Annual Register, Volume 19Edmund Burke 1779 - History |
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... hand , the danger was preffing and great . The ex- traordinary powers placed in the hands of General Carleton , the Governor of Canada , by a late commiffion , were new , alarming , and evidently pointed out the pur- pofes for which ...
... hand , the danger was preffing and great . The ex- traordinary powers placed in the hands of General Carleton , the Governor of Canada , by a late commiffion , were new , alarming , and evidently pointed out the pur- pofes for which ...
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... hand , ful of regular troops in Canada , and the taking of General Carle- ton , which feemed nearly certain , would have rendered its fate inevi- table . Fortune , however , deter- mined otherwife , and at the time that all hopes of the ...
... hand , ful of regular troops in Canada , and the taking of General Carle- ton , which feemed nearly certain , would have rendered its fate inevi- table . Fortune , however , deter- mined otherwife , and at the time that all hopes of the ...
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... hand , with an intention of demanding , or , perhaps , obtain- ing , reftitution of the gun - powder , The Mayor and ... hands in fuch a fituation . Whatever fatisfaction this an- fwer might have afforded to the magiftrates , they ...
... hand , with an intention of demanding , or , perhaps , obtain- ing , reftitution of the gun - powder , The Mayor and ... hands in fuch a fituation . Whatever fatisfaction this an- fwer might have afforded to the magiftrates , they ...
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... hand the raifing and embodying of an armed force , as well as the providing means for its fupport , and purfued every other measure which could tend to place the colony in a strong ftate of de- fence . Whilft they were pursuing thefe ...
... hand the raifing and embodying of an armed force , as well as the providing means for its fupport , and purfued every other measure which could tend to place the colony in a strong ftate of de- fence . Whilft they were pursuing thefe ...
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... hand , and ready to profit , of any favourable occafion that offered . Upon this , or fome fimilar fy- ftem , he by degrees equipped and armed a number of veffels of diffe- rent kinds and fizes , in one of which he conftantly refided ...
... hand , and ready to profit , of any favourable occafion that offered . Upon this , or fome fimilar fy- ftem , he by degrees equipped and armed a number of veffels of diffe- rent kinds and fizes , in one of which he conftantly refided ...
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