Heroes of the Army in AmericaJ.B. Lippincott, 1919 - 346 pages |
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... French and Indian War began , -fighting with the Indians , the French , and the Spaniards , and Americans of valor and mili- tary genius had made their mark in battle . But these . were desultory fights , with hastily collected forces ...
... French and Indian War began , -fighting with the Indians , the French , and the Spaniards , and Americans of valor and mili- tary genius had made their mark in battle . But these . were desultory fights , with hastily collected forces ...
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... French alike had their eyes on the rich Ohio Valley , and when the French began to come down from Canada and build forts on the streams south of Lake Erie , Governor Din- widdie of Virginia selected the young surveyor , then twenty ...
... French alike had their eyes on the rich Ohio Valley , and when the French began to come down from Canada and build forts on the streams south of Lake Erie , Governor Din- widdie of Virginia selected the young surveyor , then twenty ...
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... French at a place called the Great Meadows , shots were fired and the leader of the French was killed . That , as we have said , was the first shot in the first important American war , a conflict which was to last for seven years , and ...
... French at a place called the Great Meadows , shots were fired and the leader of the French was killed . That , as we have said , was the first shot in the first important American war , a conflict which was to last for seven years , and ...
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... French had built at the Forks of the Ohio . As he approached the fort his men were drawn out in a long straggling line . Washington advised caution , but Braddock was not to be taught by a colonel of militia . Suddenly , from the ...
... French had built at the Forks of the Ohio . As he approached the fort his men were drawn out in a long straggling line . Washington advised caution , but Braddock was not to be taught by a colonel of militia . Suddenly , from the ...
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... French had entered into alliance with the Americans and promised to send a fleet and army to their support . When the next summer came the British , fearing that a French fleet would come up the Delaware , left Philadelphia and marched ...
... French had entered into alliance with the Americans and promised to send a fleet and army to their support . When the next summer came the British , fearing that a French fleet would come up the Delaware , left Philadelphia and marched ...
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Page 153 - If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you, or to any other persons in Washington. " You have done your best to sacrifice this army.
Page 186 - I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton.
Page 29 - Edmund Palmer, an officer in the enemy's service, was taken as a spy lurking within our lines ; he has been tried as a spy, condemned as a spy, and shall be executed as a spy ; and the flag is ordered to depart immediately. " ISRAEL PUTNAM. " PS — He has, accordingly, been executed.
Page 161 - Yours of this date, proposing armistice and appointment of Commissioners to settle terms of capitulation, is just received. No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
Page 183 - There are many officers to whom these remarks are applicable to a greater or less degree, proportionate to their ability as soldiers ; but what I want is to express my thanks to you and McPherson, as the men to whom, above all others, I feel indebted for whatever I have had of success.
Page 172 - With all my devotion to the Union, and the feeling of loyalty and duty of an American citizen, I have not been able to make up my mind to raise my hand against my relatives, my children, my home.
Page 14 - If you speak of eloquence, Mr. Rutledge, of South Carolina, is by far the greatest orator ; but if you speak of solid information and sound judgment, Colonel Washington is unquestionably the greatest man on that floor.
Page 220 - In this position, the left wing received six distinct assaults by the combined forces of Hoke, Hardee, and Cheatham, under the immediate command of General Johnston himself, without giving an inch of ground, and doing good execution on the enemy's ranks, especially with our artillery, the enemy having little or none.
Page 187 - I declined it publicly, and the fact was universally noticed. I then took my post on the left of the President, and for six hours and a half stood, while the army passed in the order of the Fifteenth, Seventeenth, Twentieth, and Fourteenth Corps. It was, in my judgment, the most magnificent army in existence — sixty-five thousand men, in splendid physique, who had just completed a march of nearly two thousand miles in a hostile country...