History of the English People, Bind 8Macmillan, 1896 |
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Side 9
... attacked the Government in letters , which , rancorous and unscrupulous as was their tone , gave a new power to the literature of the Press by their clearness and terseness of statement , the finish of their style , and the terrible ...
... attacked the Government in letters , which , rancorous and unscrupulous as was their tone , gave a new power to the literature of the Press by their clearness and terseness of statement , the finish of their style , and the terrible ...
Side 15
... attack of Chatham at the opening of 1770 had completed the ruin of the ministry . Those of his adherents who still clung to it , Lord Camden , the Chancellor , Lord Granby , the Commander - in - Chief , Dunning , the Solicitor- General ...
... attack of Chatham at the opening of 1770 had completed the ruin of the ministry . Those of his adherents who still clung to it , Lord Camden , the Chancellor , Lord Granby , the Commander - in - Chief , Dunning , the Solicitor- General ...
Side 22
... attack them , seized a neck of ground which joins Boston to the mainland ; and though on the 17th of June they were driven from the heights of Bunker's Hill which commanded the town , it was The Independ- ence of America . 1767-1782 ...
... attack them , seized a neck of ground which joins Boston to the mainland ; and though on the 17th of June they were driven from the heights of Bunker's Hill which commanded the town , it was The Independ- ence of America . 1767-1782 ...
Side 23
... attack rolled back baffled down the hill - side . But a far truer courage was shown in the stubborn endurance with which Washington's raw militiamen , who gradually dwindled from sixteen thousand to ten , ill - fed , ill - armed , and ...
... attack rolled back baffled down the hill - side . But a far truer courage was shown in the stubborn endurance with which Washington's raw militiamen , who gradually dwindled from sixteen thousand to ten , ill - fed , ill - armed , and ...
Side 25
... attack on his victors to retire into winter quarters on the banks of the Schuylkill , where the unconquerable resolve with which he nerved his handful of beaten and half - starved troops to face Howe's army in their camp at Valley Forge ...
... attack on his victors to retire into winter quarters on the banks of the Schuylkill , where the unconquerable resolve with which he nerved his handful of beaten and half - starved troops to face Howe's army in their camp at Valley Forge ...
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