The History of an Expedition Against Fort Du Quesne, in 1755 Under Major-General Edward Braddock, Том 6Winthrop Sargent Lippincott, Grambo, & Company, 1856 - Всего страниц: 423 Contains a history of Braddock's Campaign in 1755 against Fort Duquesne. |
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... horses being all their means of transporting their ammunition , the officers at once added their own steeds to the train ; and , leaving half his baggage behind , Washington , for four pistoles , hired some of the soldiers to carry the ...
... horses being all their means of transporting their ammunition , the officers at once added their own steeds to the train ; and , leaving half his baggage behind , Washington , for four pistoles , hired some of the soldiers to carry the ...
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... horse to assist them , were to traverse fifty miles of inhospitable forests , ere they could reach the nearest halting - place on Will's Creek . The number of savages , hitherto regarded as friendly to the colonies , whom he recognised ...
... horse to assist them , were to traverse fifty miles of inhospitable forests , ere they could reach the nearest halting - place on Will's Creek . The number of savages , hitherto regarded as friendly to the colonies , whom he recognised ...
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... horses and suitable equipages to transport them from the fort at Presqu ' - Isle to the Ohio was also a great embar- rassment . Four hundred of the party expired on the route , either from scurvy or from the fatigues of bearing all this ...
... horses and suitable equipages to transport them from the fort at Presqu ' - Isle to the Ohio was also a great embar- rassment . Four hundred of the party expired on the route , either from scurvy or from the fatigues of bearing all this ...
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... horse- shoe , fatal to witches ; and love - spells and barbarous charms against the dangers of the field were familiar to their lips . Absurd incantations were held in supreme repute as infallible remedies for hemorrhage , toothache ...
... horse- shoe , fatal to witches ; and love - spells and barbarous charms against the dangers of the field were familiar to their lips . Absurd incantations were held in supreme repute as infallible remedies for hemorrhage , toothache ...
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... horses in their annual journey were the only means of communication with the sea - board . For food , the chief reliance was upon the product of the chase , the corn , pumpkins , and potatoes which were cultivated upon the little farm ...
... horses in their annual journey were the only means of communication with the sea - board . For food , the chief reliance was upon the product of the chase , the corn , pumpkins , and potatoes which were cultivated upon the little farm ...
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