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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... vessels , and other property valued at half a million sterling . Clinton , however , very judiciously did not divide his army by any permanent establishment.t Immediately on their return to New York , the fleet and army were employed in ...
... vessels , and other property valued at half a million sterling . Clinton , however , very judiciously did not divide his army by any permanent establishment.t Immediately on their return to New York , the fleet and army were employed in ...
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... vessels . At Fairfield and Norwalk , a greater resistance was encountered ; and both these places were nearly reduced to ashes . In apology it is said , that the people had fired from the windows , and that they placed an undue ...
... vessels . At Fairfield and Norwalk , a greater resistance was encountered ; and both these places were nearly reduced to ashes . In apology it is said , that the people had fired from the windows , and that they placed an undue ...
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... vessels was entirely destroyed . The men escaped on shore , but had to penetrate through a long extent of desert , in which many perished . This blow was slightly compensated by the surprise of Powles Hook , a fort immediately opposite ...
... vessels was entirely destroyed . The men escaped on shore , but had to penetrate through a long extent of desert , in which many perished . This blow was slightly compensated by the surprise of Powles Hook , a fort immediately opposite ...
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... vessels were wrecked , and nearly all the horses perished . He exerted him- self actively to repair these losses ; and by the middle of February had re - embarked and landed on St John's Island , near Charleston . Some time was spent in ...
... vessels were wrecked , and nearly all the horses perished . He exerted him- self actively to repair these losses ; and by the middle of February had re - embarked and landed on St John's Island , near Charleston . Some time was spent in ...
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... vessels sufficient to trans- port over his troops . This was indeed the case at the ferry immediately before him ; but by an able move- ment he led his army twenty miles downward to two others , sending a detachment to bring the boats ...
... vessels sufficient to trans- port over his troops . This was indeed the case at the ferry immediately before him ; but by an able move- ment he led his army twenty miles downward to two others , sending a detachment to bring the boats ...
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