The History of the Rise, Progress, and Establishment, of the Independence of the United States of America: Including an Account of the Late War; and of the Thirteen Colonies, from Their Origin to that Period, Volumen 4author, 1788 |
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... meets , p . 10 . The kindness of the Spaniards to the British prifoners , p . 14 . The inquifition abolished in the duke of Modena's dominions , P. 15 . LETTER II . P. 16-67 . The Pennfylvania line revolts , p . 16. Sir H. Clinton sends ...
... meets , p . 10 . The kindness of the Spaniards to the British prifoners , p . 14 . The inquifition abolished in the duke of Modena's dominions , P. 15 . LETTER II . P. 16-67 . The Pennfylvania line revolts , p . 16. Sir H. Clinton sends ...
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... meets Rochambeau at Weathersfield , idem . Washington's letters intercepted and conveyed to New York , p . 122. The French troops join the Americans under Washington , p . 123. The plan of operations changed , and the allied troops ...
... meets Rochambeau at Weathersfield , idem . Washington's letters intercepted and conveyed to New York , p . 122. The French troops join the Americans under Washington , p . 123. The plan of operations changed , and the allied troops ...
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... meet others who would be ap- pointed by Sir Henry , to difcufs and fettle the treaty , and bring matters to a final conclufion . Mean while , the British general paffed over to Staten Island , with a large body of troops , and took the ...
... meet others who would be ap- pointed by Sir Henry , to difcufs and fettle the treaty , and bring matters to a final conclufion . Mean while , the British general paffed over to Staten Island , with a large body of troops , and took the ...
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... meet there on the 24th . Gen. Pickens and lieut . col . Lee , who had intelligence of Tarleton's movements , concerted measures to bring him to action . Lee's cavalry were to attack thofe of Tarleton's command , while Pickens's militia ...
... meet there on the 24th . Gen. Pickens and lieut . col . Lee , who had intelligence of Tarleton's movements , concerted measures to bring him to action . Lee's cavalry were to attack thofe of Tarleton's command , while Pickens's militia ...
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... meet Greene on the way , or to attack him in his encamp- ment . By this , Greene's design of attacking his lord- fhip was anticipated . About three miles from the Ame- rican army , the British advance guard under Tarleton fell in with ...
... meet Greene on the way , or to attack him in his encamp- ment . By this , Greene's design of attacking his lord- fhip was anticipated . About three miles from the Ame- rican army , the British advance guard under Tarleton fell in with ...
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Página 361 - Lawrence from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River; thence down along the middle of that river to the forty-fifth degree of north latitude...
Página 260 - Britain; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.
Página 362 - Lawrence ; comprehending all islands within twenty leagues of any part of the shores of the United States, and lying between lines to be drawn due east from the points where the aforesaid boundaries between Nova Scotia on the one part and East Florida on the other, shall respectively touch the Bay of Fundy and the Atlantic Ocean ; excepting such islands as now are, or heretofore have been, within the limits of the said province of Nova Scotia.
Página 365 - ... his Britannic Majesty shall, with all convenient speed, and without causing any destruction, or carrying away any negroes or other property of the American inhabitants...
Página 419 - Almighty God hath created the mind free ; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the Holy author of our religion...
Página 361 - Cataraquy; thence along the middle of said river into Lake Ontario; through the middle of said lake until it strikes the communication by water between that lake and Lake Erie; thence along the middle of said communication into Lake Erie...
Página 420 - ... to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his powers into the field of opinion, and to restrain the profession or propagation of principles on supposition of their ill tendency, is a dangerous fallacy, which at once destroys all religious liberty, because he being of course judge of that tendency will make his opinions the rule of judgment, and approve or condemn the sentiments of others only as they shall square with or differ from his own; that it is time enough for the rightful purposes of...
Página 421 - ... yet we are free to declare, and do declare, that the rights hereby asserted are of the natural rights of mankind, and that if any act shall be hereafter passed to repeal the present, or to narrow its operation, such act will be an infringement of natural right.
Página 361 - St. Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River...
Página 362 - Cauihouche ; thence along the middle thereof to its junction with the Flint river; thence straight to the head of St. Mary's river; and thence down along the middle of St. Mary's river to the Atlantic ocean.