Lives of the Presidents of the United States: With Biographical Notices of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence : Sketches of the Most Remarkable Events in the History of the Country, to which are Added the Declaration of Independence and Constitution of the United States |
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... foreign troops , it little becomes the character of a soldier to shrink from danger , and condition for new terms . It is the general's intention to indulge both officers and soldiers , who compose the new army , with furloughs for a ...
... foreign troops , it little becomes the character of a soldier to shrink from danger , and condition for new terms . It is the general's intention to indulge both officers and soldiers , who compose the new army , with furloughs for a ...
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... foreign nations were very unsettled . Animosities raged with considera- ble violence between the United States and Great Britain . Each charged the other with a violation of the late treaty of peace . Difficulties occurred with Spain in ...
... foreign nations were very unsettled . Animosities raged with considera- ble violence between the United States and Great Britain . Each charged the other with a violation of the late treaty of peace . Difficulties occurred with Spain in ...
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... Foreign Affairs ; and Mr. Edmund Randolph in the office of Attorney General . It was among the first measures of Washington to make peace with the Indians , and commissioners were appointed for this purpose . General Lincoln , Mr ...
... Foreign Affairs ; and Mr. Edmund Randolph in the office of Attorney General . It was among the first measures of Washington to make peace with the Indians , and commissioners were appointed for this purpose . General Lincoln , Mr ...
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... foreign mercenaries , proceeded in the following terms ; " Whereas it appears absolutely irreconcilable to reason and good con- science , for the people of these colonies now to take the oaths and affirmations necessary for the support ...
... foreign mercenaries , proceeded in the following terms ; " Whereas it appears absolutely irreconcilable to reason and good con- science , for the people of these colonies now to take the oaths and affirmations necessary for the support ...
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... foreign Minister , at his first presentation to the King , to make his Majesty some compliments conformable to the spirit of his credentials ; and when Sir Clement Cottrel Dormer , the master of the ceremonies , came to inform me that ...
... foreign Minister , at his first presentation to the King , to make his Majesty some compliments conformable to the spirit of his credentials ; and when Sir Clement Cottrel Dormer , the master of the ceremonies , came to inform me that ...
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