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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 322 322 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition. 243 243 Browse Search
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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 78 78 Browse Search
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct. 49 49 Browse Search
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 23 23 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 21 21 Browse Search
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 8. 13 13 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, The American revolution. (search)
1: The continental congress in midsummer, 1775. June 17—July, 1775. idle refugees in Boston, and even candid British Chap. XLI.} 1775. June 17. officers, condemned Howe's attack on the New fifth regiment suffered most; the Chap. XLI.} 1775. June 17. eighteenth and the fifty ninth, whichard of his king, because he saw no Chap. XLI.} 1775. June 17. chance of being provided for at home,merous eccentricities were neither Chap. XLI.} 1775. June 17. exaggerations nor caricatures of any ovince makes him a fit subject for Chap. XLI.} 1775. June 17. an important trust; but has he strongs rather than on concerted action; Chap. XLI.} 1775. June. and at fifty seven he was too old to ben open carriage by a pair of white Chap. XLI.} 1775. June. horses, he was escorted into the city bcome once more a citizen. When we Chap. XLI.} 1775. June. assumed the soldier, we did not lay asiour majesty to direct some mode by Chap. XLI.} 1775. July. which the united applications of your fa[5 more...]
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 42: (search)
hird day of July, Washington rode Chap. XLII.} 1775. July. forth from his quarters at Cambridge, nust moment of his coming, the com- Chap. XLII.} 1775. July. mander in chief took the hearts of all athe enemy. From Prospect Hill he Chap. XLII.} 1775. July. took a comprehensive view of Boston and ve rank and file. But these were Chap. XLII.} 1775. July. the choicest troops, thoroughly trained,Indians of the Stockbridge tribe. Chap. XLII.} 1775. July. They were armed with bows and arrows, asand stores of the army, Washington Chap XLII.} 1775. July. made allowances for a devoted province lain Emerson; yet, upon the whole, Chap. XLII.} 1775. July. God is in the midst of us. Meantime Lhe British ministry to Vergennes, Chap. XLII.} 1775. July. who pronounced it an absurdity worthy onepresentatives. Boston took part Chap. XLII.} 1775. July. in the elections; for the wanderers frome farmers, and from every cellar, Chap. XLII.} 1775. July. and barn yard, and field throughout Worc[1 more...]
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 43: (search)
ental congress, acting as a promiscu- Chap. XLIII.} 1775 July. ous executive, neither formed a carefully consand above all, of powder. Washington Chap. XLIII.} 1775. July. also called to mind, that he had not as yet bd recommendations to the several gov- Chap. XLIII.} 1775. July. ernments of New England and New York; and no Franklin, who well knew that the re- Chap. XLIII.} 1775. July. quired concessions never would be made, the pof his fellow-subjects in America; in Chap. XLIII.} 1775 July. the same month congress sent to Ireland a pled, incensed John Adams, who maintained Chap. XLIII.} 1775. July. that the fifty or sixty men composing the cononey was made with fleets and armies; Chap. XLIII.} 1775. July. unjust, as it asked increased contributions weach separate colony with the obliga- Chap. XLIII.} 1775. July. tion to provide for sinking its quota of the directly to export any merchandise or Chap. XLIII.} 1775. Aug. commodity whatever to Great Britain, Ireland,
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 44: (search)
Washington were more various and Chap. XLIV.} 1775. Aug. burdensome than ever devolved upon a Euros power, never hurried him beyond Chap. XLIV.} 1775. Aug. his self-prescribed bounds. Congress himportunate messages were extended Chap XLIV.} 1775. Aug. even to New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylintense energy of his will, which Chap. XLIV.} 1775. Aug. bore him on to do his duty with an irresiauthority of the continental con- Chap. XLIV.} 1775. Aug. gress, and they formed the best corps in he next day he warped off, carry- Chap. XLIV.} 1775. Aug. ing away no spoils except the skiff, in wse of retaliation, as he sent the Chap. XLIV.} 1775 Aug. British officers who were his prisoners ining down the Boston liberty tree; Chap. XLIV.} 1775. Aug. and when marauding expeditions returned wwo or three men-of-war; while the Chap. XLIV.} 1775. Sept. numerous detachments, which would be reqded his worst apprehensions, com- Chap. XLIV.} 1775. Sept. pelled him to inactivity, from a cause w[1 more...]
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 45: (search)
hich were not immediately involved Chap. XLV.} 1775. in the war, the officers of the crown should hdistress; and by providing for the Chap. XLV.} 1775. yearly election of its successors, severed fro unrestricted sway. At the second Chap. XLV.} 1775. convention, held in January, 1775, the presidedelphia deprecated a revolutionary Chap. XLV.} 1775. government, which must emanate from undeterminr convention; the governor and the Chap. XLV.} 1775. assembly understood their relative position penventions. The prudent, the slow, Chap. XLV.} 1775. the hesitating were allowed an influence; but of the governor from Williamsburg Chap. XLV.} 1775. foreshadowed the end of the colonial system. enth of July, 1775, her people as- Chap. XLV.} 1775. sembled at Richmond in a convention, which wasequal. His deep blue eyes are now Chap. XLV.} 1775. dimmed; his step has lost its certainty; he river desired it might be remembered Chap. XLV.} 1775. that a redress of grievances, and not a revolu[2 more...]
