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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10 16 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1 15 3 Browse Search
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman) 10 2 Browse Search
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874. 8 0 Browse Search
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 4. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier) 4 0 Browse Search
The Soldiers' Monument in Cambridge: Proceedings in relation to the building and dedication of the monument erected in the years, 1869-1870. 4 0 Browse Search
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 4 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition. 4 0 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 I. 4 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore) 2 2 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 9: (search)
eed that the country must confine itself to a defensive campaign. Writings of Washington, ed. Sparks, VI. 217. Measures for the relief of the national treasury were postponed by congress from dthout subsistence, augured the reduction of the army to a shadow. Writings of Washington, ed. Sparks, VI. 168. Few of them were willing to remain on the existing establishment, and congress was aveassachusetts, sometimes in Virginia, levies were raised by draft. Writings of Washington, ed. Sparks, VI. 156. Four years of hard service and of reflection had ripened in Washington the convictr common country, America, our noble cause, the cause of mankind. Writings of Washington, ed. Sparks, VI. 211. But to the men of Virginia he unbosomed himself more freely. His was the eloquence ofe, we shall not be able to call out the resources of the country. Writings of Washington, ed. Sparks, VI. 252, note. While Washington reasoned that the British ministers plainly intended to pro
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 10: (search)
prospering, with inhabitants so cultivated, had not in that day its parallel in England. The husbandmen who came together were too few to withstand the unforeseen onslaught. The Hessians were the first who were let loose to plunder, and every dwelling was given up to be stripped. Just before the sun went down, the firing of houses began, and was kept up through the night with little opposition, amidst the vain cries of distressed women and helpless children. Writings of Washington, ed. Sparks, VI. 367. Early the next morning the conflagration was made general. 8. When at the return of night the retreat was sounded, the rear-guard, composed of Germans, set in flames the meeting-house and every private habitation that till then had escaped. At Green Farms, a meeting-house and all dwellings and barns were consumed. On the eleventh, the British appeared before Nor- 11. walk, and burned its houses, barns, and places of public worship. Sir George Collier and Tryon, the British a
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 14: (search)
trance to the Ashley river. Clinton, trusting nothing to hazard, moved slowly along a coast intersected by creeks and checkered with islands. The delay brought greater disasters on the state. Lincoln used the time to draw into Charleston all the resources of the southern department of which he could dispose. Collecting the whole force for the defence of Charleston, thought Washington, is putting much to hazard. I dread the event. Washington to Steuben in Writings of Washington, ed. Sparks, VII. 10. But he was too remote to be heard in time. The period of enlistment of the North Carolina Chap. XIV.} 1780. April 7. militia having expired, most of them returned home. On the seventh of April, the remains of the Virginia line, seven hundred veterans, entered Charleston, having in twenty-eight days marched five hundred miles to certain captivity. On the ninth, Arbuthnot, taking advantage of a 9. gentle east wind, brought his ships into the harbor, without suffering from Fo
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 21: (search)
minister at Philadelphia had reported these words from Greene: The states in the southern department may struggle a little while longer; but without more effectual support they must fall. Washington represented immediate and efficacious succor from abroad as indispensable to the safety of his country; but, combined with maritime superiority, and a decided effort of the allied arms on this continent, so he wrote, it would bring the contest to a glorious issue. Writings of Washington, ed. Sparks, VII. 368. In pressing the demands of congress, the youthful envoy said menacingly that the failure of his mission might drive the Americans back to their old allegiance, to fight once more against France in the armies of Great Britain. The confession of the inefficiency of their own general government was suited to raise a doubt of their power finally to establish their independence; and Vergennes complained that an excessive and ever-increasing proportion of the burdens of the war was thr