The American Revolution, Volum 4Longmans, Green, 1912 |
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Altres edicions - Mostra-ho tot
Frases i termes més freqüents
adversary Albany already American army Anthony Wayne arms Arnold artillery battalions battle Benedict Arnold brigades British army Brunswick Burgoyne Burgoyne's Burgoyne's army camp campaign Canada cannon Captain Chapter Clinton Colonel colonies command Commander-in-Chief Congress Connecticut Continental Delaware despatched duty enemy England English Europe favour fighting fire force Fort Edward Fort Mifflin France Franklin French front garrison Gates George Clinton George Washington German Governor Grenadiers guns hand Hessians honour Horace Walpole Horatio Gates horse hostile hour Hudson River hundred Indian infantry Jonathan Trumbull July King Lafayette Lake less letter Lieutenant Lord George Germaine Loyalists Massachusetts miles military militia months muskets never officers Pennsylvania Philadelphia Philip Schuyler political province quarter rank regiments Republican retreat Revolution Riedesel Saratoga Schuyler sent Sir William Howe's soldiers soon stood thousand Ticonderoga tion Tory troops victory week whole wounded wrote York
Passatges populars
Pàgina 83 - I have but to give stretch to the Indian forces under my direction — and they amount to thousands — to overtake the hardened enemies of Great Britain and America.
Pàgina 302 - Sir, a letter which I received last night contained the following paragraph. "In a letter from General Conway to General Gates, he says, heaven has been determined to save your country, or a weak general and bad counsellors would have ruined it.
Pàgina 299 - 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.
Pàgina 293 - 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.
Pàgina 447 - I have never entered into any controversy in defence of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one's temper, and disturb one's quiet. I have no private interest in the reception of my inventions by the world, having never made, nor proposed to make, the least profit by any of them.
Pàgina 308 - SiR — I find myself just able to hold the pen during a few minutes, and take this opportunity of expressing my sincere grief for having done, written, or said anything disagreeable to your Excellency. My career will soon be over, therefore justice and truth prompt me to declare my last sentiments. You are in my eyes the great and good man. May you long enjoy the love, veneration, and esteem of these States, whose liberties you have asserted by your virtues.
Pàgina 372 - Sir, you cannot afford me greater pleasure than in giving me the opportunity of showing to America the sufficiency of her respective servants. I trust that temporary power of office, and the tinsel dignity attending it, will not be able, by all the mists they can raise, to obfuscate the bright rays of truth.
Pàgina 297 - About ten o'clock I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and to domestic felicity ; and with a mind oppressed with more anxious and painful sensations than I have words to express, set out for New York with the best disposition to render service to my country in obedience to its call, but with less hope of answering its expectations.
Pàgina 467 - Le Roy it was not my custom to seek such honors, though I was very sensible of them when conferred upon me ; that I should not have voluntarily intruded a visit ; and that in this case I had only done what I was informed the etiquette required of me. But if it would be attended with any inconvenience to Prince Bariatinski, whom I much esteemed and respected, I thought the remedy was easy ; he had only to raze my name out of his book of visits received, and I would burn their card.
Pàgina 89 - Nothing can surpass the impatience of the troops from the New England colonies to get to their firesides. Near three hundred of them arrived a few days ago, unable to do any duty; but as soon as I administered that grand specific, a discharge, they instantly acquired health, and rather than be detained a few days to cross Lake George, they undertook a march from here of two hundred miles with the greatest alacrity.