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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... taken prisoner with all his detachment . The entire loss is stated at upwards of 3000 , including 1100 prisoners , among whom was General Sullivan . That of the British was only 367 killed , wounded , and taken . Washington , from ...
... taken prisoner with all his detachment . The entire loss is stated at upwards of 3000 , including 1100 prisoners , among whom was General Sullivan . That of the British was only 367 killed , wounded , and taken . Washington , from ...
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... taken the trouble to read his despatches , they would have found that he had arranged another plan , leading him in quite a different direction . This was to march up the Hudson to Albany , where he would meet Burgoyne from Canada , and ...
... taken the trouble to read his despatches , they would have found that he had arranged another plan , leading him in quite a different direction . This was to march up the Hudson to Albany , where he would meet Burgoyne from Canada , and ...
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... 614-628 . Howe's Narrative , p . 60 . Cornwallis ' Evidence in Parl . Register , vol . xiii . p . 5 . + Gordon , vol . ii . pp . 415 , 457-460 . ings were taken . * Now , Howe and Cornwallis 26 FROM THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.
... 614-628 . Howe's Narrative , p . 60 . Cornwallis ' Evidence in Parl . Register , vol . xiii . p . 5 . + Gordon , vol . ii . pp . 415 , 457-460 . ings were taken . * Now , Howe and Cornwallis 26 FROM THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.
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... taken . * Now , Howe and Cornwallis were men of strict honour and character , whose testimony must rank decidedly above that of local and party journals . The report received indeed , to a limited extent , the high sanction of ...
... taken . * Now , Howe and Cornwallis were men of strict honour and character , whose testimony must rank decidedly above that of local and party journals . The report received indeed , to a limited extent , the high sanction of ...
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... taken up a position at Whitemarsh , about fourteen miles from Philadelphia , which he considered so strong , that his letters express a desire of being there * Adolphus , vol . ii . p . 513. Sparks , vol . i . pp . 257 , 258 . attacked ...
... taken up a position at Whitemarsh , about fourteen miles from Philadelphia , which he considered so strong , that his letters express a desire of being there * Adolphus , vol . ii . p . 513. Sparks , vol . i . pp . 257 , 258 . attacked ...
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