Life of George Washington, Band 3Putnam, 1857 |
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
5th Series adjutant-general affairs aide-de-camp alarm American Archives arms army arrived artillery attack battalions batteries Battle of Long boats Boston brave brigade British Brooklyn Canada cannon cannonade Captain Colonel Colonel Reed command Connecticut crossed defense Delaware detachment embarked encamped enemy enemy's eral ferry fire Flatbush fleet force Fort Constitution Fort Lee Fort Montgomery Fort Washington fortified garrison Gates George Clinton guard guns Harlem River Heath heights Hessians Highlands hills horse Hudson hundred ington James Clinton Jerseys King's Bridge land Lee's letter lines Long Island Lord Stirling meantime ment Mifflin miles military militia morning night o'clock officers orders pass Peekskill Point President of Congress prisoners Putnam quarters Rahl redoubts regiment reinforced riflemen Schuyler sent ships shore Sir Henry Clinton soldiers soon spirit Staten Island stationed Sullivan Sullivan's Island thousand tion tories town Trenton troops Tryon Wash Washington writes York
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 173 - Highlanders, Hessians, and other troops to be landed on Staten Island. At the beginning of August, the squadron with Sir Henry Clinton, recently repulsed at Charleston, anchored in the bay.
Seite 120 - The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forevermore.
Seite 41 - By all accounts there never existed a more miserable set of beings than these wretched creatures now are. Taught to believe that the power of Great Britain was superior to all opposition, and...
Seite 359 - It may be thought that I am going a good deal out of the line of my duty to adopt these measures or to advise thus freely. A character to lose, an estate to forfeit, the inestimable blessings of liberty at stake and a life devoted must be my excuse.
Seite 115 - I shall be present or not, for to confess my weakness, Ned, my ambition is prevalent, so that I contemn the grovelling condition of a clerk or the like, to which my fortune condemns me, and would willingly risk my life, though not my character, to exalt my station. I am confident, Ned, that my youth excludes me from any hopes of immediate preferment, nor do I desire it; but I mean to prepare the way for futurity.
Seite 355 - Voltaire has remarked that King William never appeared to full advantage but in difficulties and in action; the same remark may be made on General Washington, for the character fits him. There is a natural firmness in some minds which cannot be unlocked by trifles, but which, when unlocked, discovers a cabinet of fortitude...
Seite 229 - Men just dragged from the tender scenes of domestic life, unaccustomed to the din of arms, totally unacquainted with every kind of military skill (which...
Seite 349 - The ingenious manoeuvre of Fort Washington has unhinged the goodly fabric we had been building. There never was so damned a stroke. Entre nous, a certain great man is most damnably deficient. He has thrown me into a situation where I have my choice of difficulties : if I stay in this province, I risk myself and army ; and if I do not stay, the province is lost forever.
Seite 177 - That the troops may have an opportunity of attending public worship, as well as to take some rest after the great fatigue they have gone through, the general, in future, excuses them from fatigue duty on Sundays, except at the ship-yards, or on special occasions, until further orders.
Seite 355 - Jerseys had never been ravaged. Once more we are again collected and collecting, our new army at both ends of the continent is recruiting fast, and we shall be able to open the next campaign with sixty thousand men, well armed and clothed.