Life of George Washington, Nide 3G.P. Putnam & Company, 1857 |
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advance affairs aide-de-camp Albany American appointed arms army Arnold arrived artillery attack baggage batteries battle brave brigade British Burgoyne camp campaign cannon Clair Colonel command commander-in-chief conduct Congress Conway Creek Delaware detachment division encamped endeavored enemy enemy's eral expedition fire flank fleet force Fort Edward Fort Independence Fort Mercer Fort Mifflin Fort Montgomery French garrison Gates Gates's give Governor Greene head-quarters Hessian Highlands Hill honor horse Hudson hundred Indians ington Island Jerseys Lafayette Lake land letter Lord Stirling main body major-general ment Mifflin miles military militia Mohawk River morning movement night Northern department officers parties Peekskill Philadelphia prisoners Putnam quarters rank rear received reconnoitring regiment reinforcements reply retreat Riedesel river road Schuyler sent ships side Sir Henry Clinton Skenesborough soldiers soon spirit Sullivan thousand Ticonderoga tion troops Tryon County Washington Wayne whole Wilkinson woods wounded writes York
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Sivu 338 - I can assure those gentlemen, that it is a much easier and less distressing thing to draw remonstrances in a comfortable room by a good fireside, than to occupy a cold, bleak hill, and sleep under frost and snow, without clothes or blankets. However, although they seem to have little feeling for the naked and distressed soldiers, I feel superabundantly for them, and, from my soul, I pity those miseries, which it is neither in my power to relieve or prevent.
Sivu 413 - I am not worth purchasing; but such as I am, the King of Great Britain is not rich enough to do it.
Sivu 447 - I desire most earnestly that I may not be buried in any church or churchyard, or within a mile of any Presbyterian or Anabaptist meetinghouse, for since I have resided in this country I have kept so much bad company when living, that I do not choose to continue it when dead.
Sivu 348 - But is our case desperate? By no means. We have wisdom, virtue, and strength enough to save us, if they could be called into action. The Northern army has shown us what Americans are capable of doing with a general at their head. The spirit of the Southern army is no way inferior to the spirit of the Northern. A Gates, a Lee, or a Conway, would, in a few weeks, render them an irresistible body of men.
Sivu 349 - My enemies take an ungenerous advantage of me. They know the delicacy of my situation, and that motives of policy deprive me of the defence I might otherwise make against their insidious attacks. They know I cannot combat their insinuations, however injurious, without disclosing secrets, which it is of the utmost moment to conceal.
Sivu 337 - ... frost and snow ; and moreover, as if they conceived it easily practicable for an inferior army, under the disadvantages I have described ours to be, which...
Sivu 491 - After reiterating their grievances, " we are sorry," added they, " that you should imagine we meant to disobey orders. It was and is still our determination to march with our regiment, and to do the duty of officers until the Legislature shall have a reasonable time to appoint others, but no longer. We beg leave to assure your Excellency, that we have the highest sense of your ability and virtues ; that executing your orders has ever given us pleasure ; that we love the service, and love our country...
Sivu 346 - Lafayette, who, having been spoken to on the subject by General Conway, applied for and saw, under injunctions of secrecy, the letter, which contained...
Sivu 263 - Though I was ready to believe (for I had experienced) that patience and fortitude in a supreme degree were to be found, as well as every other virtue, under the most tender forms, I was astonished at this proposal. After so long an agitation of...
Sivu 175 - Stark had with difficulty been prevailed upon to accept the command of the other, upon the express condition that he should not be obliged to join the main army, but should be left to his own discretion, to make war in his own partisan style, hovering about the enemy in their march through the country, and accountable to none but the authorities of New Hampshire. General Lincoln had informed Stark of the order of General Schuyler, that all the militia should repair to Stillwater, but the veteran...