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  • He had fallen in with a brigade of Pennsylvania militia commanded by General Potter which he soon dispersed, and, pursuing the fugitives, had gained the heights opposite Matron's ford, over which the Americans had thrown a bridge for the purpose of crossing the river, and had posted troops to command the defile called the Gulph just as the front division of the American army reached the bank of the river.

    Life and Times of Washington Schroeder, J. F. 1903

  • He had fallen in with a brigade of Pennsylvania militia commanded by General Potter which he soon dispersed, and, pursuing the fugitives, had gained the heights opposite Matron's ford, over which the Americans had thrown a bridge for the purpose of crossing the river, and had posted troops to command the defile called the Gulph just as the front division of the American army reached the bank of the river.

    Life and Times of Washington, Volume 2 Revised, Enlarged, and Enriched John Frederick Schroeder 1852

  • He had fallen in with a brigade of Pennsylvania militia commanded by General Potter, which he soon dispersed; and, pursuing the fugitives, had gained the heights opposite Matron's ford, over which the Americans had thrown a bridge for the purpose of crossing the river, and had posted troops to command the defile called the Gulph, just as the front division of the

    The Life of George Washington, Vol. 2 (of 5) Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States John Marshall 1795

  • Is this not the same additive that caused “Gulph War Syndrome”?

    Send us your H1N1 swine flu questions! 2009

  • "When one stands near the Fall," wrote Father Louis Hennepin (who did so in 1678), "and looks down into this most dreadful Gulph, one is seized with Horror."

    An Artifice For America 2008

  • Ports, and Passages, in Hopes to find or hear of her alive or dead; but all in vain, insomuch, that I became absorp'd in the Gulph of Grief and

    Exilius 2008

  • Emigration to Texas: For the Gulph of Mexico; a chartered ship to sail on, or before, the 30th inst ...: for full particulars ... apply at the Texian ...

    Immigration Policy Crosses Line of Common Decency 2007

  • He replied that his regiment lay at Vaceau, a French town on the frontiers of Spain; that he had just crossed a part of the Gulph of

    The Romance of the Forest 2004

  • Nothing was discernible, save a flight of rough unshapen steps which sank into the yawning Gulph and were soon lost in darkness.

    The Monk 2004

  • He was obliged to proceed with great caution, lest He should miss the steps and fall into the Gulph below him.

    The Monk 2004

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