George Washington, Volume 1Goupil, 1900 |
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Pagina viii
... soldier or as a President that I have sought to draw him ; nor do I wish to write a history of the times to show Washington's relations to his contemporaries . I have endeavored to make the man write his own . biography , using his own ...
... soldier or as a President that I have sought to draw him ; nor do I wish to write a history of the times to show Washington's relations to his contemporaries . I have endeavored to make the man write his own . biography , using his own ...
Pagina 55
... soldier , was sent to complete the negotiation . It is certain that Van Braam blundered seriously in his interpretation of the articles , but proba- bly through ignorance . The English force were to be permitted to retire without insult ...
... soldier , was sent to complete the negotiation . It is certain that Van Braam blundered seriously in his interpretation of the articles , but proba- bly through ignorance . The English force were to be permitted to retire without insult ...
Pagina 62
... soldier . He offered a suggestion by which Washing- ton was to hold the commission of a colonel , without its rank , or emolument , or command , a suggestion that was immediately repelled . You must entertain a very contemptible opinion ...
... soldier . He offered a suggestion by which Washing- ton was to hold the commission of a colonel , without its rank , or emolument , or command , a suggestion that was immediately repelled . You must entertain a very contemptible opinion ...
Pagina 63
... soldiers was coming gave an impetus to the colonial measures , for it promised many advantages . The de- fense of the frontiers from Indian and French incursions could be entrusted to the provincial forces of militia , imperfectly ...
... soldiers was coming gave an impetus to the colonial measures , for it promised many advantages . The de- fense of the frontiers from Indian and French incursions could be entrusted to the provincial forces of militia , imperfectly ...
Pagina 72
... soldiers scarce thirty remaining alive out of the three companies . Gathering the remnants of the army a retreat towards Fort Cumberland was begun . Near the Great Meadows Braddock breathed his last and was interred with the honors of ...
... soldiers scarce thirty remaining alive out of the three companies . Gathering the remnants of the army a retreat towards Fort Cumberland was begun . Near the Great Meadows Braddock breathed his last and was interred with the honors of ...
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Pagina 44 - There was no way for getting over but on a raft which we set about with but one poor hatchet and finished just after sunsetting. This was a whole day's work, we next got it launched then went on board of it and set off.
Pagina 76 - Honored Madam: If it is in my power to avoid going to the Ohio again, I shall; but if the command is pressed upon me by the general voice of the country, and offered upon such terms as cannot be objected against, it would reflect dishonor on me to refuse it...
Pagina 164 - You may believe me, my dear Patsy, when I assure you, in the most solemn manner, that, so far from seeking this appointment, I have used every endeavor in my power to avoid it...
Pagina 286 - We find gentlemen, without knowing whether the army was really going into winter quarters or not (for I am sure no resolution of mine could warrant the remonstrance), reprobating the measure as much as if they thought the soldiers were made of stocks or stones, and equally insensible of frost and snow...
Pagina 244 - You can form no idea of the perplexity of my situation. No man, I believe, ever had a greater choice of difficulties, and less means to extricate himself from them. However, under a full persuasion .of the justice of our cause, I cannot entertain an idea, that it will finally sink, though it may remain for some time under a cloud.
Pagina 51 - I fortunately escaped without any wound; for the right wing, where I stood, was exposed to, and received, all the enemy's fire ; and it was the part where the man was killed and the rest wounded. I heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound" This rodomontade, as Horace Walpole terms it reached the ears of George II.
Pagina 184 - Such a dearth of public spirit and such want of virtue, such stock-jobbing and fertility in all the low arts to obtain advantages of one kind or another in this great change of military arrangement I never saw before, and pray God's mercy that I may never be witness to again.
Pagina 162 - I am truly sensible of the high honor done me, in this appointment, yet I feel great distress, from a consciousness that my abilities and military experience may not be equal to the extensive and important trust.
Pagina 243 - The ingenious manoeuvre of Fort Washington has unhinged the goodly fabric we had been building. There never was so damned a stroke. Entre nous, a certain great man is most damnably deficient. He has thrown me into a situation where I have my choice of difficulties : if I stay in this province, I risk myself and army ; and if I do not stay, the province is lost forever.
Pagina 140 - I can never look upon that proclamation in any other light (but this I say between ourselves), than as a temporary expedient to quiet the minds of the Indians.