Recruiting and enlistment
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In the House of Representatives, January 19, 1776 . Whereas it is of great importance, not only to the inhabitants of this colony, but also of all the United Colonies, that the lines and fortifications at Cambridge and Roxbury should at all events be maintained ..
Massachusetts General CourtDate: 1776]- E-books
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At a General Assembly of the governor and company of the state of Connecticut, holden at Hartford, on the second Thursday of May, 1780 . Whereas a requisition has been made on this state by the honorable committee of Congress and by His Excellency General Washington ... Resolved ... that 2520 able-bodied effective men, of the militia of this state ... be formed into five regiments ..
Connecticut. General Assembly.Date: 1780]- E-books
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The Rise and continuance of the substitutes, in the Continental Army . Containing, extracts I. From the journals of Congress. II. From the committee of Congress ... III. From the Pennsylvania War-Office. IV. From a declaration of the rights of Pennsylvania. V. From the plan or frame of government. VI. From the Militia Act of Pennsylvania. &c. &c. With the opinion of several eminent lawyers. [Five lines from Cato] Published for the use of all, who are yet capable of noticing, the proper discriminations, which will eternally exist between right and wrong.
Date: MDCCLXXVII. [1777]- Ephemera
The Recruiting officer's speech.
Date: [1817?]
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A crowd of figures with the heads of animals carry banners and beat drums as they form a procession; representing the City of London Volunteers. Engraving by William Henry Toms after E. Heemskerk.
Egbert van HeemskerckDate: 1700-1799Reference: 31705i
