 That the troops may have an opportunity of attending public worship, as well as to take some rest after the great fatigue they have gone through, the general, in future, excuses them from fatigue duty on Sundays, except at the shipyards or on special...  Life of George Washington - Seite 158von Washington Irving - 1901Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Robert Walsh - 1835 - 568 Seiten
...style in this species of composition. They were issued in '76. " From the Orderly Book, August 3d.—' That the troops may have an opportunity of attending...General in future excuses them from fatigue duty on Sondays, except at the ship-yards, or on special occasions, until further orders. The General is sorry... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1835 - 582 Seiten
...severely punished and dismissed from the service with disgrace.* " From the Orderly Book, August 3d. — ' That the troops may have an opportunity of attending...General in future excuses them from fatigue duty on Sondays, except at the ship-yards, or on special occasions, until further orders. The General is sorry... | |
 | Edward Charles M'Guire - 1836 - 432 Seiten
...may incline the Lord and Giver of victory to prosper our arms." From the Orderly Book, August 3d.— "That the troops may have an opportunity of attending...General, in future, excuses them from fatigue duty on Sunday, except at the shipyards, or on special occasions, till further orders." In a Circular from... | |
 | Francis Lister Hawks, Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - 1837 - 520 Seiten
...may incline the Lord and Giver of victory to prosper our arms.' " From the Orderly Book, Aug. 3d.—' That the troops may have an opportunity of attending...General, in future, excuses them from fatigue duty on Sunday, except at the shipyards, or on special occasions, till further orders.' " In a Circular from... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1845 - 900 Seiten
...we are indebted for every late happy success over the common enemy in Canada." "August 3, 1776. — That the troops may have an opportunity of attending...fatigue duty on Sundays, except at the ship-yards, and on special occasions, until further orders. The general is sorry to be informed that the foolish... | |
 | 1863 - 896 Seiten
...defending the dearest rights and liberties of his country." In his orders of August 3rd 1776, he says : " That the troops may have an opportunity of attending...General in future excuses them from fatigue duty on Sunday, except at the ship-yards, and on special occasions." Again, in his orders to the Brigadier... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1855 - 608 Seiten
...soldier, defending the dearest rights and liberties of his country." — Orderly Book, July 9th, 1776. " That the troops may have an opportunity of attending...occasions, until further orders. The General is sorry to be in-1 formed, that the foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing, a vice heretofore... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1870 - 530 Seiten
...we are indebted for every late happy success over the common enemy in Canada.' ' August 3, 1776. — That the troops may have an opportunity of attending...gone through, the general in future excuses them from fatigue-duty on Sundays, except at the ship-yards, and on special occasions, until further orders.... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1870 - 272 Seiten
...we are indebted for every late happy success over the common enemy in Canada.' ' August 3, 1776. — That the troops may have an opportunity of attending...gone through, the general in future excuses them from fatigue-duty on Sundays, except at the ship-yards, and on special occasions, until further orders.... | |
 | Wilbur Fisk Crafts - 1885 - 660 Seiten
...August, 1776, at the beginning of the great war of the Revolution, in a general army order, said : " That the troops may have an opportunity of attending...shipyards, or on special occasions, until further orders. . . . We can have little hope of the blessing of Heaven on our arms, if we insult it by our impiety... | |
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