The Leading Facts of American HistoryGinn & Company, 1895 - 365 pages |
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Page 126
... followed the Mississippi to the Gulf , as they intended ; but who will say that they had not made a good beginning ? - 133. La Salle reaches the Mouth of the Mississippi . Six years later ( 1679 ) La Salle , 2 the greatest of the French ...
... followed the Mississippi to the Gulf , as they intended ; but who will say that they had not made a good beginning ? - 133. La Salle reaches the Mouth of the Mississippi . Six years later ( 1679 ) La Salle , 2 the greatest of the French ...
Page 145
... followed perhaps by a fox - hunt , or some other sport , the next day . But if the times were hospitable , they were also somewhat rough and In the Pillory . even brutal . A trifling offence would often send a man to the stocks for ...
... followed perhaps by a fox - hunt , or some other sport , the next day . But if the times were hospitable , they were also somewhat rough and In the Pillory . even brutal . A trifling offence would often send a man to the stocks for ...
Page 169
... followed the retreat- ing Americans sometimes at a distance , then again close on their heels . There were times when the British would be entering a town just as our men were hurrying out of it . Many patriots began to despair of ...
... followed the retreat- ing Americans sometimes at a distance , then again close on their heels . There were times when the British would be entering a town just as our men were hurrying out of it . Many patriots began to despair of ...
Page 176
... followed was a terrible one . While Howe and his officers were living luxuriously in Philadelphia , Washington's men , " naked and starving , " were dying of putrid fever on the frozen hillsides 1 Minister : see note 3 , page 185 ...
... followed was a terrible one . While Howe and his officers were living luxuriously in Philadelphia , Washington's men , " naked and starving , " were dying of putrid fever on the frozen hillsides 1 Minister : see note 3 , page 185 ...
Page 177
... followed them up sharply . A battle was fought at Monmouth ( June 28 , 1778 ) . It would have ended in a brilliant victory for our side , if General Charles Lee , 2 who unfortunately had come back to us , had done his duty . He acted ...
... followed them up sharply . A battle was fought at Monmouth ( June 28 , 1778 ) . It would have ended in a brilliant victory for our side , if General Charles Lee , 2 who unfortunately had come back to us , had done his duty . He acted ...
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