...in the Battle of the Monongahela. "I luckily escapd with[ou]ta wound," he assured his mother, "tho' I had four Bullets through my Coat, and two Horses shot under me." Braddock's regulars, surprised and confused by their foes who assailed them from the protection of...

...in the Battle of the Monongahela. "I luckily escapd with[ou]ta wound," he assured his mother, "tho' I had four Bullets through my Coat, and two Horses shot under me." Braddock's regulars, surprised and confused by their foes who assailed them from the protection of...

...distracted forces. A few days later he wrote to his mother, "I luckily escaped without a wound, though I had four bullets through my coat and two horses shot under me." He now returned in broken health to Mount Vernon on July 26th but amid the approbation of his friends...

...confusion. After the battle, on July 1 8, 1 755, Washington wrote to his brother, John A. Washington: But by the all-powerful dispensations of Providence. I...shot under me. yet escaped unhurt, although death was leveling my companions on every side of me! '•' Fifteen years later, Washington and Dr. Craik, a...

...the survivors home. He wrote to his nephew John Augustine Washington on July 18, 1755, that "I had 4 Bullets through my Coat, and two Horses shot under me yet escaped unhurt. We have been most scandalously beaten by a trifling body of men."1 His daring and courage were observed...

...Meadows, May 31, 1754 By the miraculous care of Providence that protected me beyond all human expectation, I had four bullets through my coat and two horses shot under, and yet escaped unhurt. To John Augustine Washington, Fort Cumberland, July 18, 1755 Beliefs Men's...

...same dare, ibid., 134-37. 6n, GW wrote a brief account of the battle to his mother, noting that he "had four Bullets through my Coat, and two Horses shot under me" ;GW to Mary Ball Washington, 1 8 July 1733, ibid., 336-37l. 61. GW's commission and two accompanying...

...in the Battle of the Monongahela. "I luckily escapd with[ou]ta wound," he assured his mother, "tho' I had four Bullets through my Coat, and two Horses shot under me." Braddock's regulars, surprised and confused by their foes who assailed them from the protection of...

...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 From Center for Gifted Education, Building a New System: Colonial America 1607-1763....

...the first, and of assuring you, that I have not as yet composed the latter. But by the Ail-Powerful Dispensations of Providence, I have been protected...shot under me, yet escaped unhurt, although death was leveling my companions on every side of me!" American Minute July I9 V for Victory! It was on this...