 Washington had hardly put off his uniform, after the peace of 1783, when he was planning for a western trip, and his diary on the third day of that trip of six hundred and eighty miles shows that his one object was to obtain information of the nearest...  The French in the Heart of America - Página 188por John Finley, John Huston Finley - 1915 - 431 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Archer Butler Hulbert - 1904 - 220 páginas
...number of persons including General Morgan. " . . one object of my journey being," his Journal reads, '' to obtain information of the nearest and best communication between the Eastern & Western Waters; & to facilitate as much as in me lay the Inland Navigation of the Potomack; I conversed... | |
 | Archer Butler Hulbert - 1904 - 216 páginas
...number of persons including General Morgan. " . . one object of my journey being," his Journal reads, " to obtain information of the nearest and best communication between the Eastern & Western Waters; & to facilitate as much as in me lay the Inland Navigation of the Potomack; I conversed... | |
 | George Washington - 1905 - 258 páginas
...fact, he had not been gone three days before he wrote in the diary that " one object" of his journey was "to obtain information of the nearest and best communication between the Eastern and Western Waters; and to facilitate as much as in me lay the Inland Navigation of the Potomack." This... | |
 | George Washington - 1905 - 256 páginas
...fact, he had not been gone three days before he wrote in the diary that " one object" of his journey was "to obtain information of the nearest and best communication between the Eastern and Western Waters; and to facilitate as much as in me lay the Inland Navigation of the Potomack." This... | |
 | 1910 - 378 páginas
...Yernon on the first day of September, 1784, and from its pages we learn that one object of his journey was "to obtain information of the nearest and best communication between the Eastern & Western Waters; & to facilitate as much as in me lays the Inland Navigation of the Potomack. " This... | |
 | 1916 - 608 páginas
...rebel. And she made it possible for him to be first in peace" (p. 313). In 1784 he visited this valley " to obtain information of the nearest and best communication between the Eastern and Western waters" (p. 322), and called attention to the importance of opening communication with the... | |
 | Augustus White Long - 1917 - 458 páginas
...beckoned him on to ever new frontiers: the buffalo, the coureur de bois, the engineer — in turn. Washington had hardly put off his uniform, after the...communication between the Eastern and the Western waters.” He expected the canal to erase the Alleghanies from the map, but the railroad accomplished this gigantic... | |
 | George Washington - 1925 - 480 páginas
...Mr. Trickett s and many other Gentlemen came here to see me — and one object of my journey being to obtain information of the nearest and best communication between the Eastern and Western Waters; and to facilitate as much as in me lay the Inland Navigation of the Potomack; I conversed... | |
 | Dorothy Anne Dondore - 1926 - 698 páginas
...to private life, he made his tour of 1784, designed chiefly to secure his western lands but in part "to obtain information of the nearest and best communication between the Eastern & Western Waters; & to facilitate as much as in me lay, the Inland Navigation of the Potomach,'' 12... | |
 | Eugene Ernst Prussing - 1927 - 588 páginas
...Pennsylvania and to look after his large land holdings there and along the Ohio and Kanawha rivers, but also " to obtain information of the nearest and best communication between the Eastern and Western waters, and to facilitate as much as in me lay, the inland navigation of the Potomac." He made... | |
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