Historical and Topographical Guide to Valley ForgeJohn C. Winston Company, 1912 - 166 páginas |
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HISTORICAL & TOPOGRAPHICAL GT W. Herbert (William Herbert) 1867 Burk Sin vista previa disponible - 2016 |
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American History Anthony Wayne arms ARTILLERY Battle Betzwood bridge BRIGADIER-GENERAL British built Camp Road CAPT Centreville Centreville Road Cloister COLONEL Colonies command Commission has placed Congress Connecticut CONTINENTAL ARMY Conway Cabal crossed Daughters DECEMBER 19 earthworks EBENEZER LEARNED encampment feet flag following inscription Forge Park Commission George Washington Gulph Mills Gulph Road HERBERT BURK hill honor Huntington Redoubt Huntington's Brigade huts INFANTRY ington Inner Line Boulevard intrenchments James Jersey John Knox's LIEUT LIEUTENANT-COLONEL MAJOR-GENERAL marker MASSACHUSETTS MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY Mount Joy Muhlenberg Museum of American NATHANIEL GREENE Norristown NORTH CAROLINA INFANTRY officers Patriots Pennsylvania Philadelphia Phoenixville Port Kennedy Potts President quarters REGIMENT INFANTRY Revolution River Road SAMUEL Schuylkill soldiers Sullivan tablet THOMAS tion troops Valley Creek Valley Forge Museum Valley Forge Park Varnum's VIRGINIA INFANTRY Wash Washington Lane Washington Memorial Chapel Washington Redoubt Washington's Headquarters Washington's Marquee Waterman Monument Wayne Weedon William
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Página 57 - My Godfathers and Godmothers in my Baptism ; wherein I was made a member of Christ, the child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven.
Página 55 - Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.
Página 125 - ... houses on the same account,) we have, by a field return this day made, no less than two thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight men now in camp unfit for duty, because they are barefoot and otherwise naked.
Página 118 - Sir ; A letter, which I received last night, contained the following paragraph; " In a letter from General Conway to General Gates he says, ' Heaven has been determined to save your country, or a weak General and bad counsellors would have ruined it.
Página 84 - A moment there was awful pause — When Berkley cried, "Cease, traitor! cease, God's temple is the house of peace!" The other shouted, " Nay, not so, When God is with our righteous cause; His holiest places then are ours, His temples are our forts and towers That frown upon the tyrant's foe ; In this, the dawn of freedom's day, There is a time to fight and pray...
Página 125 - ... in camp unfit for duty, because they are barefoot, and otherwise naked. By the same return, it appears that our whole strength in continental troops, including the Eastern brigades, which have joined us since the surrender of General Burgoyne, exclusive of the Maryland troops sent to Wilmington, amounts to no more than eight thousand two hundred in camp fit for duty ; notwithstanding which, and that since the 4th...
Página 84 - So loud and clear, it seem'd the ear Of dusty death must wake and hear. And there the startling drum and fife Fired the living with fiercer life; While overhead, with wild increase, Forgetting its ancient toll of peace, The great bell swung as ne'er before : It seemed as it would never cease; And every word its ardor flung From off its jubilant iron tongue Was "War! War! War!
Página 55 - I consider it an indispensable duty to close this last act of my official life by commending the interests of our dearest country to the protection of Almighty God, and those who have the superintendence of them to his holy keeping.
Página 125 - We find gentlemen, without knowing whether the army was really going into winter-quarters or not (for I am sure no resolution of mine would warrant the remonstrance), reprobating the measure as much as if they thought the soldiers were made of stocks or stones, and equally insensible of frost and snow ; and moreover, as if they conceived it easily practicable...
Página 54 - While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and Soldiers we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion. To the distinguished character of Patriot it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian.