...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.' Horace Walpole reports that 'on hearing of this letter, the King said sensibly, "He would not say so...

...twenty-one captured. A few days later in a letter to a brother Washington is alleged to have remarked "I heard the bullets whistle and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound". Being asked in later years if he had made such a remark he replied "If I said so it was when I was...

...had inexhaustible coolness and courage. With a touch of youthful bravado, he wrote to his brother, "I heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound." Perhaps the charm palled a little in later life, and the whistle became as indifferent as the buzzing...

...any wound, for the right wing, where I stood, was exposed to and received all the enemy's fire. ... I heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound." It is said that King George II, who was a brave soldier if not a brilliant ruler, noted the gay remark...

...a copy of a letter from Washington to his brother Jack after that first engagement with the French. "I heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound," the colonel wrote. Older soldiers smiled when they read this. King George remarked "he would not say...

...Virginian, whose report of his experience at Fort Necessity had been retailed about London with delight — "I heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound" — was as striking in person as in story. In the saddle, he rode with superb grace and assurance....

...of Tom's favorite quotes was George Washington's comment during the French and Indian War: "I have heard the bullets whistle and believe me, there is something charming in the sound." Tom also had been charmed by the whistling bullets, and he now drew strength from his combat experience,...

...any wound, for the right wing, where I stood, was exposed to and received all the enemy's fire ... I heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound." Somehow the remark made the colonial papers and was widely reprinted, even in the London Magazine....

...Tellingly, after his first taste of combat he wrote a letter to a younger brother in which he said, "I heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound."2 That, too, was published in the several colonies and London: everybody knew who this audacious...

...scalps, and the newly seasoned British officer wrote boastfully to his brother back home in Virginia: "I heard the bullets whistle, and believe me, there is something charming in the sound." This incident has long been familiar to North American historians. It marked not only the opening skirmish...