 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1834 - 574 pagine
...you, that I have not as yet composed the latter. But, by the all-powerful dispensations of Providence, I have been protected beyond all human probability...through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt, although death was levelling my companions on every side of me ! We have been most... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1834 - 574 pagine
...killed in the field, where died many other brave officers. I luckily escaped without a wound, though I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me. Captains Orme and Morris, two of the aids-de-camp, were wounded early in the engagement, which rendered... | |
 | George Washington - 1834 - 574 pagine
...killed in the field, where died many other brave officers. I luckily escaped without a wound, though I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me. Captains Orme and Morris, two of the aids-de-camp, were wounded early in the engagement, which rendered... | |
 | Edward Charles M'Guire - 1836 - 432 pagine
...probability, or * We shall mainly rely upon his " Writings," as recently edited and published by J. Sparks. expectation ; for I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt, although death was levelling my companions on every side of me." Was there not, indeed,... | |
 | François Guizot - 1840 - 262 pagine
...that were there, scarcely thirty men are left alive. By the all-powerful dispensations of Providence I have been protected beyond all human probability...through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt, although death was levelling my companions on every side." — Washington's Writings,... | |
 | 1841 - 566 pagine
...the fight, hut escaped unhurt. By the all-powerful dispensations of Providence," said he in a letter to his brother, «' I have been protected beyond all...through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet 1 escaped unhurt although death u as levelling my companions on every side of me." Out of eighty -six... | |
 | James Wimer - 1841 - 788 pagine
...killed in the field, where died many other brave officers. I luckily escaped without a wound, though I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me. Captains Orme and Morris, two of the aids-de-camp, were wounded early in the engagement, which rendered... | |
 | Sherman Day - 1843 - 754 pagine
...killed in the field, where died many other brave officers. I luckily escaped without a wound, though I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me. Capts. Orme and Morris, two of the aids-de-camp, were wounded early in the engagement, which rendered... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1845 - 562 pagine
...want of experience in frontier warfare." — Day's Penn. tionp of Providence,' said he, in a letter to his brother, ' I have been protected beyond all...four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot uiider me, yet I escaped unhurt, although death was levelling my companions on every side of me.'*... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1845 - 596 pagine
...want of experience in frontier warfare." — Day's Penn. tiona of Providence," said he, in a letter to his brother, ' I have been protected beyond all...expectation, for I had .four bullets through my coat, and two hones shot under me, yet I escaped unhurt, although death was levelling my companions on every side... | |
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I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt, though death was leveling my companions on every side... 
