An Essay on the Life of the Honourable Major General Israel PutnamSamuel Avery, No. 89 Court Street, 1818 - 276 σελίδες |
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... arms , no previous " notice should be given : but they may be put in motion precisely " at 4 o'clock , and commence a slow and regular march to King's- " bridge , until they shall discover or be informed of the concerted " signals being ...
... arms , no previous " notice should be given : but they may be put in motion precisely " at 4 o'clock , and commence a slow and regular march to King's- " bridge , until they shall discover or be informed of the concerted " signals being ...
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... arm , he found the enemy had pierced it with their balls , and that there was not a drop of liquor left . The next day he found fourteen bullet holes in his blanket . In the same summer a body of the enemy , consisting of 600 men ...
... arm , he found the enemy had pierced it with their balls , and that there was not a drop of liquor left . The next day he found fourteen bullet holes in his blanket . In the same summer a body of the enemy , consisting of 600 men ...
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... arms . The larger pieces being reloaded , without an- noyance , continued alternately with the mus- quetry to make dreadful havoc , until the rout was completed and the enemy driven back to Ticonderoga . In this action , one of the bark ...
... arms . The larger pieces being reloaded , without an- noyance , continued alternately with the mus- quetry to make dreadful havoc , until the rout was completed and the enemy driven back to Ticonderoga . In this action , one of the bark ...
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... arms , and his face were blistered ; and when he pulled off his second pair of mittens , the skin from his hands and fingers followed them . It was a month before he recovered . The Commandant , to whom his merits had before endeared ...
... arms , and his face were blistered ; and when he pulled off his second pair of mittens , the skin from his hands and fingers followed them . It was a month before he recovered . The Commandant , to whom his merits had before endeared ...
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... arms were taken by the French . Our army , after sustaining this hav- ock , retreated with such extraordinary precip- itation , that they regained their camp at the southward of Lake George the evening after the action . The successes ...
... arms were taken by the French . Our army , after sustaining this hav- ock , retreated with such extraordinary precip- itation , that they regained their camp at the southward of Lake George the evening after the action . The successes ...
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Σελίδα 170 - Clerk's Office. BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the ninth day of September, AD 1818, and in the forty-third year of the Independence of the United States of America, Samuel Swett of the said district has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit : Historical and topographical Sketch of Bunker Hill Battle, with a Plan.
Σελίδα 107 - The soldier flew, the sailor too, And scared almost to death, sir, Wore out their shoes to spread the news, And ran till out of breath, sir. Now up and down throughout the town Most frantic scenes were acted; And some ran here and others there, Like men almost distracted. Some fire...
Σελίδα 108 - The motley crew, in vessels new, With Satan for their guide, sir, Pack'd up in bags, or wooden kegs, Come driving down the tide, sir. " Therefore prepare for bloody war, — These kegs must all be routed, Or surely we despised shall be, And British courage doubted.
Σελίδα 22 - The aperture of the den, on the east side of a very high ledge of rocks, is about two feet square ; from thence it descends obliquely fifteen feet, then running horizontally about ten more, it ascends gradually sixteen feet toward its termination.
Σελίδα 98 - We shall lay them down when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, and all danger of their being renewed shall be removed, and not before. " With an humble confidence in the mercies of the supreme and impartial Judge and Ruler of the universe, we most devoutly implore his divine goodness to conduct us happily through this great conflict, to dispose our adversaries to reconciliation on reasonable terms, and thereby to relieve the empire from the calamities of civil war.
Σελίδα 170 - CLERK'S OFFIcE. BE it remembered, that on the eleventh day of November, AD 1830, in the fiftyfifth year of the Independence of the United States of America, Gray & Bowen, of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof...
Σελίδα 47 - In the winter of 1757, when Col. Haviland was commandant at Fort Edward, the barracks adjoining to the northwest bastion took fire. They extended within twelve feet of the magazine, which contained three hundred barrels of powder. On its first discovery, the fire raged with great violence. The...
Σελίδα 98 - In our own native land, in defence of the freedom that is our birthright, and which we ever enjoyed till the late violation of it; for the protection of our property, acquired solely by the honest industry of our forefathers and ourselves, against violence actually offered we have taken up arms.
Σελίδα 61 - This change of ground occasioned the tree to which Putnam was tied to be directly between the fire of the two parties. Human imagination can hardly figure to itself a more deplorable situation. The balls flew incessantly from either side, many struck the tree, while some passed through the sleeves and skirts of his coat.
Σελίδα 108 - For God's sake, what's the matter? At his bed-side he then espy'd, Sir Erskine at command, sir, Upon one foot, he had one boot, And th' other in his hand, sir. " Arise, arise, sir Erskine cries, The rebels — more's the pity, Without a boat are all afloat, And rang'd before the city.