The History of Connecticut: From the First Settlement to the Present TimeHarper & Brothers, 1840 - 450 páginas |
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... Colonel Dugan Governor of New - York . -Accession of King James II . - Randolph arrives from Eng- land to examine the Charters of the Colonies . - Sir Edmund Andross made Governor of New - England . - He marches to Hartford with a Body ...
... Colonel Dugan Governor of New - York . -Accession of King James II . - Randolph arrives from Eng- land to examine the Charters of the Colonies . - Sir Edmund Andross made Governor of New - England . - He marches to Hartford with a Body ...
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... Colonel Fletcher demands the Mili- tia of Connecticut to be placed at his Orders . - He is refused . -The Boldness of Captain Wadsworth Page 210 CHAPTER XXVII . 1694 . Military Preparations . - The Question about the Militia settled in ...
... Colonel Fletcher demands the Mili- tia of Connecticut to be placed at his Orders . - He is refused . -The Boldness of Captain Wadsworth Page 210 CHAPTER XXVII . 1694 . Military Preparations . - The Question about the Militia settled in ...
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... Colonel Monckton obtains Possession of Nova Scotia . - Braddock's Defeat and Death . - Battle of Lake George , and Defeat and Death of General Dieskau .-- Governor Shirley unsuccessful against Fort Frontignac CHAPTER XXXV . 1756 . 280 ...
... Colonel Monckton obtains Possession of Nova Scotia . - Braddock's Defeat and Death . - Battle of Lake George , and Defeat and Death of General Dieskau .-- Governor Shirley unsuccessful against Fort Frontignac CHAPTER XXXV . 1756 . 280 ...
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... Colonel Bradstreet . - General Forbes captures Fort Du Quesne . - The Campaign of 1759.- General Amherst ex- pels the French from Ticonderoga and Crown Point . - Builds a Fortress at the latter Place . - Fort Niagara taken by General ...
... Colonel Bradstreet . - General Forbes captures Fort Du Quesne . - The Campaign of 1759.- General Amherst ex- pels the French from Ticonderoga and Crown Point . - Builds a Fortress at the latter Place . - Fort Niagara taken by General ...
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... Colonel Knowlton . - News of the Dis- asters in Canada . - Troops sent thither.- Preparations to evacuate Boston . - Washington_occupies Lechmere's Point and Dorchester Heights . - The British retire in Haste . - The Americans enter and ...
... Colonel Knowlton . - News of the Dis- asters in Canada . - Troops sent thither.- Preparations to evacuate Boston . - Washington_occupies Lechmere's Point and Dorchester Heights . - The British retire in Haste . - The Americans enter and ...
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History of Connecticut: From the First Settlement to the Present Time Theodore Dwight Vista completa - 1859 |
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Pasajes populares
Página 74 - Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven: therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
Página 255 - ... that from a sincere regard to, and zeal for, upholding the protestant religion, by a succession of learned and orthodox men, they had proposed that a collegiate school should be erected in this colony, wherein youth should be instructed in all parts of learning, to qualify them for public employments in church and civil State...
Página 186 - When sentence of death was passed upon him, he observed " that he liked it well, for he should die before his heart was soft, or he had spoken anything unworthy of himself.
Página 95 - ... to enter into a present consociation amongst ourselves, for mutual help and strength in all our future concernments. That, as in nation and religion, so in other respects, we be and continue one according to the tenor and true meaning of the ensuing articles.
Página 74 - That, as in matters that concern the gathering and ordering of a church, so also in all public offices, which concern civil order, as choice of magistrates and officers, making and repealing laws, dividing allotments of inheritance, and all things of like nature, they would, all of them, be ordered by the rules which the scripture held forth to them.
Página 389 - My brave lads, whither are you going ? Do you intend to desert your officers, and to invite the enemy to follow you into the country ? Whose cause have you been fighting and suffering so long in — is it not your own ? Have you no property, no parents, wives or children ? You have behaved like men so far — all the world is full of your praises — and posterity will stand astonished at your deeds : but not if you spoil all at last. Don't you consider how much the country is distressed by the war,...
Página 80 - Whether the Scriptures do hold forth a perfect rule for the direction and government of all men,' in all duties which they are to perform to God and men, as well iu families and commonwealth, as in matters of the church?
Página 158 - Canada northward ; and also all that island or islands commonly called by the several name or names of Meitowacks, or Long-Island, situate and being towards the west of Cape Cod and the narrow Higansetts, abutting upon the main land, between the two rivers there...
Página 94 - Whereas we all came into these parts of America, with one and the same end, and aim; namely to advance the kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to enjoy the Liberties of the Gospel, in purity with peace.
Página 95 - Colonies for themselves and their posterities do jointly and severally hereby enter into a firm and perpetual league of friendship and amity for offence and defence, mutual advice and succor upon all just occasions both for preserving and propagating the truth and liberties of the Gospel and for their own mutual safety and welfare.