Braddock: A Story of the French and Indian WarsFunk & Wagnall's Company, 1893 - 470 pages |
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... early morning , December 25th , 1702 , and a stiff breeze was driving a saucy New England privateer along at the rate of ten knots an hour . The officers and sailors usually made a sort of holiday of this sacred day . After breakfast it ...
... early morning , December 25th , 1702 , and a stiff breeze was driving a saucy New England privateer along at the rate of ten knots an hour . The officers and sailors usually made a sort of holiday of this sacred day . After breakfast it ...
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... early life , had helped to lay the founda- tion of Jamestown , and was an intimate friend of Captain John Smith . George had heard so many stories of this worthy ancestor , that he determined to emulate him on the sea . " Elmer , is it ...
... early life , had helped to lay the founda- tion of Jamestown , and was an intimate friend of Captain John Smith . George had heard so many stories of this worthy ancestor , that he determined to emulate him on the sea . " Elmer , is it ...
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... French domain on the east . Recruits were enlisted for the campaign , and , early in June of the above Colonel Marsh , with a thousand men , sailed year , from Nantucket , under convoy of a British war- ship END OF QUEEN ANNE'S WAR . 51.
... French domain on the east . Recruits were enlisted for the campaign , and , early in June of the above Colonel Marsh , with a thousand men , sailed year , from Nantucket , under convoy of a British war- ship END OF QUEEN ANNE'S WAR . 51.
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... early in September anchored before Port Royal . A few cannon shots were exchanged , some troops were landed and began to invest the place , when , on the 13th of October , it was surrendered to the English , and the name of the town and ...
... early in September anchored before Port Royal . A few cannon shots were exchanged , some troops were landed and began to invest the place , when , on the 13th of October , it was surrendered to the English , and the name of the town and ...
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... early existence were in sympathy with each other . This sympathy increased as did their interests , until to be an English - American was to insure friendship from Maine to the southern bor- ders of South Carolinia . In the southern ...
... early existence were in sympathy with each other . This sympathy increased as did their interests , until to be an English - American was to insure friendship from Maine to the southern bor- ders of South Carolinia . In the southern ...
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