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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 65: (search)
ia communicated to her sister col- Chap. LXV.} 1776. May. onies her instruction to her delegates ireceived as indisputably the voice Chap. LXV.} 1776. May. of her whole people. She had dispensed for its president Daniel Roberdau; Chap. LXV.} 1776. May. and it voted unanimously, that the instromestic political party, springing Chap. LXV.} 1776. May. spontaneously from the ranks of the peopinstructions against independence, Chap. LXV.} 1776. May. and to oppose altering the least part offull knowledge that the king would Chap. LXV.} 1776. June. not yield, they expressed their ardent morning of the eighth of June, the Chap. LXV.} 1776. June. assembly of Pennsylvania resumed the cothe restriction on his vote by the Chap. LXV.} 1776 June. Pennsylvania assembly on that morning, diress queen, in her turn, expressed Chap. LXV.} 1776. June. a very hearty desire to see obedience a been the same; no one man had done Chap LXV.} 1776 June. so much to bring about independence as th
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 66: (search)
of May robed the pomegranate and Chap. LXVI.} 1776. June. the oleander in their gorgeous masses oended movement of the fleet, than Chap. LXVI.} 1776. June. by landing on Long Island, which was re were obliged for safety to stand Chap. LXIV.} 1776. June out to sea, and this assisted to postpond ammunition, had left the trans- Chap. LXIV.} 1776. June. ports for a naked sand-bank that was toat passed along the platform from Chap. LXVI.} 1776. June 28. officers and men. Shall I send foro rude an encounter. Neither the Chap. LXVI.} 1776. June. 28. tide nor the wind suffered them to round at about four hundred yards Chap. LXVI.} 1776. June 28. from the fort. The Syren had got off the general long indulged in re- Chap. LXVI.} 1776. June 28. ciprocal criminations. Nothing remain ever did behave better, or ever Chap. LXVI.} 1776. June 30. could behave better. On the afternays of the new-born commonwealth; Chap. LXVI.} 1776. July. and when, in the name of South Carolina,[11 more...]
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 67: (search)
dolence, when new trees, as they Chap. LXVII.} 1776. Mar. expressed it, were raised in the place ofnd Quebec. The garrison laughed Chap. LXVII.} 1776. Apr. as they saw from the ramparts the general detached six of his best batta- Chap. LXVII.} 1776. Apr. lions, containing more than three thousananada, and they were resolved to Chap. LXVII.} 1776. Apr. maintain that number on the St. Lawrence,ion of credit by the use of hard Chap. LXVII.} 1776. May. money and without a large army, they couon at the narrow pass of the Ce- Chap. LXVII.} 1776. May. dars. This pass was but fifteen leaguesre unmeaning words; it could not Chap. LXVII.} 1776. May. command adequate means of transportation thousand militia be employed to Chap. LXVII.} 1776. June 28. reinforce the army in Canada, and to supposed to exceed four hundred. Chap. LXVII.} 1776. June. But a Canadian peasant, as soon as theyarleton's want of alertness, and Chap. LXVII.} 1776. June. his calling in the parties that guarded[9 more...]
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 68: (search)
endence was not an act of sudden CHAP. Lxviii} 1776. June. passion, nor the work of one man or oneo had written best in English on CHAP. Lxviii} 1776. June. government and public freedom; but mostwenty fourth of May, the vote of CHAP. Lxviii} 1776. May. the continental congress of the fifteentpon the freeholders and electors CHAP. Lxviii} 1776. June. of the colony to confer on the deputiestment of every one of them would CHAP. Lxviii} 1776. June. arrive in a few months. Little had beeis trust in the protection of an CHAP. Lxviii} 1776. June. all-wise and beneficent Being; and knewle, he was kept under guard till CHAP. Lxviii} 1776. June. he could be removed to Connecticut. Onoughout the world by its respect CHAP. Lxviii} 1776. June. for religious and civil liberty, had kehich Washington had procured him CHAP. Lxviii} 1776. June. the high office of adjutant-general. r the divisions of nationalities CHAP. Lxviii} 1776. June. were broken in pieces, the conference, [4 more...]
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 69: (search)
termination; for a free constitu- Chap. LXIX.} 1776. July 1. tion of civil government could not be independent republic; Virginia on Chap. LXIX.} 1776. July 1. the fifteenth, the very day on which J had no bayonets. Of the militia Chap. LXIX.} 1776. July 1. who had been called for, only about a ve spirit, which showed itself in Chap. LXIX.} 1776. July 1. the employment of German troops, whose the integrity, if not the policy Chap. LXIX.} 1776. July 1. of my conduct. The first campaign wils never appeared. These particu- Chap. LXIX.} 1776. July 1. lars would not be unobserved by foreigread, from which it appeared that Chap. LXIX.} 1776. July 1. Howe and forty five ships or more, ladaching terrible conflict of which Chap. XLIX.} 1776. July 1. America could not ward off the calamite sundered forever; it may be the Chap. XLIX.} 1776. July 2. will of Heaven that America shall suffport and defend these states; yet Chap. LXIX.} 1776. July 2-4. through all the gloom, I can see the[4 more...]
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 70: (search)
he declaration of the United States. July 2—4, 1776. The resolution of congress changed the old ttle of himself, that his country, Chap. LXX.} 1776. July 2-4. as it went along with him, found not bound his aspirations, and he be- Chap. LXX.} 1776. July 2-4. lieved more than he himself was awarstitution, which he still acknowl- Chap. LXX.} 1776. July 2-4. edgedto he the best that the world ho prohibit or to restrain this ex- Chap. LXX.} 1776. July 2-4. ecrable commerce. And that this assricken out; and the earnestness of Chap. LXX.} 1776. July 2-4. the denunciation lost its author no tish crown, and that all political Chap. LXX.} 1776. July 4. connection between them and the state me of the ascendent people of that Chap. LXX.} 1776. July 4. time, it was sure to make the circuit ngton, nor John Adams, nor Jeffer- Chap. LXX.} 1776. July 4. son, nor Jay, had ever expressed a pre in the thirteen colonies now owed Chap. LXX.} 1776. July 4. primary allegiance to the dynasty of t[5 more...]
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