Braddock: A Story of the French and Indian WarsFunk & Wagnall's Company, 1893 - 470 pages |
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Page iii
... regulars at Braddock's bloody defeat on the Monongahela . The comparison was favorable to the Americans , and , while it gave them self - reliance , the royalists and officers of the regular army changed their for- mer contempt to ...
... regulars at Braddock's bloody defeat on the Monongahela . The comparison was favorable to the Americans , and , while it gave them self - reliance , the royalists and officers of the regular army changed their for- mer contempt to ...
Page iv
... regulars free " on the Americans was only the be- ginning of a series of attempts at oppression which ended with the stamp act , the tea tax and the Boston Port Bill . This story is designed to give all the principal incidents in the ...
... regulars free " on the Americans was only the be- ginning of a series of attempts at oppression which ended with the stamp act , the tea tax and the Boston Port Bill . This story is designed to give all the principal incidents in the ...
Page 208
... regulars and a small train of artillery from a neighboring garri- son . The French at Beau - Sejour and other mili- tary posts on the peninsula were ignorant of the hostile preparations of the two governments , until the appearance of ...
... regulars and a small train of artillery from a neighboring garri- son . The French at Beau - Sejour and other mili- tary posts on the peninsula were ignorant of the hostile preparations of the two governments , until the appearance of ...
Page 277
... regulars will show you how to fight those French and barbarians . " Noah Stevens felt the insult of the brutal officer most keenly . He curbed his rising wrath and an- swered : " General Braddock , you may find it to your ad- vantage to ...
... regulars will show you how to fight those French and barbarians . " Noah Stevens felt the insult of the brutal officer most keenly . He curbed his rising wrath and an- swered : " General Braddock , you may find it to your ad- vantage to ...
Page 279
... I was going to say to you that we care not how they fight . They have never met British regulars . " 66 They have met the provincial troops — the Vir- ginia militia . " " The Virginia militia , " and the expression of BRADDOCK . 279.
... I was going to say to you that we care not how they fight . They have never met British regulars . " 66 They have met the provincial troops — the Vir- ginia militia . " " The Virginia militia , " and the expression of BRADDOCK . 279.
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