...opportunity of contradicting the first, and of assuring you that I have not composed the latter. But, by the all-powerful dispensations of Providence, I...four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot nnder me, yet escaped unhurt, though death was leveling my companions on every side of me ! " We have...

...after the battle, ' I have been protected beyond all human No. 57. " 9 probability or expectations ; for I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me ; yet I escaped unhurt, although death was levelling my companions on every side of me.' The failure of this...

...after the battle, ' I have been protected beyond all human No. 57. 9 probability or expectations ; for I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me; yet I escaped unhurt, although death was levelling my companions on every side of me.' The failure of this...

...first, and of assuring you that I have not composed the latter. But, by the all-powerful dispensatious of Providence, I have been protected beyond all human...and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt, though death was leveling my companions on every side of me ! " We have been most scandalously beaten...

...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 aides-de-camp, were wounded early in the engagement, which rendered...

...felt and acknowledged this, and said in a letter to his brother: ' By the all-powerful dispensation of Providence, I have been protected beyond all human...through my coat, and two horses shot under me ; yet I escaped unhurt, although death was levelling my companions on every side of me/ Not only was this...

...dispensations of Providence," wrote Washington himself to his venerated parent, after Braddock's defeat, " I have been protected beyond all human probability...through my coat, and two horses shot under me ; yet I escaped unhurt, although death was levelling my companions on every side of me." Well did the eloquent...

...shot under him, and four bullets passed through his coat Writing of this to his brother, ho remarked, "By the all-powerful dispensations of Providence,...protected beyond all human probability or expectation, * * * although death was leveling my companions on every side." ' Note 1, page 168. See picture on...

...mortal wound. Colonel Washington, preserved by God for other days, sought in vain to rally his soldiers. "By the all-powerful dispensations of Providence,...protected beyond all human probability or expectation," he wrote to his brother after the action; "for I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot...

...a letter to his brother, John A. Washington, written a few days after Braddock's defeat, he says, " By the all-powerful dispensations of Providence, I...although death was levelling my companions on every side of me." In his entrance on the contest with England, he thus writes to General Gage : — " May that...