Annals of Great Britain: From the Ascension of George III, to the Peace of Amiens ...Mundell, 1807 |
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... commander , to make one division service- able in two ways , he ordered the same forces de- stined to relieve Colberg to plunder the Russian stores . This last object General Platen accom- plished . The Russians , hearing of their loss ...
... commander , to make one division service- able in two ways , he ordered the same forces de- stined to relieve Colberg to plunder the Russian stores . This last object General Platen accom- plished . The Russians , hearing of their loss ...
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... commander in chief of North America , detached his brother , Colonel Amherst , with a small body of troops , who succeeded in recovering the place , and re - annexing it to our dominion . On our part , the expedition to Buenos Ayres was ...
... commander in chief of North America , detached his brother , Colonel Amherst , with a small body of troops , who succeeded in recovering the place , and re - annexing it to our dominion . On our part , the expedition to Buenos Ayres was ...
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... commander in chief of the British forces . The army , which we before mentioned as the third corps of the enemy destined for the invasion of Portugal , assembled on the frontiers of Estre- madura , with an intention of penetrating into ...
... commander in chief of the British forces . The army , which we before mentioned as the third corps of the enemy destined for the invasion of Portugal , assembled on the frontiers of Estre- madura , with an intention of penetrating into ...
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... commander detached a small force for the relief of fort De- troit , which , meeting the Indians at the pass , was so severely handled , as to be under the necessity of retreating into the fort , with the loss of seventy killed and forty ...
... commander detached a small force for the relief of fort De- troit , which , meeting the Indians at the pass , was so severely handled , as to be under the necessity of retreating into the fort , with the loss of seventy killed and forty ...
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... commanders to whose abilities fortune seemed not to have done justice , having seldom favoured him with victory ; yet , among judges of military merit , he was held in high esteem , his talents having been conspicuous in many instances ...
... commanders to whose abilities fortune seemed not to have done justice , having seldom favoured him with victory ; yet , among judges of military merit , he was held in high esteem , his talents having been conspicuous in many instances ...
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Էջ 418 - Protestant religion, of this country, against the arbitrary cruelties of popery and the inquisition, if these more than popish cruelties and inquisitorial practices are let loose among us ; to turn forth into our settlements among our ancient connections, friends, and relations, the merciless cannibal, thirsting for the blood of man, woman, and child!
Էջ 122 - It is my opinion, that this kingdom has no right to lay a tax upon the colonies. At the same time I assert the authority of this kingdom over the colonies to be sovereign and supreme in every circumstance of government and legislation whatsoever.
Էջ 417 - Bench to defend and support the justice of their country : I call upon the bishops...
Էջ 415 - ... of the woods — to delegate to the merciless Indian the defence of disputed rights, and to wage the horrors of his barbarous war against our brethren? My lords, these enormities cry aloud for redress and punishment : unless thoroughly done away, it will be a stain on the national character.
Էջ 123 - House. I would fain know by whom an American is represented here. Is he represented by any knight of the shire in any county in this kingdom? Would to God that respectable representation was augmented to a greater number!
Էջ xii - Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton; and the peculiar happiness of my life will ever consist in promoting the welfare of a people, whose loyalty and warm affection to me, I consider as the greatest and most permanent security of my throne...
Էջ 417 - That God and nature put into our hands! " I know not what ideas that Lord may entertain of God and nature, but I know that such abominable principles are equally abhorrent to religion and humanity. What ! to attribute the sacred sanction of God and nature to the massacres of the Indian scalping-knife — to the cannibal savage, torturing, murdering...
Էջ 122 - Taxation is no part of the governing or legislative power. The taxes are a voluntary gift and grant of the Commons alone. In legislation the three estates of the realm are alike concerned ; but the concurrence of the peers and the Crown to a tax is only necessary to clothe it with the form of a law. The gift and grant is of the Commons alone.
Էջ 285 - Tis liberty to liberty engaged," that they will defend themselves, their families, and their country. In this great cause they are immovably allied: it is the alliance of God and nature — immutable, eternal — fixed as the firmament of heaven.
Էջ 126 - America is obstinate ; America is almost in open rebellion. I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.