The Life of George WashingtonC. Scribner, 1856 - 477 páginas |
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... arms . effect this , an enlistment of two companies of one hundred men each was advised , who should proceed without delay to the Ohio , and erect a fort on its banks . If there were not a sufficient number of volunteers to make up the ...
... arms . effect this , an enlistment of two companies of one hundred men each was advised , who should proceed without delay to the Ohio , and erect a fort on its banks . If there were not a sufficient number of volunteers to make up the ...
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... it in the grief of my heart . " Washington immediately ordered the troops under arms , and pushed forward . Without tents , scantily supplied with clothes and provisions , encamping under the open sky , 44 LIFE OF WASHINGTON .
... it in the grief of my heart . " Washington immediately ordered the troops under arms , and pushed forward . Without tents , scantily supplied with clothes and provisions , encamping under the open sky , 44 LIFE OF WASHINGTON .
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... arms till morning . Soon after daylight a single man was seen moving across the plain toward the fort . This was Gist , who reported the French near by . The day wore on without further cause of alarm ; but at nine o'clock at night the ...
... arms till morning . Soon after daylight a single man was seen moving across the plain toward the fort . This was Gist , who reported the French near by . The day wore on without further cause of alarm ; but at nine o'clock at night the ...
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... arms and prepared to resist . " Fire ! ” cried Washington , and at the same moment dis- charged his musket . A rapid volley followed , and for fif- teen minutes it was sharp work . Jumonville , the French commander , and ten of his men ...
... arms and prepared to resist . " Fire ! ” cried Washington , and at the same moment dis- charged his musket . A rapid volley followed , and for fif- teen minutes it was sharp work . Jumonville , the French commander , and ten of his men ...
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... arms to struggle for a continent . It began the long war which drove France out of America , and made a warlike people of the colonists , who were jealous of their rights . When the revolutionary struggle afterward commenced France was ...
... arms to struggle for a continent . It began the long war which drove France out of America , and made a warlike people of the colonists , who were jealous of their rights . When the revolutionary struggle afterward commenced France was ...
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