The Annals of America: From the Discovery by Columbus in the Year 1492, to the Year 1826, Volume 2Hilliard and Brown, 1829 - America |
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... command of her , and was appointed commodore of the fleet . Alden's Memoir of Edward Tyng , Esq . authentic account of this Douglass , i . 336. Bel- Trumbull , U. S. i . c . 9 . 2 Coll . Mass . Hist . Soc . i . 4-60 ; where there is an ...
... command of her , and was appointed commodore of the fleet . Alden's Memoir of Edward Tyng , Esq . authentic account of this Douglass , i . 336. Bel- Trumbull , U. S. i . c . 9 . 2 Coll . Mass . Hist . Soc . i . 4-60 ; where there is an ...
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... command of it given to Edward Tyng.5 Franklin Benjamin Franklin published an account of his new invented fire places . fire places . Shirley pro- jects the 1746 . THE success of the expedition to Cape Breton confirmed conquest of ...
... command of it given to Edward Tyng.5 Franklin Benjamin Franklin published an account of his new invented fire places . fire places . Shirley pro- jects the 1746 . THE success of the expedition to Cape Breton confirmed conquest of ...
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... command of duke D'Anville , had arrived at Nova Scotia . It consisted of about 40 ships of war , beside transports ; and brought over between 3000 and 4000 regular troops , with veteran officers , and all kinds of military stores ; the ...
... command of duke D'Anville , had arrived at Nova Scotia . It consisted of about 40 ships of war , beside transports ; and brought over between 3000 and 4000 regular troops , with veteran officers , and all kinds of military stores ; the ...
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... command of M. de Ramsay , arrived at Minas , to join the forces expected from France under D'Anville . These Canadian troops had appeared before Annapolis while the French fleet lay at Chebucto ; but , on its departure , they decamped ...
... command of M. de Ramsay , arrived at Minas , to join the forces expected from France under D'Anville . These Canadian troops had appeared before Annapolis while the French fleet lay at Chebucto ; but , on its departure , they decamped ...
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... command of the Virginia regiment , died at Patterson's creek , and the command devolved on colonel Washington , whose detachment in front was joined at Great Meadow by the residue of the regiment . Soon after this junction , two ...
... command of the Virginia regiment , died at Patterson's creek , and the command devolved on colonel Washington , whose detachment in front was joined at Great Meadow by the residue of the regiment . Soon after this junction , two ...
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