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... from the beginning of the Stamp Act agitation, when they were just coming of age, sympathized warmly with their oppressed countrymen on the other side of the ocean, and soon after their return home they entered the Continental army and served gallantly throughout the war. In 1780 we find Charles Cotesworth Pinckney writing to his wife in ...

— Revolutionary Heroes, And Other Historical Papers • James Parton

... the Continental Army with the commission of Lieutenant, displaying, on all occasions, unflinching bravery and a warm devotion to the ...

— Sketches of Western North Carolina, Historical and Biographical • C. L. Hunter

... seen that there was to be a serious conflict with Great Britain, the army gathered about Boston was adopted as the beginning of the forces to be assembled and was termed the Continental Army, and George Washington ...

— The Story of Manhattan • Charles Hemstreet

... under the common direction of the British government in 1759, the year of Quebec, so they acted together under the common direction of that revolutionary body, the Continental Congress, in 1775, the year of Bunker Hill. In that year a "continental army" was organized in the name of the "United Colonies." In the following year, when independence was declared, it was done by the concerted action of all the colonies; and at the same time a committee was appointed ...

— Civil Government in the United States Considered with - Some Reference to Its Origins • John Fiske

... birth, which was almost coeval with that of the Republic, for it took place the year the British troops evacuated the city of New York, and only a few months before General Washington marched in at the head of the Continental army and took possession of the metropolis. For fifty years Irving charmed and instructed the American people, and was the author who held, on the whole, the first place in their affections. As he was the first to ...

— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner

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