A Military Journal During the American Revolutionary War: From 1775 to 1783Cottons & Barnard, 1827 - 487 pages |
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... honor and princi- ple with the sordid view of office and preferment , " For ' tis their duty , all the learned think , T ' espouse that cause by which they eat and drink . " Those disaffected individuals , who still adhere to the royal ...
... honor and princi- ple with the sordid view of office and preferment , " For ' tis their duty , all the learned think , T ' espouse that cause by which they eat and drink . " Those disaffected individuals , who still adhere to the royal ...
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... honor , and for our dearest friends . We are not born to be slaves , and are re- solved to live and die free ; appealing to the sovereign Ruler of the Universe for the justice of our cause , and relying on his Almighty arm for ...
... honor , and for our dearest friends . We are not born to be slaves , and are re- solved to live and die free ; appealing to the sovereign Ruler of the Universe for the justice of our cause , and relying on his Almighty arm for ...
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... honor . The British were several times defeated before they took possession of our works , and have suffered a loss of more than a thousand of their best troops ; among whom are a large proportion of their most valuable officers . They ...
... honor . The British were several times defeated before they took possession of our works , and have suffered a loss of more than a thousand of their best troops ; among whom are a large proportion of their most valuable officers . They ...
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... honor . Colonel John Stark commanded a regiment from New Hampshire , and signalized himself by his active bravery . His very valiant major , McClary , was killed by a cannon ball while recrossing Charlestown neck , which is lamented as ...
... honor . Colonel John Stark commanded a regiment from New Hampshire , and signalized himself by his active bravery . His very valiant major , McClary , was killed by a cannon ball while recrossing Charlestown neck , which is lamented as ...
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... honors , were deposited in the vault under the chapel . This proceeding was to me a pleasing novelty , and in the view ... honor's field advancing his firm foot , Plants it upon the line that justice draws , And will prevail or perish in ...
... honors , were deposited in the vault under the chapel . This proceeding was to me a pleasing novelty , and in the view ... honor's field advancing his firm foot , Plants it upon the line that justice draws , And will prevail or perish in ...
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Page 4 - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States...
Page 322 - A country willing to redress your wrongs, cherish your worth, and reward your services ? A country courting your return to private life, with tears of gratitude and smiles of admiration, longing to divide with you that independency which your gallantry has given, and those riches which your wounds have preserved ? Is this the case ? Or is it rather a country, that tramples upon your rights, disdains your cries, and insults your distresses...
Page 134 - Above all, bring forward your armies into the field. Trust not to appearances of peace or safety. Be assured that, unless you persevere, you will be exposed to every species of barbarity. But, if you exert the means of defence which God and nature have given you, the time will soon arrive when every man shall sit under his own vine and under his own fig-tree, and there shall be none to make him afraid.
Page 326 - ... common country; as I have never left your side one moment, but when called from you on public duty; as I have been the constant companion and witness of your distresses, and not among the last to feel and acknowledge your merits; as I have ever considered my own military reputation as inseparably connected with that of the army ; as my heart has ever expanded with joy when I have heard its praises, and my indignation has arisen when the mouth of detraction has been opened against it, it can scarcely...
Page 343 - Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of action; and, bidding an affectionate farewell to this august body, under whose orders I have long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life.
Page 318 - An incessant attention to preserve inviolate those exalted rights and liberties of human nature for which they have fought and bled, and without which the high rank of a rational being is a curse instead of a blessing.
Page 450 - heaven has been determined to save your country ; or a weak General and bad Counsellors would have ruined it ; I am, sir, &.c.
Page 327 - My God ! what can this writer have in view by recommending such measures. Can he be a friend to the army? Can he be a friend to this country? Rather is he not an insidious foe : some emissary, perhaps, from New York, plotting the ruin of both, by sowing the seeds of discord and separation between the civil and military powers of the continent?
Page 52 - ... that he should absolutely decline any letter directed to him as a private person, when it related to his public station.
Page 322 - To be tame and unprovoked when injuries press hard on you, is more than weakness ; but to look up for kinder usage, without one manly effort of your own, would fix your character, and show the world how richly you deserve those chains you broke. To guard against this evil, let us take a review of the ground on which we now stand, and thence carry our thoughts forward for a moment, into the unexplored field of experiment.