congrefs that if the late reftraining laws were not repealed within fix months from the 20th of July , on which they ...
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... colours from a plain red ground which they had hitherto ufed , to a flag with thirteen ftripes , as a fymbol of the union and number of the colonies . Some 1 2 Engraved for Murrays History of the American War 48 A. D. 1776 HISTORY OF.
... colours from a plain red ground which they had hitherto ufed , to a flag with thirteen ftripes , as a fymbol of the union and number of the colonies . Some 1 2 Engraved for Murrays History of the American War 48 A. D. 1776 HISTORY OF.
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