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To- morrow and the day after will be employed in making dispositions for covering a landing, which will be done with continentals discumbered of baggage; and on the 5th, agreeable to the count's desire, a junction will be made of our troops.
All modern or mediaeval books of information, all the standard text-books in the Sciences and Arts, that had been written by Englishmen themselves or by Continentals, were in the common Latin; the library of such books, original or translated, in the vernacular was yet but scanty. One could not be learned by means of English alone.
Their feet, however, became terribly blistered, and, like the Continentals at Valley Forge, their tracks were marked with blood.
That under such unexpected ill-fortune he did not immediately sink was due to two things the greatness of his powers, and the circumstance that a trading-company of Continentals, chiefly German, was seated in London with immense wealth and immense influence at its disposal, and that they were men who knew how to appreciate Holbein at his worth.
This inconsiderable event elated Greene's army and was considered by them as a good omen of success under their new leader. General Greene's situation was embarrassing. His army was feeble, consisting, on the 8th of December , of 2,029 infantry, of whom 1,482 were in camp and 547 in detachments; 821 were Continentals and 1,208 were militia.
Captain Pierce is fondly beloved and highly respected by his former command, as well as by the younger members of the company, who, having "fallen in" to fill up the ranks which time and death have decimated, are striving nobly to uphold the name and fame of the Continentals.
On the present occasion Pauline was one of the friends upon whom Zulma called, and naturally her first business was to acquaint her with the landing of the Continentals. She was surprised to find that the intelligence caused a deathly pallor to spread over the features of her companion. "The siege will begin in earnest, and we shall be cut off from all the world," murmured Pauline.
But we continentals have our grievous reputation because we dare to meet as intellectual beings, and defy the imputation that ladies and gentlemen are no better than animals. It sounded very lofty to Caroline, who, accepting its sincerity, replied: 'I cannot do things by halves. I cannot live a life of deceit. A life of misery not deceit.
Hung on a little post, and over a pair of rather suspicious-looking buckskin breeches, is a rusty helmet, which he sincerely believes was worn by a knight of the days of William the Conqueror. A little counter to the left staggers under a pile of musty old books and mustier papers, all containing valuable matter relating to the old Continentals, who, as he has it, were all Carolinians. These Mr.
And he quite understood that he had been forced to give a good deal for nothing ever since the American commissioners had authorized their famishing army to commandeer his supplies and pay him with their worthless 'Continentals. From St Johns the worn-out Americans crawled homewards in stray, exhausted parties, dropping fast by the way as they went.
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