A Military Journal During the American Revolutionary War: From 1775 to 1783Cottons & Barnard, 1827 - 487 من الصفحات |
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... officers and men are seen to fall , " their ranks are thinned ; see the ground covered with the slain ; see those wounded officers borne off the field . " The conflict be- comes close , and such are the fatal effects of the incessant ...
... officers and men are seen to fall , " their ranks are thinned ; see the ground covered with the slain ; see those wounded officers borne off the field . " The conflict be- comes close , and such are the fatal effects of the incessant ...
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... officers , and the flower of the British grenadiers and light infantry . These two corps , at the moment of their first onset , lost three fourths of their number ; of one company five , and of an- other , fourteen only escaped . The ...
... officers , and the flower of the British grenadiers and light infantry . These two corps , at the moment of their first onset , lost three fourths of their number ; of one company five , and of an- other , fourteen only escaped . The ...
الصفحة 38
... officers who are the subjects of it . Some British officers , soon after General Gage arrived at Boston , while walking on Beacon Hill in the evening , were frightened by noises in the air , which they took to be the whizzing of bullets ...
... officers who are the subjects of it . Some British officers , soon after General Gage arrived at Boston , while walking on Beacon Hill in the evening , were frightened by noises in the air , which they took to be the whizzing of bullets ...
الصفحة 39
... officers and tories in Boston , would afford matter for the most serious consideration , and effectually check every emotion bordering on levity and amusement . We find however that they do not deny themselves balls and theatrical ...
... officers and tories in Boston , would afford matter for the most serious consideration , and effectually check every emotion bordering on levity and amusement . We find however that they do not deny themselves balls and theatrical ...
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... officers , that Mrs. Murray saved this part of the American army . I have collected from the preceding pages of my Journal some observations relative to the formation and character of our army . After the battle at Lexington , such was ...
... officers , that Mrs. Murray saved this part of the American army . I have collected from the preceding pages of my Journal some observations relative to the formation and character of our army . After the battle at Lexington , such was ...
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الصفحة 4 - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States...
الصفحة 322 - A country willing to redress your wrongs, cherish your worth, and reward your services ? A country courting your return to private life, with tears of gratitude and smiles of admiration, longing to divide with you that independency which your gallantry has given, and those riches which your wounds have preserved ? Is this the case ? Or is it rather a country, that tramples upon your rights, disdains your cries, and insults your distresses...
الصفحة 134 - Above all, bring forward your armies into the field. Trust not to appearances of peace or safety. Be assured that, unless you persevere, you will be exposed to every species of barbarity. But, if you exert the means of defence which God and nature have given you, the time will soon arrive when every man shall sit under his own vine and under his own fig-tree, and there shall be none to make him afraid.
الصفحة 326 - ... common country; as I have never left your side one moment, but when called from you on public duty; as I have been the constant companion and witness of your distresses, and not among the last to feel and acknowledge your merits; as I have ever considered my own military reputation as inseparably connected with that of the army ; as my heart has ever expanded with joy when I have heard its praises, and my indignation has arisen when the mouth of detraction has been opened against it, it can scarcely...
الصفحة 343 - Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of action; and, bidding an affectionate farewell to this august body, under whose orders I have long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life.
الصفحة 318 - An incessant attention to preserve inviolate those exalted rights and liberties of human nature for which they have fought and bled, and without which the high rank of a rational being is a curse instead of a blessing.
الصفحة 450 - heaven has been determined to save your country ; or a weak General and bad Counsellors would have ruined it ; I am, sir, &.c.
الصفحة 327 - My God ! what can this writer have in view by recommending such measures. Can he be a friend to the army? Can he be a friend to this country? Rather is he not an insidious foe : some emissary, perhaps, from New York, plotting the ruin of both, by sowing the seeds of discord and separation between the civil and military powers of the continent?
الصفحة 52 - ... that he should absolutely decline any letter directed to him as a private person, when it related to his public station.
الصفحة 322 - To be tame and unprovoked when injuries press hard on you, is more than weakness ; but to look up for kinder usage, without one manly effort of your own, would fix your character, and show the world how richly you deserve those chains you broke. To guard against this evil, let us take a review of the ground on which we now stand, and thence carry our thoughts forward for a moment, into the unexplored field of experiment.