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Such was our situation and condition at fort Lee on the morning of the 20th of November , when an officer arrived with information , that the enemy with 200 boats had landed about feven or eight miles above : Major General Green ...
Such was our situation and condition at fort Lee on the morning of the 20th of November , when an officer arrived with information , that the enemy with 200 boats had landed about feven or eight miles above : Major General Green ...
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All their wishes were one , which was , that the country would turn out and help them to drive the enemy back . Voltaire has remarked , that king William never appeared to full advantage but in difficulties and in action ; the fame ...
All their wishes were one , which was , that the country would turn out and help them to drive the enemy back . Voltaire has remarked , that king William never appeared to full advantage but in difficulties and in action ; the fame ...
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sary retaliation on decrees of her enemy , proclaiming a general blockade of the British isles , at a time when the naval force of that enemy dared not to issue from his own ports She was reminded , without effect , that her own prior ...
sary retaliation on decrees of her enemy , proclaiming a general blockade of the British isles , at a time when the naval force of that enemy dared not to issue from his own ports She was reminded , without effect , that her own prior ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | 12 Americans Speak |
| Editor | John Edwin Pomfret |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Huntington Library, 1954 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 24 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 183 pages |
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