The History of the Rise, Progress, and Establishment, of the Independence of the United States of America: Including an Account of the Late War; and of the Thirteen Colonies, from Their Origin to that Period, כרך 4author, 1788 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 37
עמוד 20
... engaged in the fervice , notwithstanding its being the depth of winter , and carried with him a letter of January the 5th , wherein his excellency faid- " It is vain to think an army can be kept together much longer , under fuch a ...
... engaged in the fervice , notwithstanding its being the depth of winter , and carried with him a letter of January the 5th , wherein his excellency faid- " It is vain to think an army can be kept together much longer , under fuch a ...
עמוד 26
... engaged in the noble cause of freedom and the United States , I devoted my- felf entirely to the service of obtaining the great end of their union . That I have been once unfortunate is my great mortification ; but let the event of my ...
... engaged in the noble cause of freedom and the United States , I devoted my- felf entirely to the service of obtaining the great end of their union . That I have been once unfortunate is my great mortification ; but let the event of my ...
עמוד 31
... engaged in ftimulating his countrymen in the lower parts of South Carolina ; in keeping the tories in awe ; in watching the enemy at their posts of Charlestown , George - town , and neighbouring places ; and in gaining intelligence ...
... engaged in ftimulating his countrymen in the lower parts of South Carolina ; in keeping the tories in awe ; in watching the enemy at their posts of Charlestown , George - town , and neighbouring places ; and in gaining intelligence ...
עמוד 34
... engaged the second line . The continentals , after an obftinate conflict , were compelled to retreat to the cavalry . Col. Ogilvie , with his troop of forty men , had been ordered to charge the right flank of the Americans , and was engaged ...
... engaged the second line . The continentals , after an obftinate conflict , were compelled to retreat to the cavalry . Col. Ogilvie , with his troop of forty men , had been ordered to charge the right flank of the Americans , and was engaged ...
עמוד 35
... engaged , fled through the woods with the utmost precipitation , bearing down fuch officers as oppofed their flight ; and the cannon were foon feized by the Americans , the detachment from the train being either killed or wounded in ...
... engaged , fled through the woods with the utmost precipitation , bearing down fuch officers as oppofed their flight ; and the cannon were foon feized by the Americans , the detachment from the train being either killed or wounded in ...
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
addrefs affembled againſt alfo American anſwer army arrived attack befide Bofton Britain Britiſh buſineſs capt Carolina Charleſtown clofe command commiffioners confequence confiderable confifted conftitution congrefs convoy count de Graffe defign diſtance enemy eſtabliſhed expreffed fafe faid fame fecured fent fervice feven feveral fhall fhips fhould fide fire firſt fituation fleet foldiers fome foon force fpirit French frigates ftate ftores fubject fuccefs fuch fuffered fuperiority fupply fupport furrender garrifon Gibraltar greateſt Greene guns himſelf honor houfe houſe intereft iſland laft laſt letter lieut lofs lord Cornwallis lord Rawdon majefty marched marquis marquis de Bouille meaſures militia minifter moft moſt muſt neceffary notwithſtanding occafion officers paffed peace perfon prefent Prefident prifoners propofed provifions purpoſe refolved refpecting Repreſentatives ſeveral ſhall ſhips Sir Samuel Hood South Carolina Spaniſh ſtate thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe tion treaty troops United uſed veffels Virginia Waſhington Weft wounded
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 361 - Lawrence from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River; thence down along the middle of that river to the forty-fifth degree of north latitude...
עמוד 260 - Britain; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.
עמוד 362 - Lawrence ; comprehending all islands within twenty leagues of any part of the shores of the United States, and lying between lines to be drawn due east from the points where the aforesaid boundaries between Nova Scotia on the one part and East Florida on the other, shall respectively touch the Bay of Fundy and the Atlantic Ocean ; excepting such islands as now are, or heretofore have been, within the limits of the said province of Nova Scotia.
עמוד 365 - ... his Britannic Majesty shall, with all convenient speed, and without causing any destruction, or carrying away any negroes or other property of the American inhabitants...
עמוד 419 - Almighty God hath created the mind free ; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the Holy author of our religion...
עמוד 361 - Cataraquy; thence along the middle of said river into Lake Ontario; through the middle of said lake until it strikes the communication by water between that lake and Lake Erie; thence along the middle of said communication into Lake Erie...
עמוד 420 - ... to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his powers into the field of opinion, and to restrain the profession or propagation of principles on supposition of their ill tendency, is a dangerous fallacy, which at once destroys all religious liberty, because he being of course judge of that tendency will make his opinions the rule of judgment, and approve or condemn the sentiments of others only as they shall square with or differ from his own; that it is time enough for the rightful purposes of...
עמוד 421 - ... yet we are free to declare, and do declare, that the rights hereby asserted are of the natural rights of mankind, and that if any act shall be hereafter passed to repeal the present, or to narrow its operation, such act will be an infringement of natural right.
עמוד 361 - St. Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River...
עמוד 362 - Cauihouche ; thence along the middle thereof to its junction with the Flint river; thence straight to the head of St. Mary's river; and thence down along the middle of St. Mary's river to the Atlantic ocean.