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... Fleet under Count d'Estaing . — Plans for combined Operations between the Fleet and the American Army . Failure of an Attempt against the Enemy at Rhode Island . Cantonments of the Army for the Winter . -- Exchange of Prisoners ...
... Fleet under Count d'Estaing . — Plans for combined Operations between the Fleet and the American Army . Failure of an Attempt against the Enemy at Rhode Island . Cantonments of the Army for the Winter . -- Exchange of Prisoners ...
Page xix
... Fleet blockaded . - Interview between General Washing- ton and the French Commander at Hartford . - The Treason of Arnold . Plans for attacking New York . - - CHAPTER XIII . . 316 Mutiny of the Pennsylvania and New Jersey Troops ...
... Fleet blockaded . - Interview between General Washing- ton and the French Commander at Hartford . - The Treason of Arnold . Plans for attacking New York . - - CHAPTER XIII . . 316 Mutiny of the Pennsylvania and New Jersey Troops ...
Page 145
... fleet . It was also advised , without a dissenting voice , that the posts now occupied should be held and defended , and that twenty - two thousand men were necessary to give proper security to so long an extent of lines . A place of ...
... fleet . It was also advised , without a dissenting voice , that the posts now occupied should be held and defended , and that twenty - two thousand men were necessary to give proper security to so long an extent of lines . A place of ...
Page 167
... fleet in the harbour of Boston for some secret enterprise . Its destination could only be conjectured ; but the season of the year and other circumstances induced a belief , that an operation at the south was in view . Fears were ...
... fleet in the harbour of Boston for some secret enterprise . Its destination could only be conjectured ; but the season of the year and other circumstances induced a belief , that an operation at the south was in view . Fears were ...
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... fleet from Boston , having on board several regiments under the command of General Clinton , sailed to North Carolina , in the prosecution of a plan previously formed in the British cabinet , at the recommendation of Governor Martin ...
... fleet from Boston , having on board several regiments under the command of General Clinton , sailed to North Carolina , in the prosecution of a plan previously formed in the British cabinet , at the recommendation of Governor Martin ...
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