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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... close of the Old War for Independence . It has been described as a house of the first class then occupied by thrifty Virginia planters ; two stories in height , with a porch in front , and a chimney built inside , at each end , con ...
... close of the Old War for Independence . It has been described as a house of the first class then occupied by thrifty Virginia planters ; two stories in height , with a porch in front , and a chimney built inside , at each end , con ...
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... close of July he was laid in the grave , at the early age of thirty - four years , leaving a wife and infant child . And now George Washington , a noble youth of twenty , his fine manly face a little scarred by the smallpox , that ...
... close of July he was laid in the grave , at the early age of thirty - four years , leaving a wife and infant child . And now George Washington , a noble youth of twenty , his fine manly face a little scarred by the smallpox , that ...
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... close of the campaign of 1758 , when the French and their dusky allies were driven from the forks of the Ohio , Washington was almost continually in the public service , and spent but little time at Mount Vernon . He had been promoted ...
... close of the campaign of 1758 , when the French and their dusky allies were driven from the forks of the Ohio , Washington was almost continually in the public service , and spent but little time at Mount Vernon . He had been promoted ...
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... close of March . Carey's was then the finest house in Alexandria , sur- rounded by a noble lawn that was shaded by lofty forest trees , and its gardens extending down a gentle slope to the shore of the Potomac . Now it stands within the ...
... close of March . Carey's was then the finest house in Alexandria , sur- rounded by a noble lawn that was shaded by lofty forest trees , and its gardens extending down a gentle slope to the shore of the Potomac . Now it stands within the ...
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... close of 1781 . But it must not be supposed , that during these years of his earlier married life , Washington's time was wholly , or even chiefly , occupied in the pleasures of the chase and of social intercourse . Far from it . He was ...
... close of 1781 . But it must not be supposed , that during these years of his earlier married life , Washington's time was wholly , or even chiefly , occupied in the pleasures of the chase and of social intercourse . Far from it . He was ...
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Mount Vernon and Its Associations, Historical, Biographical, and Pictorial Benson John Lossing Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2016 |
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