Annual Register, Том 24Edmund Burke Longmans, Green, 1800 |
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... should furely be an incentive to refolution and bold enterprize to learn , that not a fingle man was loft on the British fide , in an affair which carried fo dreadful an ap- pearance . It is evident , that the Spaniards , at leaft in ...
... should furely be an incentive to refolution and bold enterprize to learn , that not a fingle man was loft on the British fide , in an affair which carried fo dreadful an ap- pearance . It is evident , that the Spaniards , at leaft in ...
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... should be exerted for their fupport . The French troops , he faid , were un- der the ftricteft difcipline ; and , acting under the orders of General Washington , would live with the Americans as brethren . He re- turned their ...
... should be exerted for their fupport . The French troops , he faid , were un- der the ftricteft difcipline ; and , acting under the orders of General Washington , would live with the Americans as brethren . He re- turned their ...
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... should be remembered , to the honour and praise of Don Pedro St. Jago , a captain of the regi- ment of Arragon , and of the other Spanish prifoners at Barbadoes , who were all under his immediate direction , that they acted the kind ...
... should be remembered , to the honour and praise of Don Pedro St. Jago , a captain of the regi- ment of Arragon , and of the other Spanish prifoners at Barbadoes , who were all under his immediate direction , that they acted the kind ...
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... should be re- primanded by General Washing- ton . This fentence gave no fatis . faction to the accufers . They said , that the confideration of General Arnold's former fervices had ren- dered his judges too favourable . On the other ...
... should be re- primanded by General Washing- ton . This fentence gave no fatis . faction to the accufers . They said , that the confideration of General Arnold's former fervices had ren- dered his judges too favourable . On the other ...
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... should make fuch a difpofition of the wing of the army under his command , as would enable Sir Henry Clinton completely to furprize their ftrong pofts and batteries , and throw the troops fo entirely into his hands , that they muft ...
... should make fuch a difpofition of the wing of the army under his command , as would enable Sir Henry Clinton completely to furprize their ftrong pofts and batteries , and throw the troops fo entirely into his hands , that they muft ...
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