The History of the Rise, Progress, and Establishment of the Independence of the United States of America, Volume 3Samuel Campbell, no. 124, Pearl-street, 1801 - United States "The following work is not confined to the contest between Great Britain and the United States of America, but includes all the other parts of the war which originated from that contest. ... The form of letters, instead of chapters, is not altogether imaginary, as the author, from his arrival in America in 1770, maintained a correspondence with gentlemen in London, Rotterdam and Paris, answering in general to the prefixed dates."--Preface. |
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... sailed for Europe in company with Mr. Gerard . October the 21st , the honorable Henry Laurens , esq . was elected by ballot to negociate a loan in Holland : on the first of the next month he was chosen to negociate a treaty of amity and ...
... sailed for Europe in company with Mr. Gerard . October the 21st , the honorable Henry Laurens , esq . was elected by ballot to negociate a loan in Holland : on the first of the next month he was chosen to negociate a treaty of amity and ...
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... . The application coinciding with the king's instructions , to act in concert with the forces of the United States , whenever whenever an occasion presented itself , he sailed for the 30 [ A .. D. 1779 THE HISTORY OF THE.
... . The application coinciding with the king's instructions , to act in concert with the forces of the United States , whenever whenever an occasion presented itself , he sailed for the 30 [ A .. D. 1779 THE HISTORY OF THE.
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William Gordon. whenever an occasion presented itself , he sailed for the Ameri- can continent within a few days after it was received . When through the windward passage , he dispatched two ships of the line and three frigates to ...
William Gordon. whenever an occasion presented itself , he sailed for the Ameri- can continent within a few days after it was received . When through the windward passage , he dispatched two ships of the line and three frigates to ...
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... sailed at night , and reached New - York on the 27th . They were in sufficient force while at Newport , to have made predatory excursions , and to have done much mischief ; notwithstanding the troops that Gen. Gates , who was stationed ...
... sailed at night , and reached New - York on the 27th . They were in sufficient force while at Newport , to have made predatory excursions , and to have done much mischief ; notwithstanding the troops that Gen. Gates , who was stationed ...
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... sailed under the convoy of Adm . Arbuthnot , on the 26th of December . Their operations will be related in a future letter . Congress having obtained satisfactory evidence of what was in contemplation , had ordered on the 10th of ...
... sailed under the convoy of Adm . Arbuthnot , on the 26th of December . Their operations will be related in a future letter . Congress having obtained satisfactory evidence of what was in contemplation , had ordered on the 10th of ...
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