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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Page 34
... parties of failors , who landed and fet fire to the neareft houfes , foon produced the defired effect , and the whole town was reduced to afhes . There were at that time various accounts concerning the burning of Norfolk ; the royalifts ...
... parties of failors , who landed and fet fire to the neareft houfes , foon produced the defired effect , and the whole town was reduced to afhes . There were at that time various accounts concerning the burning of Norfolk ; the royalifts ...
Page 42
... parties , and it was never known , that either in the civil wars or in any foreign ones that Englishmen waged war with learning and religion . This fpecies of warfare was left to difgrace the prefent age , and to be handed down as a ...
... parties , and it was never known , that either in the civil wars or in any foreign ones that Englishmen waged war with learning and religion . This fpecies of warfare was left to difgrace the prefent age , and to be handed down as a ...
Page 49
... parties fond of their ease , to check the fpirit of enterprize , and to prevent the effusion of blood : fo that for near three months a great quiet prevailed . During this ftate of affairs , the American cruizers and privateers , though ...
... parties fond of their ease , to check the fpirit of enterprize , and to prevent the effusion of blood : fo that for near three months a great quiet prevailed . During this ftate of affairs , the American cruizers and privateers , though ...
Page 59
... had made him a rebel , but his on him as a faviour and deliverer . The policy of Bri- country looked up- What is the genu- ine character of the parties concerned , time and after ine A. D. 1776 . 59 穆 THE WAR IN AMERICA . And. ...
... had made him a rebel , but his on him as a faviour and deliverer . The policy of Bri- country looked up- What is the genu- ine character of the parties concerned , time and after ine A. D. 1776 . 59 穆 THE WAR IN AMERICA . And. ...
Page 60
... parties concerned , time and after ages will declare better than the prefent can do . Thus was the long contefted town of Boston at length given up , the colony of Maffachusetts - Bay freed from a war , and left at liberty to adopt ...
... parties concerned , time and after ages will declare better than the prefent can do . Thus was the long contefted town of Boston at length given up , the colony of Maffachusetts - Bay freed from a war , and left at liberty to adopt ...
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