The Pictorial Field-book of the Revolution ; Or, Illustrations, by Pen and Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence, Bind 2Harper & Bros., 1852 - 30 sider |
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Side 35
... four hundred men were ordered to embark in transports , rendezvous at Castle William , and , under the gallant Earl Percy , make an attack that night upon the rebel works . " Wash- ington was made acquainted with this movement , and ...
... four hundred men were ordered to embark in transports , rendezvous at Castle William , and , under the gallant Earl Percy , make an attack that night upon the rebel works . " Wash- ington was made acquainted with this movement , and ...
Side 35
... four in the Commons , and by seventy - eight to nineteen in the House of Lords . Eight peers protested . It became a law by royal assent on the 21st of December . Having determined to employ sufficient force to put down the rebellion ...
... four in the Commons , and by seventy - eight to nineteen in the House of Lords . Eight peers protested . It became a law by royal assent on the 21st of December . Having determined to employ sufficient force to put down the rebellion ...
Side 35
... four thousand and eighty - four ; the Prince of Hesse , six hundred and sixty - eight , and the Prince of Waldeck , six hundred and seventy ; making in all seventeen thousand five hundred and twenty - six soldiers , including the ...
... four thousand and eighty - four ; the Prince of Hesse , six hundred and sixty - eight , and the Prince of Waldeck , six hundred and seventy ; making in all seventeen thousand five hundred and twenty - six soldiers , including the ...
Side 55
... four frigates , then lying in the harbor of Boston , in the event of the evacuation of New - York or Charleston by the British . The Baron de Viomenil was ordered to accompany the troops as commander instead of Ro- chambeau . The latter ...
... four frigates , then lying in the harbor of Boston , in the event of the evacuation of New - York or Charleston by the British . The Baron de Viomenil was ordered to accompany the troops as commander instead of Ro- chambeau . The latter ...
Side 64
... four feet high . The external diameter is twenty - three feet . Governor Gibbs informed me that , on excavating at the base of one of the pillars , he found the soil about four feet deep , lying upon a stratum of hard rock , and that ...
... four feet high . The external diameter is twenty - three feet . Governor Gibbs informed me that , on excavating at the base of one of the pillars , he found the soil about four feet deep , lying upon a stratum of hard rock , and that ...
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Side 496 - No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us: they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains which the British ministry have been so long forging.
Side 497 - Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
Side 272 - Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions to cause others to be elected ; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise ; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Side 496 - ... we must fight! I repeat it, Sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms, and to the God of hosts, is all that is left us.
Side 496 - There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone: it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
Side 272 - He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitutions, and unacknowledged by our laws ; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation : For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us . For protecting them, by a mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states ; For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world...
Side 273 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
Side 273 - For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world; For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent; For depriving us in many cases of the benefits of Trial by Jury; For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offenses...
Side 280 - He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy, scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation.
Side 280 - He has refused, for a long time after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected ; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large, for their exercise, the state remaining, in the mean time, exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.