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 46: (search)
iliatory measures may take place; Chap. XLVI.} 1775. July. to Oct. there is not an hour to be lostolina recruiting officer, a crowd Chap. XLVI.} 1775. July to Oct. broke open the gaol and set the pan assembly, in the hope of hear- Chap. XLVI.} 1775. July to Oct. ing favorable news from the Northebels to their king have lost all Chap. XLVI.} 1775. July to Oct. faith; improve a correspondence w; but the council of safety order Chap. XLVI.} 1775. July to Oct. ed William Moultrie, colonel of tt, that the king has dominions in Chap. XLVI.} 1775. July to Oct. this part of America. What defen and declared himself sure of the Chap. XLVI.} 1775. July to Oct. allegiance of the Regulators, whoa purpose of inviting the negroes Chap. XLVI.} 1775. July to Oct. to rise. The spirit of resistarican resistance; but having once Chap. XLVI.} 1775. July to Oct. chosen his part, he advocated theone thousand men; an organization Chap. XLVI.} 1775. July to Oct. of the militia of the colony; an [6 more...]
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 47: (search)
nty fifth, tidings of the Bunker Chap. XLVII.} 1775. July. Hill battle reached the cabinet, and spr that he might depend upon a re- Chap. XLVII.} 1775. Aug. enforcement of regular troops, that it was; towards foreign powers he was Chap. XLVII.} 1775. Aug. free from rancor. It had been the policy and the Russian ministers never Chap. XLVII.} 1775. Aug. spoke of the strife but as likely to end Bunker Hill from England reached Chap. XLVII.} 1775. Sept. Washington before the end of September; nia barred against him the doors Chap. XLVII.} 1775 Sept. of congress, but the affection of the Wesmissioners, recommended an expe- Chap. XLVII.} 1775. Sept. dition to take Detroit: the proposal, af neglect of congress had brought Chap. XLVII.} 1775. Sept. matters in his army to a crisis. Not poto submission; that a separation Chap. XLVII.} 1775. Oct. from Britain was inevitable. His presenctill at the camp, when news from Chap. XLVII.} 1775. Oct. Maine confirmed his interpretation of the[7 more...]
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 48: (search)
of manners and events can alone Chap. Xlviii} 1775. Aug. measure his own fairness, for no one elseup for judgment; and yet the hu- Chap. Xlviii} 1775. Aug. mane student of his race, in his searcheshe well being of a state, and is Chap. Xlviii} 1775. Aug. ruinous when it passes its bounds. It han its excess. It may take a di- Chap. Xlviii} 1775. Aug. versity of names as it comes into flower y those of the parent land. The Chap. Xlviii} 1775. Aug. moral world knows only one rule of right;econd usurped all authority over Chap. Xlviii} 1775. Aug. the country north of the Potomac, and dese, was unfolding the plan in the Chap. Xlviii} 1775. Aug. house of commons just before Bute retiredom his colonial policy was to be Chap. Xlviii} 1775. Aug. changed, had the option between repealingcified by a simple repeal of obnoxious acts; in 1775, after blood had been shed at Lexington, some son acts and taxes for regulating Chap. Xlviii} 1775. Aug. trade, on condition of being relieved fro[5 more...]
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 49: (search)
ust, September, in Europe. November in America—1775. The zeal of Richard Penn appeared from his Chap. XLIX.} 1775. Aug. celerity. Four days after the petition to the king had been adopted by con to apprehend that such rebellion Chap. XLIX.} 1775. Aug. hath been much promoted and encouraged byarged with the sole care of their Chap. XLIX.} 1775. Nov. little brood of children; managing their o longer parent state, but tyrant Chap. XLIX.} 1775. Nov. state, and these colonies. Let us separament of Pennsylvania. The legis- Chap. XLIX.} 1775. Nov. lature of that colony was in session; it rd, and preparing for Dickinson a Chap. XLIX.} 1775. Nov. life of regrets. Had it done no more thafrom considering whether well or- Chap. XLIX.} 1775. Nov. ganized civil institutions could be framea better hope of unanimity. They Chap. XLIX.} 1775. Nov. became more resolute, more thorough, and hole empire, wrote Jefferson to a Chap. XLIX.} 1775. Nov. refugee, to have a king of such a disposi[5 more...]
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 50: (search)
ed in his Bid for Russians. September, October—1775. the king's proclamation was a contemptuous defi- Chap. L.} 1775. Sept. ance of the opposition, alike of the party of Rockingham and the party and virtuous king. For a moment they Chap L.} 1775. Sept. thought that danger menaced George the Thais. Vergennes continued to present Chap. L} 1775. Sept. America to his mind in every possible asy regiment is all ready at the first Chap. L.} 1775. Sept. twinkle that shall be given me; and likeite epistle, requesting her friendly Chap. L.} 1775. Sept. assistance: I accept the succor that you from you, wrote Suffolk to Gunning, Chap. L.} 1775. Sept. that this accession of force being very r aid, was flattering to her vanity, Chap. L.} 1775 Oct. and, supposing it had reference only to enof the letter of the king of England Chap. L.} 1775. Oct. to the empress of Russia was in his own h, it is not consistent with the dig- Chap. L.} 1775. Oct. nity of England to employ foreign troops [4 more...]
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