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This, I will venture to assert, will answer every end; and nothing less will accomplish any effectual purpose, without scenes of ruin and destruction, which I cannot think on without the utmost grief and horror.†

p. 13.7

For importantly it was also well understood, and deeply felt, that the historic chamber was again the setting for history, that issues of the utmost consequence, truly the fate of nations, were at stake.†

p. 14.2

The power of the empire would be "exerted to the utmost," he wrote.†

p. 19.2 *

The Philadelphia artist Charles Willson Peale, who had been a guest at Mount Vernon in 1772 while painting Washington's portrait, described how he and several other young men were on the lawn throwing an iron bar for sport, when Washington appeared and, without bothering to remove his coat, took a turn, throwing it "far, very far beyond our utmost limit."†

p. 48.7

He knew he might not succeed, and he gave Congress fair warning: But lest some unlucky event should happen unfavorable to my reputation, I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room that I this day declare with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I [am] honored with.†

p. 49.7

Gentlemen in other colonies have large plantations of slaves, and ...are accustomed, habituated to higher notions of themselves and the distinction between them and the common people than we are....I dread the consequences of this dissimilitude of character, and without the utmost caution on both sides, and the most considerate forbearance with one another and prudent condescension on both sides, they will certainly be fatal.†

p. 57.9

"Every officer that stands an idle spectator, and sees such a wanton waste of powder, and doesn't do his utmost to suppress the evil, may expect to be reported," declared Nathanael Greene.†

p. 60.6

After that progress came only with "the utmost difficulty."†

p. 83.1

Indeed, from Knox's hurried, all-but-illegible diary entries, that first hour on the lake appears to have been the only hour of the entire trek that did not bring "the utmost difficulty."†

p. 83.1

THE SHOCK OF DISCOVERY threw the British into "utmost consternation."†

p. 94.1

Almost from the moment Howe made his announcement the morning of March 6, ordering the army and fleet to prepare to leave, Boston became a scene of utmost frenzy.†

p. 98.2

"This day," he wrote on March 6, "the utmost distress and anxiety among the refugees and associators [Loyalists]....Blessed by God, our redemption draws near."†

p. 98.3

Americans watching from a dozen hillsides and promontories around the town could see, as Washington wrote, streets full of "great movements and confusion among the troops night and day ...in hurrying down their cannon, artillery, and other stores to the wharves with utmost precipitation."†

p. 99.9

An attack by Howe on Dorchester Heights had been his "utmost wish," and he could "scarce forbear lamenting the disappointment" he felt.†

p. 110.7

The decision was Washington's alone and he promised unequivocally "to exert myself to the utmost to frustrate the designs of the enemy."†

p. 118.7

When Washington was called to Philadelphia to consult with Congress, arrangements were made for fast horses to be held ready at intervals along the road, so that if necessary he could get back to New York with "utmost expedition."†

p. 132.1

Under every disadvantage my utmost exertions shall be employed to bring about the great end we have in view, and so far as I can judge from the professions and apparent disposition of my troops, I shall have their support.†

p. 151.7

That same day, at a country estate near Elizabethtown, New Jersey, General William Livingston, a former member of Congress and newly in command of the New Jersey militia, wrote in "utmost haste" to Washington that a spy he had sent to Staten Island had just returned to report that the British were about to attack, both on Long Island and up the Hudson, and that the attack could come any hour, "this night at farthest."†

p. 154.5

The long column moved with utmost silence and extremely slowly.†

p. 169.1

"But lest some unlucky event should happen unfavorable to my reputation," he had told Congress when accepting his command, "I beg it may be remembered by every gent[leme]n in the room that I this day declare with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I [am] honored with.†

p. 184.9

The militia, instead of calling forth their utmost efforts to a brave and manly opposition, in order to repair our losses, are dismayed, intractable, and impatient to return.†

p. 203.3

But his response was an immediate decision to make a fight, if only, as he later explained to Patrick Henry, "to recover that military ardor which is of the utmost moment to an army."†

p. 218.3

All circumstances considered, we are in a very awful and alarming situation—one that requires the utmost wisdom and firmness of mind.†

p. 249.1

In another letter to John Hancock, he stated flatly that "Philadelphia beyond all question is the object of the enemy's movements," that "nothing less than our utmost exertions" could stop Howe, and that his own force was too thin and weak to count on.†

p. 264.1

"The general, with the utmost sincerity and affection, thanks the officers and soldiers for their spirited and gallant behavior at Trenton yesterday," he began.†

p. 282.1

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