The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 1John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell Macmillan, 1929 - Great Britain |
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Page 717
... army in so distant and difficult a theatre of war was well calculated to tax the most efficient administration , let alone the cumbrous , complicated , haphazard machinery by which the British Army of 1775 was controlled.1 The country ...
... army in so distant and difficult a theatre of war was well calculated to tax the most efficient administration , let alone the cumbrous , complicated , haphazard machinery by which the British Army of 1775 was controlled.1 The country ...
Page 733
... army , " must be greatly impeded by the prevailing hostile disposition of the inhabitants " . His progress was certainly leisurely : having landed on 25 August he did not really begin his advance till 3 September or approach Washington's ...
... army , " must be greatly impeded by the prevailing hostile disposition of the inhabitants " . His progress was certainly leisurely : having landed on 25 August he did not really begin his advance till 3 September or approach Washington's ...
Page 751
... army together and maintain the struggle . There had been two serious mutinies among his " Continentals " , whose pay was many months in arrears and whose clothing and equipment were in a deplorable state . He had no money , he was short ...
... army together and maintain the struggle . There had been two serious mutinies among his " Continentals " , whose pay was many months in arrears and whose clothing and equipment were in a deplorable state . He had no money , he was short ...
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