 | Richard Henry Lee - 1829 - 840 pagine
...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 - 592 pagine
...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 - 600 pagine
...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 - 594 pagine
...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 - 590 pagine
...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 - 974 pagine
...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 - 582 pagine
...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 - 568 pagine
...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 - 1834 - 588 pagine
...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 - 1839 - 592 pagine
...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...army, raised within a year, to this, promised every thjng." — Life of Arthur Lee, Vol. I. p. 360. It has been usually supposed, that Burgoyne's defeat... | |
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that nothing struck him so much as General Washington's attacking and giving battle to General Howe's army ; that to bring an army, raised within a year, to this, promised every thing. 
