Memoirs of the War in the Southern Department of the United States, Tom 1Bradford and Inskeep, 1812 |
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... arms in the British school , and much respected by congress , was appoint- ed to the chief command in the northern department . His reputation produced confidence ; our vanquished army was reanimated ; the east poured forth her hardy ...
... arms in the British school , and much respected by congress , was appoint- ed to the chief command in the northern department . His reputation produced confidence ; our vanquished army was reanimated ; the east poured forth her hardy ...
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... arm the fate of the day depended . The slaughter was great , especially of the British ; the glory was equal : to the enemy , for having sustained him- self through two long and sternly contested battles against superior numbers ; to ...
... arm the fate of the day depended . The slaughter was great , especially of the British ; the glory was equal : to the enemy , for having sustained him- self through two long and sternly contested battles against superior numbers ; to ...
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... arms . Some of our musketry were with- out bayonets ; and not a single brigade had muskets of the same caliber ; by which means , a corps expending its ammunition , could not use that of an adjoining corps . The latter deficiency is ...
... arms . Some of our musketry were with- out bayonets ; and not a single brigade had muskets of the same caliber ; by which means , a corps expending its ammunition , could not use that of an adjoining corps . The latter deficiency is ...
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... arms . His enemy was a corps of countrymen , who , for the first time , were unsheathing their swords ; without artillery ; defectively armed with fowling pieces , and muskets without bayonets ; destitute of that cheering comfort , with ...
... arms . His enemy was a corps of countrymen , who , for the first time , were unsheathing their swords ; without artillery ; defectively armed with fowling pieces , and muskets without bayonets ; destitute of that cheering comfort , with ...
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... prize of glory in the arduous contest which ushered in our nation's birth— Upon Prescot and his companions in arms will the eye of history beam . CHAPTER IX . SIR Henry Clinton * had no sooner Southern Department of the United States . 55.
... prize of glory in the arduous contest which ushered in our nation's birth— Upon Prescot and his companions in arms will the eye of history beam . CHAPTER IX . SIR Henry Clinton * had no sooner Southern Department of the United States . 55.
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Strona 240 - Sir, a letter which I received last night contained the following paragraph : ' In a letter from General Conway to General Gates, he says, Heaven has determined to save your country ; or a weak general and bad counsellors would have ruined it.
Strona 241 - I considered the information as coming from yourself, and given with a view to forewarn, and consequently to forearm me, against a secret enemy, or in other words, a dangerous incendiary ; in which character sooner or later this country will know General Conway. But in this, as in other matters of late, I have found myself mistaken.
Strona 242 - I find myself just able to hold the pen during a few minutes, and take this opportunity of expressing my sincere grief for having done, written, or said any thing disagreeable to your Excellency. My career will soon be over, therefore justice and truth prompt me to declare my last sentiments. You are in my eyes the great and good man. May you long enjoy the love, veneration, and esteem of these States, whose liberties you have asserted by your virtues.
Strona 165 - A rigid disciplinarian, he reduced to practice the justice of his heart; and during the difficult course of warfare, through which he passed, calumny itself never charged him with violating' the rights of person, property, or humanity.
Strona 236 - Those fathers of the commonwealth," writes Colonel H. Lee, in his memoirs, " appointed a committee of their body to wait on the vanquished general, and assure him of their high regard and esteem, that their remembrance of his former glorious services was never to be obliterated by any reverse of fortune ; but, ever mindful of his great merit, they would omit no opportunity of testifying to the world the gratitude which Virginia, as a member of the American Union, owed to him in his military character.
Strona 142 - Nevertheless, so well established was the spotless reputation of the vanquished general that he continued to enjoy the undiminished respect and confidence of Congress, of the army, and of the commander in chief.
Strona 186 - Convinced as I am, that a government is the murderer of its , citizens, which sends them to the field uninformed and untaught, where they are to meet men of the same age and strength, mechanized by education and discipline for battle...
Strona 2 - Nam saepe ego audivi Q. Maxumum, P. Scipionem, praeterea civitatis nostrae praeclaros viros solitos ita dicere, cum maiorum imagines intuerentur, vehementissume sibi animum ad virtutem accendi. Scilicet non ceram illam neque figuram tantam vim in sese habere, sed memoria rerum gestarum eam flammam egregiis viris in pectore crescere neque prius sedari quam virtus eorum famam atque gloriam adaequaverit.