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advance allies American army American Revolution André Anthony Wayne arms Arnold attack battle began Britain British British army broken Camden camp campaign captured Charleston Clark Clinton Colonel colonies command Congress CONSTITUTION ISLAND Continental Cornwallis Cowpens DANIEL MORGAN defeat detached enemy England English expedition failed Ferguson fight fire flank fleet force Fort Cornwallis fought France Franklin French garrison gave GEORGE ROGERS CLARK Georgia Greene Greene's Hamilton hands Hudson hundred Indian Kaskaskia killed Lafayette land Lord Lord Rawdon loyalists marched Marion military militia Morgan mountains movement North Carolina numbers officers once Oswald peace peril Pickens prisoners Rawdon redoubts result retreat riflemen river Rochambeau Savannah sent Shelburne side siege SIEGE OF YORKTOWN soldiers South Spain Stony Point strong Sumter surrender Tarleton thence tion took town treaty troops United victory Vincennes Virginia wallis Washington Wayne West Point withdrew wounded York Yorktown
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Page 239 - This England never did, (nor never shall,) Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.
Page 250 - ... free and independent States; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved ; and that, as free and independent States, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and do all other acts and things which independent States may of right do.
Page 258 - I consider it as an indispensable duty to close this last solemn act of my official life, by commending the interests of our dearest country, to the protection of Almighty God, and those who have the superintendence of them to his holy keeping.
Page 254 - American fishermen shall have liberty to dry and cure fish in any of the unsettled bays, harbours, and creeks of Nova Scotia, Magdalen Islands, and Labrador, so long as the same shall remain unsettled ; but so soon as the same or either of them shall be settled, it shall not be lawful for the said fishermen to dry or cure fish at such settlement, without a previous agreement for that purpose with the inhabitants, proprietors, or possessors of the ground.
Page 252 - River ; thence down along the middle of that river, to the forty-f1fth degree of north latitude ; from thence, by a line due west on said...
Page 254 - Liberty to dry and cure Fish in any of the unsettled Bays Harbours and Creeks of Nova Scotia, Magdalen Islands, and Labrador, so long as the same shall remain unsettled but so soon as the same or either of them shall be settled, it shall not be lawful for the said Fishermen to dry or cure Fish at such Settlement, without a previous Agreement for that purpose with the Inhabitants, Proprietors or Possessors of the Ground.
Page 255 - That there shall be no future confiscations made, nor any prosecutions commenced against any person or persons for or by reason of the part which he or they may have taken in the present war, and that no person shall, on that account, suffer any future loss or damage, either in his person, liberty or property...
Page 254 - Acts perfectly consistent not only with Justice and Equity but with that Spirit of Conciliation which on the return of the Blessings of Peace should universally prevail. And that Congress shall also earnestly recommend to the several States, that the Estates, Rights and Properties...
Page 248 - He has endeavored to prevent the population of these States ; for that purpose obstructing the laws for the naturalization of foreigners, refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands.
Page 252 - Croix River to the Highlands; along the said Highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean...