The History of an Expedition Against Fort Du Quesne, in 1755 Under Major-General Edward Braddock, Volume 6Winthrop Sargent Lippincott, Grambo, & Company, 1855 - 423 pages Contains a history of Braddock's Campaign in 1755 against Fort Duquesne. |
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... once more the lilies were planted upon the bastions of Louis- bourg , there glowed in the breast of every true Briton the burning embers of mortified vanity , the but half - smothered lust of fierce revenge . From the throng of ...
... once more the lilies were planted upon the bastions of Louis- bourg , there glowed in the breast of every true Briton the burning embers of mortified vanity , the but half - smothered lust of fierce revenge . From the throng of ...
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... once established in their midst , it would not be difficult to prevent the savages from supplying the English dealers , or receiving in turn their commodities . The peltry traffic , so profitable to European commerce , had already to be ...
... once established in their midst , it would not be difficult to prevent the savages from supplying the English dealers , or receiving in turn their commodities . The peltry traffic , so profitable to European commerce , had already to be ...
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... country and her colonies - to how many thousands of souls it gave a support : nothing can be more evident than that such an attack upon the productiveness of the one must at once affect their value to the other INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR . 23.
... country and her colonies - to how many thousands of souls it gave a support : nothing can be more evident than that such an attack upon the productiveness of the one must at once affect their value to the other INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR . 23.
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Winthrop Sargent. one must at once affect their value to the other , and thus render them , day by day , less important , and less self- capable of preservation . In short , as was well said in the House of Commons , the French held the ...
Winthrop Sargent. one must at once affect their value to the other , and thus render them , day by day , less important , and less self- capable of preservation . In short , as was well said in the House of Commons , the French held the ...
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... once established , and a garri- son maintained there on some specious pretext ; a judicious distribution of red ochre , gewgaws , fire - arms , and rum ; and it would be easy enough to get an absolute title from the Indians.1 This was ...
... once established , and a garri- son maintained there on some specious pretext ; a judicious distribution of red ochre , gewgaws , fire - arms , and rum ; and it would be easy enough to get an absolute title from the Indians.1 This was ...
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48th Regiment advanced party Aid de Camp Alexandria America appointed arms army arrived artillery Assembly baggage Braddock camp Canada Capt Captain Colonel Dunbar colonies command Conrad Weiser Contrecœur Crown Cumberland defeat Delawares desired detachment Dinwiddie Duke of Cumberland Dunbar Edward Braddock encamped enemy English expedition fire flanks Fort Cumberland Fort Necessity French Gage Garneau garrison General's Governor Governor Dinwiddie Grenadiers Guards Halket Hist hundred Indians Iroquois John St Clair July killed land Lieut Lieutenant Colonel Maryland Meadows ment miles Mirepoix Monongahela Morris never night occasion officers Ohio ordered Orme passed Penn Pennsylvania Peter Halket Philadelphia pickets Pouchot proper province provisions Quebec Quesne rank received remained river road Royal Highness savages scalped scene sent Shawanoes Shirley Sir Peter Six Nations soldiers Sparks's St John St subalterns tion troops Virginia waggons warriors Washington Will's Creek wounded
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Page 134 - Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will even do according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them : and I will make myself known among them, when I have judged thee.
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Page 113 - Braddock, you are a poor dog! Here, take my purse. If you kill me, you will be forced to run away, and then you will not have a shilling to support you.
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