Warsaw radio mast Masts are among the tallest man-made structures. While the structure type is commonly used on sailing ships as support for sails, they are also used for communication equipment such as radio antennas radio mast. On land they are also used for communication, usually as a...
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Philadelphia, colloquially referred to as Philly, and known as The City of Brotherly Love (from Greek: ΦιλαδÎλÏεια, /fi.la.ËðÉl.fja/, "brotherly love" from philos "loving" and adelphos "brothers") is the fifth most populous city in the United States and the largest in population and area in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
The county's adjacent to Philadelphia are Montgomery County to the north; Bucks County to the northeast; Burlington County, New Jersey to the east; Camden County, New Jersey to the southeast; Gloucester County, New Jersey to the south; and Delaware County to the west.
Philadelphia is one of the largest college towns in the United States with over 120,000 college and university students enrolled within the city and nearly 300,000 in the metropolitan area.
But the American colonists, it was felt, must be ignorant of anything deserving to be called the art of war; they had no body of trained officers; they had little experience in fighting except with Indians, and the conflicts in which they had taken part bore no resemblance to scientific warfare.
American officers naturally were not willing to step aside for some foreigner who could not even give orders in a language which the men could understand, and the most of those whom Deane sent over were unfit for such service as was required in America.
The American Congress was already beginning to weary of the host of adventurers whom Deane was sending over, and to whom, in his indiscretion, he had promised rank and pay out of all proportion to the value of their services.
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