A Full and Correct Account of the Military Occurrences of the Late War Between Great Britain and the United States of America: With an Appendix, and Plates, Volume 2author, 1818 - United States |
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... Roads ; and the piquets of his advanced corps , which was commanded by colonel Murray , occasionally showed themselves in the town of Newark . From the American accounts only we learn , that , on the 6th of October , " about 500 militia ...
... Roads ; and the piquets of his advanced corps , which was commanded by colonel Murray , occasionally showed themselves in the town of Newark . From the American accounts only we learn , that , on the 6th of October , " about 500 militia ...
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... road , and back . This was not without an object ; for we were afterwards told , that * Hist . of the War , p . 158. + See Vol . I. p . 218 . " general M'Clure , with the New York militia , B 2 GREAT BRITAIN AND AMERICA . 3 consisting ...
... road , and back . This was not without an object ; for we were afterwards told , that * Hist . of the War , p . 158. + See Vol . I. p . 218 . " general M'Clure , with the New York militia , B 2 GREAT BRITAIN AND AMERICA . 3 consisting ...
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... roads , the whole of them must have been left to the protection of the enemy . Nor , for the same reason , could the ordnance , ordnance - stores , baggage , and provisions , have followed the army ; and yet the garrison of Kingston ...
... roads , the whole of them must have been left to the protection of the enemy . Nor , for the same reason , could the ordnance , ordnance - stores , baggage , and provisions , have followed the army ; and yet the garrison of Kingston ...
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... road towards the Forty - mile Creek ; beyond which point he had been ordered not to proceed . The advance of this small detachment soon reached the ears of general M'Clure , who had taken post at the Twenty - mile Creek , and who now ...
... road towards the Forty - mile Creek ; beyond which point he had been ordered not to proceed . The advance of this small detachment soon reached the ears of general M'Clure , who had taken post at the Twenty - mile Creek , and who now ...
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... roads , to effect the carriage , by land , of a suffi- ciency of batteaux for the enterprise . * J : Every thing being prepared by the evening of the 18th , the troops destined for the assault , consisting of a small detachment of royal ...
... roads , to effect the carriage , by land , of a suffi- ciency of batteaux for the enterprise . * J : Every thing being prepared by the evening of the 18th , the troops destined for the assault , consisting of a small detachment of royal ...
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