Selections from American Authors: A Reading Book for School and Home. Franklin, Adams, Cooper, LongfellowSamuel Eliot Taintor Brothers, Merrill & Company, 1879 - 410 pages |
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Page 9
... Hill , digging intrench- ments upon the Neck , placing cannon there , encamp- ing a regiment there , throwing up breast works , etc. The people are much alarmed , and the selectmen have waited upon him in consequence of it . The County ...
... Hill , digging intrench- ments upon the Neck , placing cannon there , encamp- ing a regiment there , throwing up breast works , etc. The people are much alarmed , and the selectmen have waited upon him in consequence of it . The County ...
Page 22
... Hill . It was difficult to tell their designs ; some supposed they were coming to Germantown , others to Weymouth ; people , women , children , from the iron - works , came flocking down this way ; every woman and child driven off from ...
... Hill . It was difficult to tell their designs ; some supposed they were coming to Germantown , others to Weymouth ; people , women , children , from the iron - works , came flocking down this way ; every woman and child driven off from ...
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... Hill , Saturday morning about three o'clock , and has not ceased yet , and it is now three o'clock Sab- bath afternoon . It is expected they will come out over the Neck to- night , and a dreadful battle must ensue . Almighty God , cover ...
... Hill , Saturday morning about three o'clock , and has not ceased yet , and it is now three o'clock Sab- bath afternoon . It is expected they will come out over the Neck to- night , and a dreadful battle must ensue . Almighty God , cover ...
Page 35
... Hill and Dorchester Point . Three colonels wounded , Gardner mortally . We wait to hear more particulars . Our hopes and fears are alternately very strong . If there is any truth in this account , you must be in great confusion . God Al ...
... Hill and Dorchester Point . Three colonels wounded , Gardner mortally . We wait to hear more particulars . Our hopes and fears are alternately very strong . If there is any truth in this account , you must be in great confusion . God Al ...
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... Hill , and from the ships ; the town in flames all around them , and the heat from the flames so intense as scarcely to be borne ; the day one of the hottest we have had this season , and the wind blowing the smoke in their faces ...
... Hill , and from the ships ; the town in flames all around them , and the heat from the flames so intense as scarcely to be borne ; the day one of the hottest we have had this season , and the wind blowing the smoke in their faces ...
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