The Scots Magazine, Volume 43Sands, Brymer, Murray and Cochran, 1781 - English literature |
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... state of neutrality , and all previous treaties were of courfe abfolved and done away [ 42 . 214. ] . Is it then a ... States - General whatever . This complaint , therefore , was no juft foun- dation for a commencement of hoftilities ...
... state of neutrality , and all previous treaties were of courfe abfolved and done away [ 42 . 214. ] . Is it then a ... States - General whatever . This complaint , therefore , was no juft foun- dation for a commencement of hoftilities ...
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... States - General gave no fatisfactory answer to our memorial : they equipped a few fhips indeed ; but for fo far different a purpose from that of affifting their ally , they were defigned to convoy naval ftores into the ports of France ...
... States - General gave no fatisfactory answer to our memorial : they equipped a few fhips indeed ; but for fo far different a purpose from that of affifting their ally , they were defigned to convoy naval ftores into the ports of France ...
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... States- General of the United Provinces , and their fubjects . We obferve , with much concern and just indignation , that the governing part of a nation , whom the ties of common intereft , and the faith of mutual engage ments , fhould ...
... States- General of the United Provinces , and their fubjects . We obferve , with much concern and just indignation , that the governing part of a nation , whom the ties of common intereft , and the faith of mutual engage ments , fhould ...
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... state in fact might be termed a continual picquet , I order- ed them to return to their huts on Long ifland . Thus reinforced , the total number of the revolters now amounts to 2200 men , and are daily increasing . Gen. Wayne overtook ...
... state in fact might be termed a continual picquet , I order- ed them to return to their huts on Long ifland . Thus reinforced , the total number of the revolters now amounts to 2200 men , and are daily increasing . Gen. Wayne overtook ...
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... State to take fome fa- vourable notice of thofe who engaged for the war . The commiffioners will attend at Tren- ton , where the cloathing and the ftores will be immediately brought , and the regi . ments to be fettled with in their ...
... State to take fome fa- vourable notice of thofe who engaged for the war . The commiffioners will attend at Tren- ton , where the cloathing and the ftores will be immediately brought , and the regi . ments to be fettled with in their ...
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