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... French priest , Father Ralle , who had come to this village in 1698 , and been killed when a party from Massachusetts suddenly attacked the place in 1724 . It was the task of Dick and his fellow riflemen to open the way , remove ...
... French priest , Father Ralle , who had come to this village in 1698 , and been killed when a party from Massachusetts suddenly attacked the place in 1724 . It was the task of Dick and his fellow riflemen to open the way , remove ...
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... French habitans , whose humble farms would be the first human abodes reached in Canada . This emissary said that the peasants would give the American army a hospitable reception . Colonel Arnold thereupon chose to precede the army down ...
... French habitans , whose humble farms would be the first human abodes reached in Canada . This emissary said that the peasants would give the American army a hospitable reception . Colonel Arnold thereupon chose to precede the army down ...
Page 170
... French set- tlement , whose first house Arnold had reached on the night of October 30th , and how he had started provisions back towards the army early the next morning . It was two o'clock on Saturday afternoon , Novem- ber 4th , when ...
... French set- tlement , whose first house Arnold had reached on the night of October 30th , and how he had started provisions back towards the army early the next morning . It was two o'clock on Saturday afternoon , Novem- ber 4th , when ...
Page 171
... French settlements , while Colonel Arnold distributed among the Cana- dians a printed manifesto furnished him by General Washington , of which the purpose was to enlist Canadians to the cause of the revolted colonies . On the 7th of ...
... French settlements , while Colonel Arnold distributed among the Cana- dians a printed manifesto furnished him by General Washington , of which the purpose was to enlist Canadians to the cause of the revolted colonies . On the 7th of ...
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... French aristocracy , the Cath- olic priesthood , the French peasants , the few British and Irish immigrants who had come in since the English had taken the country from the French . Thus far , the humble habitans , at least , had given ...
... French aristocracy , the Cath- olic priesthood , the French peasants , the few British and Irish immigrants who had come in since the English had taken the country from the French . Thus far , the humble habitans , at least , had given ...
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Page 42 - Tom he was a piper's son, He learnt to play when he was young ; But all the tune that he could play, Was
Page 43 - prentice Tom may now refuse To wipe his scoundrel master's shoes, For now he's free to sing and play Over the hills and far away.
Page 79 - Or all that about which he hath sworn falsely; he shall even restore it in the principal, and shall add the fifth part more thereto, and give it unto him to whom it appertaineth...
Page 43 - prentice Tom may now refuse To wipe his scoundrel master's shoes, For now he's free to sing and play Over the hills and far away.
Page 148 - Common, where tents and everything necessary is provided for their reception. The rifle company at Roxbury and those from Prospect Hill, to march early tomorrow morning to join the above detachment. Such officers and men as are taken from Gen.
Page 42 - When I was young and had no sense, I bought a fiddle for eighteen pence, And all the tunes that I could play Was
Page 27 - OVER the hills, an' far away, It's over the hills, an' far away, O'er the hills, an' o'er the sea, The wind has blawn my plaid frae me. My tartan plaid, my ae good sheet, That keepit me frae wind an' weet, An' held me bien baith night an' day, Is over the hills, an' far away. There was a wind, it cam to me, Over the south, an' over the sea, An' it has blawn my corn an' hay, Over the hills an
Page 42 - Hark how the drums beat up again For all true soldiers, gentlemen ; Then let us 'list and march, I say, Over the hills and far away.
Page i - His Adventures on a Secret Mission for Queen Elizabeth. By ROBERT NEILSON STEPHENS, author of "An Enemy to the King," "The Continental Dragoon," "The Road to Paris.,
Page 43 - Over the kills, and far away. Courage, boys, it is one to ten But we return all gentlemen ; While conq'ring colours we display, Over the hills, and far away.