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Page 159
... enemy , both in the town and har- bour . The plan for the execution of this determination was not well formed ; and the executive part , dependent on officers and troops unacquainted with difcipline , was ftill more inattentively ...
... enemy , both in the town and har- bour . The plan for the execution of this determination was not well formed ; and the executive part , dependent on officers and troops unacquainted with difcipline , was ftill more inattentively ...
Page 165
... enemy ; and them , more fully , of our obftinate attachment to our liberty , on the original principles of the dispute . ; On the 23d of Auguft , the British army landed on Long - Ifland , and on the 27th , attacked the entrenched pofts ...
... enemy ; and them , more fully , of our obftinate attachment to our liberty , on the original principles of the dispute . ; On the 23d of Auguft , the British army landed on Long - Ifland , and on the 27th , attacked the entrenched pofts ...
Page 174
... enemy's rear , obliged them to retire from before the city , and take poft on an island in the harbour , occupying only a point of the main land , oppo- fite to their principal encampment . This poft was immc- diately after attacked by ...
... enemy's rear , obliged them to retire from before the city , and take poft on an island in the harbour , occupying only a point of the main land , oppo- fite to their principal encampment . This poft was immc- diately after attacked by ...
Contents
Remarks made during a refidence at Strabroek Rio Deme | 1 |
Specimen of the Mountaineer or Shefhatapooſhſhoiſh Skof | 16 |
General John Winflows Letter to the Earl of Halifax | 34 |
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