A History of the American Revolution; Comprehending All the Principal Events Both in the Field and in the Cabinet, المجلد 2F. Betts, 1822 |
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... Commander in Chief of the British army at this time , instead of General Howe , who seems at all times to have labour- ed under some strange infatuation in his conduct of the war , the revolution would in all probability have closed ...
... Commander in Chief of the British army at this time , instead of General Howe , who seems at all times to have labour- ed under some strange infatuation in his conduct of the war , the revolution would in all probability have closed ...
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... Commander in Chief which he sent against General M'Dougall at Peekskill , and which ended only in the destruction of a quantity of stores ,. he would have given a blow to the American cause , from which it could not soon have recovered ...
... Commander in Chief which he sent against General M'Dougall at Peekskill , and which ended only in the destruction of a quantity of stores ,. he would have given a blow to the American cause , from which it could not soon have recovered ...
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... Commander in Chief . So late as the 21st of May , it appears that Washington's safety was still dependent on the chance of Sir William's obtaining correct intelligence . " Nothing " says he , in a letter of that date , " but a good face ...
... Commander in Chief . So late as the 21st of May , it appears that Washington's safety was still dependent on the chance of Sir William's obtaining correct intelligence . " Nothing " says he , in a letter of that date , " but a good face ...
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... command of the northern army on the 19th of August at Van Schaick's Island , where we shall leave him for the present , to attend to the Commander in Chief . When General Sir William Howe retired from the Jerseys , it has been seen that ...
... command of the northern army on the 19th of August at Van Schaick's Island , where we shall leave him for the present , to attend to the Commander in Chief . When General Sir William Howe retired from the Jerseys , it has been seen that ...
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... command of General Knyphausen . The latter marched directly to Chadsford , on the hill near which General Maxwell was ... Commander in Chief , who , suppo- sing that he would have time to cripple the division of General Knyphausen , and ...
... command of General Knyphausen . The latter marched directly to Chadsford , on the hill near which General Maxwell was ... Commander in Chief , who , suppo- sing that he would have time to cripple the division of General Knyphausen , and ...
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