 Heaven I could add, that it had been a more fortunate one for us." General Howe reported his loss to be seventy-one killed, four hundred and fifty wounded, and fourteen missing. The American loss, as stated by Dr. Gordon on the authority of the Board...  Life of Washington - Strona 259autor: George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1855Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | Richard Henry Lee - 1829 - Liczba stron: 840
...armies. He said nothing struck him so much as Gen. Washington's attacking and giving battle to Gen. Howe's army. That to bring an army raised within a year to this, promised every thing. He asked Dr. F. what he thought of the war. He answered he thought we should succeed, and the English... | |
 | 1830 - Liczba stron: 592
...and compliments on the state of affairs in America, Count de Vergennes remarked, ' that nothing had struck him so much as General Washington's attacking...raised within a year to this, promised every thing.' The allusion here is to the battle of Gennantown, which, although a discomfiture, contributed more... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1834 - Liczba stron: 594
...America, and conversing for some time on the situation of the two armies, said, " that nothing had struck him so much as General Washington's attacking...raised within a year, to this, promised every thing." — Life of Arthur Lee, Vol. I. p. 360. It has been usually supposed, that Burgoyne's defeat was the... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1834 - Liczba stron: 600
...America, and conversing for some time on the situation of the two armies, said, " that nothing had struck him so much as General Washington's attacking...raised within a year, to this, promised every thing." — Life of Arthur Lee, Vol. I. p. 360. It has been usually supposed, that Burgoyne's defeat was the... | |
 | 1858 - Liczba stron: 974
...prevented him from achieving a victory. Well might the Count de Vergennes say in reference to it, " That nothing struck him so much as General Washington's...bring an army, raised within a year to this, promised everything." But after all, the most brilliant period of bis military life, was that of his campaign... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1835 - Liczba stron: 582
...America, and conversing for some time on the situation of the two armies, said, ' that nothing had struck him so much as General Washington's attacking...raised within a year, to this, promised every thing.' — Life of Arthur Lee, Vol. I. p. 360. It has been usually supposed, that Burgoyne's defeat was the... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1835 - Liczba stron: 568
...America, and conversing for some time on the situation of the (wo armies, said, ' that nothing had struck him so much as General Washington's attacking...army, raised within a year, to this, promised every thing.'—Life of Arthur Lee, Vol. I. p. 360. It has been usually supposed, that Burgoyne's defeat... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1837 - Liczba stron: 650
...whole would arrive nearly at the same time. The divisions of Sullivan and Wayne, flanked by Conway's brigade, were to enter the town by the road leading...it was ; but the above fact, recorded by one of the Commissioners at the time, shows that the operations of Washington's army had their due weight in the... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1837 - Liczba stron: 658
...Schuylkill, and gain their left and rear. The divisions of Greene and Stephen, flanked by Mc Bougali's brigade, were to make a circuit on the American left,...it was ; but the above fact, recorded by one of the Commissioners at the time, shows that the operations of Washington's army had their due weight in the... | |
 | George Washington - 1837 - Liczba stron: 644
...American left, and attack the British right wing, while the Maryland and Jersey militia, under Small wood and Forman, were to move down by a road still farther...it was; but the above fact, recorded by one of the Commissioners at the time, shows that the operations of Washington's army had their due weight in the... | |
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