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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 213 57 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10 189 23 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8 53 1 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 9 1 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 7 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 3 3 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: November 15, 1860., [Electronic resource] 2 2 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 7. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 1 1 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition. 1 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 2. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 1 1 Browse Search
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on, and one week after, defeated the English at Princeton. He plucked safety even from defeat. He made his very reverses conduce to his victory; for his enemy would never have exposed himself as he did, had he not believed him no longer capable of molesting him. To such an extent was this confidence indulged in, that Lord Cornwallis wrote to General Howe, but a day or two before the battle of Trenton, "I will engage to keep the peace Jersey with a corporal's guard." Again: When Sir Henry Clinton captured Charleston, he made prisoners of the whole American army. The American General, Lincoln, had made the fate of the campaign turn on the possession of that city.--This policy was condemned by Col. Tarleton in his "campaigns, " as the height of folly.--He should, said that officer, have left Charleston to its fate, and retired to the country, whence he could have kept up such a war as Washington waged upon the North river and the Delaware. Unquestionably, that was the true doct