Mount Vernon and Its Associations: Historical, Biographical, and PictorialW.A. Townsend, 1859 - 376 Seiten This book offers a more personal glimpse at the life of George Washington, as portrayed through the narrative of his home at Mount Vernon. Important house pieces, locations, and so forth are also discussed in their historical importance, and also meaning in the life of Washington. |
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... England , on the records of the field , the church , and the state . They were generally first - class agriculturists , and eminently loyal men when their sovereigns were in trouble . In that trying time for England's monarch , a little ...
... England , on the records of the field , the church , and the state . They were generally first - class agriculturists , and eminently loyal men when their sovereigns were in trouble . In that trying time for England's monarch , a little ...
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... England . They left their beautiful residence of Cave Castle , north of the IIumber , in Yorkshire , and sought more freedom of life in the virgin soil of the New World . And in later years the repre- sentatives of the Washingtons and ...
... England . They left their beautiful residence of Cave Castle , north of the IIumber , in Yorkshire , and sought more freedom of life in the virgin soil of the New World . And in later years the repre- sentatives of the Washingtons and ...
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... England as to the second King Charles in the days of Berkeley , almost a hundred years before ; or when royal governors held vice - regal courts at Williamsburg , the capital of the Commonwealth twenty years after repub- lican Bacon's ...
... England as to the second King Charles in the days of Berkeley , almost a hundred years before ; or when royal governors held vice - regal courts at Williamsburg , the capital of the Commonwealth twenty years after repub- lican Bacon's ...
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... England with his family about the year 1650 , and settled at the mouth of Corotoman River , in Lancaster county , Vir- ginia , and died in 1669 , leaving two sons , William and Joseph , and one daughter , Hannah , who married Daniel Fox ...
... England with his family about the year 1650 , and settled at the mouth of Corotoman River , in Lancaster county , Vir- ginia , and died in 1669 , leaving two sons , William and Joseph , and one daughter , Hannah , who married Daniel Fox ...
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... England's navy in the West Indies , had lately chastised the Spaniards for their depredations upon British commerce , by capturing Porto Bello , on the isthmus of Darien . The Spaniards prepared to strike an avenging blow , and the ...
... England's navy in the West Indies , had lately chastised the Spaniards for their depredations upon British commerce , by capturing Porto Bello , on the isthmus of Darien . The Spaniards prepared to strike an avenging blow , and the ...
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Mount Vernon and Its Associations, Historical, Biographical, and Pictorial Benson John Lossing Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2016 |
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