The United States of America: Their History from the Earliest Period; Their Industry, Commerce, Banking Transactions, and National Works; Their Institutions and Character, Political, Social, and Literary: with a Survey of the Territory, and Remarks on the Prospects and Plans of Emigrants, Band 2Oliver & Boyd, 1844 |
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... Raised - Siege of Charleston - Surrender- British overrun the Carolinas - Defeat of Gates , and Death of Ferguson - Return of Cornwallis - Greene succeeds to the Command - Battle of Cowpens - Retreat of the Ame- ricans They return ...
... Raised - Siege of Charleston - Surrender- British overrun the Carolinas - Defeat of Gates , and Death of Ferguson - Return of Cornwallis - Greene succeeds to the Command - Battle of Cowpens - Retreat of the Ame- ricans They return ...
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... raised in a few weeks to 27,000 , it was mostly by militia , numbers of whom were soon on the sick - list . * Meantime , General Howe was engaged in conveying his army to the scene of action . The abrupt departure from Boston had ...
... raised in a few weeks to 27,000 , it was mostly by militia , numbers of whom were soon on the sick - list . * Meantime , General Howe was engaged in conveying his army to the scene of action . The abrupt departure from Boston had ...
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... raise first eighty - eight , and then sixteen more regular battalions ; to give higher bounties and pay ; and to act in other respects for six months as a military dictator . The men , however , were not yet raised , and present ...
... raise first eighty - eight , and then sixteen more regular battalions ; to give higher bounties and pay ; and to act in other respects for six months as a military dictator . The men , however , were not yet raised , and present ...
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... raising and organizing troops which the exigency of affairs had at length extorted from congress . Levies , however , went on very slowly , through the discouraging state of the cause and the rigour of the season ; so that , at the open ...
... raising and organizing troops which the exigency of affairs had at length extorted from congress . Levies , however , went on very slowly , through the discouraging state of the cause and the rigour of the season ; so that , at the open ...
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... raised to 14,000 , - not the most numerous , but the most efficient of any he had hitherto commanded . He determined , therefore , to risk a battle in defence of Philadelphia , though conscious that its issue must be very doubtful ; but ...
... raised to 14,000 , - not the most numerous , but the most efficient of any he had hitherto commanded . He determined , therefore , to risk a battle in defence of Philadelphia , though conscious that its issue must be very doubtful ; but ...
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