Library of Universal Literature: In Four Parts, Comprising Science, Biography, Fiction and the Great Orations, Volume 15P. F. Collier, 1900 |
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... sent for the officers , one by one , in private , and enlarged on the loss of character to the whole army that would result from intemperate resolutions . At the meeting , General Gates was called to the chair . Wash- ington rose and ...
... sent for the officers , one by one , in private , and enlarged on the loss of character to the whole army that would result from intemperate resolutions . At the meeting , General Gates was called to the chair . Wash- ington rose and ...
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... sent in a written message to the president and council , threat- ening military violence if their demands were not complied with in the course of twenty minutes . Though these menaces were directed against the State government ...
... sent in a written message to the president and council , threat- ening military violence if their demands were not complied with in the course of twenty minutes . Though these menaces were directed against the State government ...
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... sent to give Washington's advanced guard information of their retiring . Although Washington doubted the existence of any such plot as that which had been reported to the British com- mander , yet he took precautions accordingly . On ...
... sent to give Washington's advanced guard information of their retiring . Although Washington doubted the existence of any such plot as that which had been reported to the British com- mander , yet he took precautions accordingly . On ...
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... sent to him by Colonel Lee ( Light - horse Harry ) , the son of his " Low- land Beauty . " A diagram of the plan in which he had laid out his grounds still remains among his papers at Mount Vernon ; the places are marked on it for ...
... sent to him by Colonel Lee ( Light - horse Harry ) , the son of his " Low- land Beauty . " A diagram of the plan in which he had laid out his grounds still remains among his papers at Mount Vernon ; the places are marked on it for ...
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... sent to demand him , and that if the ladies refused to give him up he should be brought by force . Washington humored the joke and offered to head the party . He led it with great formality to the door of the * Greene to Colonel ...
... sent to demand him , and that if the ladies refused to give him up he should be brought by force . Washington humored the joke and offered to head the party . He led it with great formality to the door of the * Greene to Colonel ...
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