The History of Virginia: From Its First Settlement to the Present Day, Τόμος 4author, 1816 |
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Σελίδα 65
... enemy's ships immediately fired , ordering her , in a haughty and peremptory tone , to come Burwell's along side of ... enemy This kindled additional irritation in the breast of the latter Hostility became frenzy . A smart cannonade ...
... enemy's ships immediately fired , ordering her , in a haughty and peremptory tone , to come Burwell's along side of ... enemy This kindled additional irritation in the breast of the latter Hostility became frenzy . A smart cannonade ...
Σελίδα 78
... enemy's force , the projected at- That plan is tack was for the present relinquished . The patriots con- relinquish ... enemy from that quarter . Many of the inhabitants rallyed round their country's standard , whilst others still ...
... enemy's force , the projected at- That plan is tack was for the present relinquished . The patriots con- relinquish ... enemy from that quarter . Many of the inhabitants rallyed round their country's standard , whilst others still ...
Σελίδα 83
... enemy's boat - guard might be attacked to advantage by a party crossing a mile below , near a place where his own boat - guard , in suffi- cient force , lay concealed in a cove , detached , on the 3d day of December , Captain Taliaferro ...
... enemy's boat - guard might be attacked to advantage by a party crossing a mile below , near a place where his own boat - guard , in suffi- cient force , lay concealed in a cove , detached , on the 3d day of December , Captain Taliaferro ...
Σελίδα 84
... enemy's guard , destroy their fortifica tions , and burn the house which afforded them shelter . A Negro perished in ... enemy exhibited itself in the circumstance of gashed and cut balls being found on the black prisoners , who stated ...
... enemy's guard , destroy their fortifica tions , and burn the house which afforded them shelter . A Negro perished in ... enemy exhibited itself in the circumstance of gashed and cut balls being found on the black prisoners , who stated ...
Σελίδα 87
... enemy from the island . To effect this , it became necessary to occupy a projecting point , from which the riflemen ... enemy's cannon . Colonel Stevens , who ne- ver calculated the danger of an enterprize , but merely considered the ...
... enemy from the island . To effect this , it became necessary to occupy a projecting point , from which the riflemen ... enemy's cannon . Colonel Stevens , who ne- ver calculated the danger of an enterprize , but merely considered the ...
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American appointed arms army Arnold Assembly attack body Britain British British army Captain cause cavalry CHAP circumstances Clinton Colonel colony Commander in Chief Committee committee of safety Commonwealth Congress Continental Convention corps Council declared defence Delegates detachment Edmund Pendleton effect enemy enemy's enterprize Executive expedition Fayette fire fleet force French Gates Governor Henry honour hopes hostile House of Burgesses immediately Indians infantry inhabitants James river Jefferson La Fayette land late Legislature letter liberty Lieutenant Lieutenant Colonel Lord Cornwallis Lord Dunmore measures ment military militia neral New-York Norfolk North Carolina object officers party patriotic persons Portsmouth present prisoners proceeded received regiment reinforcements rendered resolution resolved respect retired retreat river ships Sir Henry Clinton situation soldiers soon South spirit station Tarleton tion town troops vessels Virginia Washington whilst whole Williamsburg Woodford wounded
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Σελίδα 129 - They nourished up ~by YOUR indulgence ! They grew by your neglect of them. As soon as you began to care about them, that care was exercised in sending persons to rule them...
Σελίδα 170 - Nor have we been wanting in attention to our British brethren. We have warned them, from time to time, of attempts made by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice...
Σελίδα 241 - I call upon the honour of your lordships to reverence the dignity of your ancestors, and to maintain your own. I call upon the spirit and humanity of my country to vindicate the national character.
Σελίδα 240 - My Lords, we are called upon as members of this House, as men, as Christians, to protest against such horrible barbarity ! — " That God and nature have put into our hands !" What ideas of God and nature, that noble Lord may entertain, I know not; but I know, that such detestable principles are equally abhorrent to religion and humanity.
Σελίδα 129 - They protected by your arms ! They have nobly taken up arms in your defence ; have exerted a valour amidst their constant and laborious industry, for the defence of a country whose frontier was drenched in blood, while its interior parts yielded all its little savings to your emolument.
Σελίδα 349 - ... little republics, with a warden at the head of each, for all those concerns which, being under their eye, they would better manage than the larger republics of the county or State.
Σελίδα 139 - Forasmuch as all the endeavours of the United Colonies, by the most decent representations and petitions to the king and parliament of Great Britain, to restore peace and security to America under the British government, and a reunion with that people upon just and liberal terms, instead of a redress of grievances, have produced, from an imperious and vindictive administration, increased insult, oppression, and a vigorous attempt to effect our total destruction.
Σελίδα 140 - Congress, be instructed to propose to that respectable body to declare the United Colonies free and independent States, absolved from all allegiance to, or dependence upon, the Crown or Parliament of Great Britain ; and that they give the assent of this Colony to such declaration, and to whatever measures may be thought proper and necessary by the Congress for forming foreign alliances, and a confederation of the Colonies, at such time, and in...
Σελίδα 241 - My Lords, I am old and weak, and at present unable to say more; but my feelings and indignation were too strong- to have said less. I could not have slept this night in my bed, nor reposed my head on my pillow, without giving this vent to my eternal abhorrence of such preposterous and enormous principles.
Σελίδα 170 - He is, at this time, transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the work of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun, with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy, scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation.