The History of New Jersey: From Its Discovery by Europeans, to the Adoption of the Federal ConstitutionD. Fenton, 1834 - 339 páginas |
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... army of 2000 troops , then in the British service , at the Red Bank , on the 22d October , 1777 . Among the wounded was found their commander , COUNT DONOP , who died of his wounds , and whose body is interred near the spot where he ...
... army of 2000 troops , then in the British service , at the Red Bank , on the 22d October , 1777 . Among the wounded was found their commander , COUNT DONOP , who died of his wounds , and whose body is interred near the spot where he ...
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... Army . X. Lord Howe renews his Attempts for accommodation of the Quarrel - Pro- ceedings of Congress . XI . Military Movement of the Armies , after the Battle of Brooklyn . XII . American Army , by advice of General Lee , quit York ...
... Army . X. Lord Howe renews his Attempts for accommodation of the Quarrel - Pro- ceedings of Congress . XI . Military Movement of the Armies , after the Battle of Brooklyn . XII . American Army , by advice of General Lee , quit York ...
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... Army evacuates Philadelphia - March through Jersey . XI . Battle of Monmouth - British Army regains New York . XII . Arrival of the French Fleet - proceeds to Rhode Island . XIII . Attempt on Newport- Appearance of the English Fleet ...
... Army evacuates Philadelphia - March through Jersey . XI . Battle of Monmouth - British Army regains New York . XII . Arrival of the French Fleet - proceeds to Rhode Island . XIII . Attempt on Newport- Appearance of the English Fleet ...
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... army destined for this service , had arrived at Boston , demanded that they should provide three hundred and sixty effective men beside officers , together with the means for their subsistence and pay . The service was one which this ...
... army destined for this service , had arrived at Boston , demanded that they should provide three hundred and sixty effective men beside officers , together with the means for their subsistence and pay . The service was one which this ...
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... army marched to Fort Cum- berland . The loss in this engagement would have been still greater , but for the coolness and courage of the colonial troops . These , whom Braddock had contemptuously placed in his rear , so far from yielding ...
... army marched to Fort Cum- berland . The loss in this engagement would have been still greater , but for the coolness and courage of the colonial troops . These , whom Braddock had contemptuously placed in his rear , so far from yielding ...
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Página 329 - States; to consider how far a uniform system in their commercial regulations may be necessary to their common interest and their permanent harmony; and to report to the several states such an act relative to this great object as, when unanimously ratified by them, will enable the United States in Congress assembled effectually to provide for the same...
Página 330 - That, in the opinion of Congress, it is expedient that, on the second Monday in May next, a convention of delegates who shall have been appointed by the several states, be held at Philadelphia, for the sole and express purpose of revising the articles of confederation, and reporting to Congress, and the several legislatures, such...
Página 162 - ... for contributing their proportion to the common defence (such proportion to be raised under the authority of the general court or general assembly of such province or colony, and disposable by Parliament), and shall engage to make provision also for the support of the civil government and the administration of justice...
Página 179 - That it be recommended to the respective assemblies and conventions of the United Colonies, where no government sufficient to the exigencies of their affairs, has been hitherto established, to adopt such government as shall in the opinion of the representatives of the people, best conduce to the happiness and safety of their constituents in particular, and America in general.
Página 168 - In our own native land, in defence of the freedom that is our birthright, and which we ever enjoyed till the late violation of it — for the protection of our property, acquired solely by the honest industry of our fore-fathers and ourselves, against violence actually offered, we have taken up arms. We shall lay them down when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, and all danger of their being renewed shall be removed, and not before.
Página 200 - DO, in the name and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies, are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states ; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connexion between them and the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved...
Página 188 - That there shall be no establishment of any one religious sect in this province in preference to another ; and that no protestant inhabitant of this colony shall be denied the enjoyment of any civil right, merely on account of his religious principles...
Página 141 - That all supplies to the Crown being free gifts of the people, it is unreasonable and inconsistent with the principles and spirit of the British Constitution, for the people of Great Britain to grant to His Majesty the property of the colonists.
Página 24 - River, and hath upon the west Delaware Bay or river, and extendeth southward to the main ocean as far as Cape May, at the mouth of Delaware *Bay, and to the northward as far as the...
Página 141 - That it is inseparably essential to the freedom of a people, and the undoubted right of Englishmen, that no taxes be imposed on them but with their own consent, given personally or by their representatives.