Reminiscences of Gen'l Samuel B. Webb of the Revolutionary ArmyGlobe Stationery and Printing Company, 1880 - 402 pagine |
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... , is a Gentleman ; my station will call me to be much with him . He is very obliging to me ; and I doubt not , will do me any service in his power . I should have wrote you a very particular account of the late Battle , 10.
... , is a Gentleman ; my station will call me to be much with him . He is very obliging to me ; and I doubt not , will do me any service in his power . I should have wrote you a very particular account of the late Battle , 10.
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... doubt not , will procure him the fa- tiguing Berth . I have received many friendly services from him . I wish to add many particulars , but the Express waits . Capt . Chester is in a fair way to be appointed a Brigade Major . We have ...
... doubt not , will procure him the fa- tiguing Berth . I have received many friendly services from him . I wish to add many particulars , but the Express waits . Capt . Chester is in a fair way to be appointed a Brigade Major . We have ...
Pagina 14
... doubt not Burgoyne writes thus . so as hereafter to say , that he made us generous offers , with a view to compromise matters . He is as cunning and subtle as the Devil himself ; and writes as if he was on the right side of the question ...
... doubt not Burgoyne writes thus . so as hereafter to say , that he made us generous offers , with a view to compromise matters . He is as cunning and subtle as the Devil himself ; and writes as if he was on the right side of the question ...
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... doubt on this head . I have nothing new worth sending so far . I sent you a Book ; hope you received it . Write me particularly by the next post , which will encourage me to continue more at large a Course of Letters consequent on what ...
... doubt on this head . I have nothing new worth sending so far . I sent you a Book ; hope you received it . Write me particularly by the next post , which will encourage me to continue more at large a Course of Letters consequent on what ...
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... doubts or fears before . I must own New England has fewer Tories than I think Jer- sey or Pennsylvania has - yet we have some . Good God ! has his Excellency met with any Misfortune ? My Blood chills at the very Reflection . Heaven ...
... doubts or fears before . I must own New England has fewer Tories than I think Jer- sey or Pennsylvania has - yet we have some . Good God ! has his Excellency met with any Misfortune ? My Blood chills at the very Reflection . Heaven ...
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Pagina 52 - Can you then consent to be the only sufferers by this revolution, and retiring from the field, grow old in poverty, wretchedness and contempt ? Can you consent to wade through the vile mire of dependency, and owe the miserable remnant of that life to charity, which has hitherto been spent in honor...
Pagina 399 - Name of the Council Established at Plymouth in the County of Devon, for the Planting, Ruling, Ordering and Governing of New England in America...
Pagina 53 - ... it may drive you from the field; that the wound, often irritated and never healed, may at length become incurable; and that the slightest mark of indignity from Congress...
Pagina 79 - France, on certain points, which, with his permission, you would mention, such as whether if the Colonies should be forced to form themselves into an independent state, France would probably acknowled[g]e them as such, receive their ambassadors, enter into any treaty or alliance with them, for commerce or defence, or both?
Pagina 52 - If this then be your treatment, while the swords you wear are necessary for the defence of America, what have you to expect from peace, when your voice shall sink, and your strength dissipate by division ; when those very swords, the instruments and companions of your glory, shall be taken from your sides, and no remaining mark of military distinction left but your wants, infirmities, and scars...
Pagina 38 - The general hopes," said he in his orders, " that this important event will serve as a fresh incentive to every officer and soldier to act with fidelity and courage, as knowing that now the peace and safety of his country depend, under God, solely on the success of our arms ; and that he is now in the service of a state, possessed of sufficient power to reward his merit and advance him to the highest honors of a free country.
Pagina 52 - After a pursuit of seven long years, the object for which we set out is at length brought within our reach. Yes, my friends, that suffering courage of yours was active once ; it has conducted the United States of America through a doubtful and bloody war ; it has placed her in the chair of independency, and peace returns again to bless — whom?
Pagina 53 - But let it represent, also, that should they comply with the request of your late memorial, it would make you more happy and them more respectable ; that, while...
Pagina 53 - Change the milk-andwater style of your last memorial. Assume a bolder tone, decent but lively, spirited and determined, and suspect the man who would advise to more moderation and longer forbearance.
Pagina 39 - ... hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their houses and farms are to be pillaged and destroyed, and themselves consigned to a state of wretchedness from which no human efforts will deliver them.