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Title: The new Larned History for ready reference, reading and research; the actual words of the world's best historians biographers and specialists; a complete system of history for all uses, extending to all countries and subjects and representing the better and newer literature of history
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Larned, Josephus Nelson, 1836-1913 Smith, Donald Eugene, 1878-
Subjects: History
Publisher: Springfield, Mass. C.A. Nichols publishing company
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e SevenYears War. Most of the men had rushed to thefield on the first alarm of hostilities, without anyenlistment; and when they were enlisted, it wasonly til! the end of the year. There was no militarychest; scarce anything that could be called acommissariat. The artillery consisted of a fewold field-pieces of various sizes, served with avery few exceptions by persons wholly untrainedin gunnery. There was no siege train, and an al-most total want of every description of ordnancestores. Barrels of sand, represented as powder,were from time to time brought into the camp,to prevent the American army itself from beingaware of its deficiency in that respect. In theautumn of 1775, an alarm of small-pox wasbrought from Boston, and the troops were sub-jected to inoculation. There was no efficient power,either in the Provincial Assembly or the Congressat Philadelphia, by which these wants could besupplied and these evils remedied. Such were thecircumstances under which General Washington 8574
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GEORGE WASHINGTON (From the painting by Gilbert Stuart, in the Corcoran Gallery, Washington) UNITED STATES, ms-m^ Washingtonin Command UNITED STATES, 1775-1776 took the field, at the head of a force greatly su-perior in numbers to the royal army, but in allother respects a very unequal match. Meantimethe British were undisputed masters of the ap-proaches to Boston by water. Washingtons let-ters disclose extreme impatience under the inactionto which he was condemned; but the gravest diffi-culties attended the expulsion of the rco^al forcesfrom Boston. It could only be effected by thebombardment and assault of that place; an at-tempt which must in any event have been destruc-tive to the large noncombatant population, thathad been unable to remove inio the country, andwhich would have been of doubtful success, for thewant of a siege train, and with troops whollyunused to such an undertaking. Having in thecourse of the year received some captured ordnancefrom Canada (from Fort Ticonderoga

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