The History of Georgia: Revolutionary epochHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1883 |
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affairs Alatamaha American appointed Archibald Bulloch arms army artillery attack Augusta battalion British Bulloch camp Captain capture Charlestown Cherokees Colonel Brown Colonel Campbell Colonel Clarke Colonel Elbert colonies command conduct Continental Congress council of safety Count d'Estaing Creek detachment duty East Florida Ebenezer enemy executive council expedition fire forces Fort Prince George Fort Tonyn Fuser galleys garrison George George McIntosh Governor Wright guns Gwinnett Habersham History of Georgia honor House of Assembly Houstoun hundred Indians inhabitants James Wright John killed king's Lachlan McIntosh land letter liberty Lieutenant Lieutenant-Colonel light infantry Lord loyalists Majesty Majesty's Major McCall's History McGirth McIntosh ment miles militia Moultrie negroes officers Ogeechee Parish Parliament party patriots persons Pickens plantation present president Prevost prisoners Province of Georgia rebel regiment resolutions resolved retreat royal Savannah River ship South Carolina Sunbury surrender swamp tion town vessels William wounded
Passatges populars
Pàgina 55 - They nourished up by your indulgence ! They grew by your neglect of them. As soon as you began to care about them, that care was exercised in sending persons to rule them in one department and another who were, perhaps, the deputies of deputies to some members of this
Pàgina 66 - royal master. Then came the voice of the Great Commoner, speaking like one inspired : " I rejoice that America has resisted. . . . The gentleman asks when were the Colonies emancipated? I desire to know when they were made slaves? ... In a good cause, on a sound bottom, the force of this country can crush America
Pàgina 182 - as president and of George Walton as secretary. Both these officers were unanimously chosen. Its organization having been perfected, the body adjourned to the meeting-house of the Rev. Dr. John J. Zubly, who preached a sermon on the alarming state of American affairs, selecting as his text " So speak ye and so do as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.
Pàgina 56 - that the inhabitants of that colony inherited from the first settlers of that dominion equal franchises with the people of Great Britain; that this equality had been declared in royal charters; that taxation by themselves, or by persons chosen by themselves to represent them, was the distinguishing characteristic of British freedom and of the
Pàgina 452 - and also those who will not turn out shall be imprisoned and their whole property taken from them or destroyed. I have ordered in the most positive manner that every militia man who has borne arms with us, and
Pàgina 27 - as the ratification of the definitive treaty of peace between Great Britain and Spain, if it has taken effect, is not notified, it would be premature in any of his Majesty's Governors to proceed as tho' it actually was notified: And from the state and
Pàgina 452 - joined the enemy, shall be immediately hanged. I desire you will take the most rigourous measures to punish the rebels in the district in which you command, and that you obey in the strictest manner the directions I have given in this letter relative to the inhabitants
Pàgina 184 - fellow-subjects in Great Britain and Ireland, and the West Indies, induces us to suspend a non-exportation until the tenth day of September, 1775, at which time, if the acts and parts of acts of the British Parliament hereinafter mentioned are not repealed, we will not directly or indirectly export any merchandise or commodity whatsoever to Great Britain, Ireland, or the West Indies, except rice to Europe. "7th.
Pàgina 27 - Esqr. his Majesty's Captain General and Governor in Chief in and over the Province of Georgia, against any warrants being issued or attempts made to survey any lands to the southward of the river Alatamaha by pretence or colour of any right or authority from or under the said Thomas Boone as
Pàgina 378 - PS I apprize your Excellency that I have not been able to refuse the Army of the United States uniting itself with that of the King. The junction will probably be effected this day. If I have not an answer therefore immediately, you must confer in future with General Lincoln and me.