 | George Washington - Presidents - 1800 - 240 pages
...insidious address . - 199 POLITICAL LEGACIES. IN CONGRESS, 7 Thursday, June 15, 1775. $ JVESOLVED, That a GENERAL be appointed to command all the continental...to be raised, for the defence of American liberty. THAT five hundred dollars per month be allowed for the pay and expences of the general. THE Congress... | |
 | George Washington - Presidents - 1800 - 232 pages
...month be allowed for the pay and expences of the general. f. —. . . .,' .• 1 .. . .•*• . ' . THE Congress then proceeded to the choice of a General, by ballot, and GEORGE WASHING.rojv, FS%. was unanimously elected. Friday, June 16,1775. THE President informed col. WASHINGTON... | |
 | United States. Continental Congress - Law - 1823 - 644 pages
...resolutions, which he was ordered to report. The report of the committee being read and considered, Resolved, That a general be appointed to command all...to be raised, for the defence of American liberty. That five hundred dollars, per month, be allowed for the pay and expenses of the general. The Congress... | |
 | Thomas Jones Rogers - United States - 1823 - 382 pages
...adopted. In June, congress resolved to raise several companies of riflemen, &c. and that a general should be appointed to command all the continental forces...to be raised, for the defence of American liberty; and GEORGE WASHINGTON, was unanimously elected. Congress, at the same time, resolved, that they would... | |
 | Presidents - 1825 - 460 pages
...the government of the army, were adopted. On the 15th of June, it was resolved that a general should be appointed, to command all the continental forces raised, or to be raised, in defence of American liberty, and after having proceeded to a choice by ballot, George Washington... | |
 | Boston (Mass.) - 1826 - 426 pages
...characterises and appertains to greatness, he was so overcome as to retire immediately from the body. "Congress then proceeded to the choice of a General,...and George Washington, esq. was unanimously elected. When Mr. Carroll first took his seat in Congress, July IS, 1776, the President, (Hancock) after his... | |
 | John Sanderson, Robert Waln - United States - 1828 - 438 pages
...summer, in the organization of a continental army, and the appointment of Washington to the command of all the continental forces, " raised or to be raised, for the defence of American liberty ;" and notwithstanding too the excitement produced by the recent tragedy at Lexington, the battle of... | |
 | Montgomery Robert Bartlett - Education - 1828 - 426 pages
...twelve months since, in this place, moved you that George Washington be appointed commander of the forces raised, or to be raised for the defence of American liberty, may my right hand forget her cunning, and my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I hesitate or... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - American literature - 1830 - 334 pages
...having, twelve months ago, in this place, moved you, that George Washington be appointed commander of the forces, raised, or to be raised, for the defence of American liberty, may my right hand forget her cunning, and my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I hesitate or... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - Elocution - 1831 - 356 pages
...having, twelve months ago, in this place, moved you, that George Washington be appointed commander of the forces, raised, or to be raised, for the defence of American liberty, may my right hand forget her cunning, and my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I hesitate or... | |
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Resolved, That a general be appointed to command all the Continental forces raised, or to be raised, for the defence of American liberty. 
