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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... whole ; and can only attribute his not having come forward with a better excuse , to a sudden qualm of conscience , or perhaps to a momentary torpor in those inventive faculties , on most other occasions so serviceable to him . The ...
... whole ; and can only attribute his not having come forward with a better excuse , to a sudden qualm of conscience , or perhaps to a momentary torpor in those inventive faculties , on most other occasions so serviceable to him . The ...
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... whole of his magazines , or even to remove his tents ; of which a sufficiency for 1500 men were left standing . Colonel Murray , in his first letter , states that general M'Clure had passed over his cannon , as well as stores . * But ...
... whole of his magazines , or even to remove his tents ; of which a sufficiency for 1500 men were left standing . Colonel Murray , in his first letter , states that general M'Clure had passed over his cannon , as well as stores . * But ...
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... whole , amounting to about 400 rank and file , in order to secure the passage of the bridge , took up a position , a short distance beyond it , at a place called the Sailor's battery . In the course of the night several attempts were ...
... whole , amounting to about 400 rank and file , in order to secure the passage of the bridge , took up a position , a short distance beyond it , at a place called the Sailor's battery . In the course of the night several attempts were ...
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... whole four was effected by five British boats , under the orders of lieutenant ( now cap- tain ) James Polkinghorne , of the St. Domingo , * * For the full particulars of this gallant exploit , see James's Naval Occurrences , p . 367 ...
... whole four was effected by five British boats , under the orders of lieutenant ( now cap- tain ) James Polkinghorne , of the St. Domingo , * * For the full particulars of this gallant exploit , see James's Naval Occurrences , p . 367 ...
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... whole village . Mr. Thomson finds it convenient to describe the contents of the store - houses as goods belonging to merchants of Baltimore and Philadelphia , and to be totally silent about any military stores ; but general Wilkinson ...
... whole village . Mr. Thomson finds it convenient to describe the contents of the store - houses as goods belonging to merchants of Baltimore and Philadelphia , and to be totally silent about any military stores ; but general Wilkinson ...
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