Annual Register, Volume 19Edmund Burke 1779 - History |
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... rendered him apprehenfive that a fchooner of confiderable force , with fome other armed veffels , which lay at the fort of St. John's , on the river Sorel , were preparing to enter the lake , and thereby effectually ob- fruct their ...
... rendered him apprehenfive that a fchooner of confiderable force , with fome other armed veffels , which lay at the fort of St. John's , on the river Sorel , were preparing to enter the lake , and thereby effectually ob- fruct their ...
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... rendered its fate inevi- table . Fortune , however , deter- mined otherwife , and at the time that all hopes of the armed veffels being able to get down the river were given up , and that Montgo- mery was preparing batteaux with light ...
... rendered its fate inevi- table . Fortune , however , deter- mined otherwife , and at the time that all hopes of the armed veffels being able to get down the river were given up , and that Montgo- mery was preparing batteaux with light ...
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... rendered them every other affiftance in their power . Arnold immediately published an addrefs to the people figned by General Washington , of the fame nature with that which had been before iffued by Schuyler and Montgomery . They were ...
... rendered them every other affiftance in their power . Arnold immediately published an addrefs to the people figned by General Washington , of the fame nature with that which had been before iffued by Schuyler and Montgomery . They were ...
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... rendered a total change in his original difpofitions neceffary , and it is not impoffible , that this difarrangement had a confiderable influence on the fuc- ceeding events . However that was , early in the morning , on the laft day of ...
... rendered a total change in his original difpofitions neceffary , and it is not impoffible , that this difarrangement had a confiderable influence on the fuc- ceeding events . However that was , early in the morning , on the laft day of ...
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... yards of the walls , expofed to the whole fire of the garrifon . To render their fate inevitable , a con- fiderable detachment , with feveral our of the raw garrifon would have done credit to field 14 ] HISTORY OF EUROPE .
... yards of the walls , expofed to the whole fire of the garrifon . To render their fate inevitable , a con- fiderable detachment , with feveral our of the raw garrifon would have done credit to field 14 ] HISTORY OF EUROPE .
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