John Cassell's Illustrated History of England, المجلد 5John Frederick Smith W. Kent and Company, 1861 |
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... Clinton . Burgoyne we have formerly met with in Spain , where he showed considerable spirit ; but none of the generals showed much here , though the soldiers were brave and well- disciplined , and could , if well commanded , have soon ...
... Clinton . Burgoyne we have formerly met with in Spain , where he showed considerable spirit ; but none of the generals showed much here , though the soldiers were brave and well- disciplined , and could , if well commanded , have soon ...
الصفحة 125
... Clinton , seeing the unequal strife , without waiting for orders , and attended by a number of resolute officers , hastened across the water in boats , and , rallying the fugitives , led them a third time up the hill . By this time the ...
... Clinton , seeing the unequal strife , without waiting for orders , and attended by a number of resolute officers , hastened across the water in boats , and , rallying the fugitives , led them a third time up the hill . By this time the ...
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... Clinton was daily expected with the reinforcements from England . But Clinton did not appear , and the impatient Highlanders and Regulators , in marching from Cross Creek to Wilmington , were decoyed into a swamp , and there at- tacked ...
... Clinton was daily expected with the reinforcements from England . But Clinton did not appear , and the impatient Highlanders and Regulators , in marching from Cross Creek to Wilmington , were decoyed into a swamp , and there at- tacked ...
الصفحة 152
... Clinton that of New York . Thaddeus Kosciusko , afterwards the hero of Poland , was one of the chief engineers ; and William Palfrey , a Boston merchant , was paymaster - general . But Washing- ton's troops were ill equipped , and most ...
... Clinton that of New York . Thaddeus Kosciusko , afterwards the hero of Poland , was one of the chief engineers ; and William Palfrey , a Boston merchant , was paymaster - general . But Washing- ton's troops were ill equipped , and most ...
الصفحة 153
... Clinton . They landed in Gravesend Bay , under cover of the artillery of three frigates and two bombs . The rest of the army followed with the artillery . Washington hastened over from New York to strengthen general Sulli- van , who was ...
... Clinton . They landed in Gravesend Bay , under cover of the artillery of three frigates and two bombs . The rest of the army followed with the artillery . Washington hastened over from New York to strengthen general Sulli- van , who was ...
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الصفحة 243 - That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"?
الصفحة 432 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
الصفحة 190 - From the tapestry that adorns these walls, the immortal ancestor of this noble lord* frowns with indignation at the disgrace of his country.
الصفحة 3 - Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton ; and the peculiar happiness of my life will ever consist in promoting the welfare of a people, whose loyalty and warm affection to me I consider as the greatest and most permanent security of my throne...
الصفحة 51 - He made an administration so checkered and speckled, he put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic; such a tesselated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone and there a bit of white...
الصفحة 48 - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
الصفحة 114 - We shall be forced ultimately to retract ; let us retract while we can, not when we must. I say we must necessarily undo these violent oppressive acts ; they must be repealed — you will repeal them ; I pledge myself for it, that you will in the end repeal them ; I stake my reputation on it — I will consent to be taken for an idiot, if they are not finally repealed.
الصفحة 106 - SIR, — His Majesty has thought proper to order a new commission of the Treasury to be made out, in which I do not perceive your name.
الصفحة 393 - I impeach him in the name of the people of India, whose laws, rights and liberties he has subverted; whose properties he has destroyed; whose country he has laid waste and desolate. I impeach him in the name and by virtue of those eternal laws of justice which he has violated. I impeach him in the name of human nature itself, which he has cruelly outraged, injured and oppressed, in both sexes, in every age, rank, situation, and condition of life.
الصفحة 47 - Majesty, the property of your Majesty's commons of America. It is an absurdity in terms. The distinction between legislation and taxation is essentially necessary to liberty. The Crown, the Peers, are equally legislative powers with the Commons. If taxation be a part of simple legislation, the Crown...