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 1author, 1818 - Ontario |
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... arms beyond the day of his enlistment ; but the American soldier has been accustomed , from his infancy , to the free use of the most destructive of all fire - arms , the rifle . No laws have interfered to restrain him from amusing his ...
... arms beyond the day of his enlistment ; but the American soldier has been accustomed , from his infancy , to the free use of the most destructive of all fire - arms , the rifle . No laws have interfered to restrain him from amusing his ...
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... arms : the tyrannical principles of the Berlin and Milan decrees , and the confiscations under them ; the subsequent confiscations under the Rambouillet decree , antedated or concealed to render it the more effectual ; the French ...
... arms : the tyrannical principles of the Berlin and Milan decrees , and the confiscations under them ; the subsequent confiscations under the Rambouillet decree , antedated or concealed to render it the more effectual ; the French ...
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... arms against the savage and his tribe . An American citizen , - out of mere wantonness , and with as little remorse as if it were a wild turkey , -shoots a poor Indian : the yells of the widowed squaw and her children rend the air in ...
... arms against the savage and his tribe . An American citizen , - out of mere wantonness , and with as little remorse as if it were a wild turkey , -shoots a poor Indian : the yells of the widowed squaw and her children rend the air in ...
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... arms and ammunition , he commenced his march , with 54 regulars and 12 militia , and was escorted by captain Wells , of Fort - Wayne , and a few Indians of the Mi- ami tribe , sent thither for that purpose . Americans were afterwards ...
... arms and ammunition , he commenced his march , with 54 regulars and 12 militia , and was escorted by captain Wells , of Fort - Wayne , and a few Indians of the Mi- ami tribe , sent thither for that purpose . Americans were afterwards ...
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... arms . General Brock permitted the American volun- teers and militia to return to their homes , but sent general Hull and the principal part of the American regulars to Montreal ; whence they were afterwards removed to Quebec . After ...
... arms . General Brock permitted the American volun- teers and militia to return to their homes , but sent general Hull and the principal part of the American regulars to Montreal ; whence they were afterwards removed to Quebec . After ...
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