 | Ellen Hardin Walworth - 1877 - 134 Seiten
...successively, for each Brigade to fill the ground the other quitted ; the time of departure was always dayIn another letter he writes : " I cannot forbear portraying...regular line with the gun-boats, then followed the Royal George and Inflexible, towing large booms — which are to be thrown across two points of land... | |
 | New York (State). Secretary's Office, Allen C. Beach - 1879 - 522 Seiten
...ever beheld. " When in the widest purt of tin? lake it \VПЗ remarkably fine und clear, not u breeze stirring, when the whole army appeared at one view...as to form the most complete and splendid regatta ever beheld. In the front the Indians went in their birch canoes, containing twenty or thirty in each... | |
 | New York (State). Secretary's Office, Allen C. Beach - 1879 - 522 Seiten
...ever beheld. " When in the widest part of tin; lake it was remarkably fine und clear, not a breeze stirring, when the whole army appeared at one view...as to form the most complete and splendid regatta ever beheld. In the front the Indians went in their birch canoes, containing twenty or thirty in each;... | |
 | William Digby - 1887 - 462 Seiten
...spectacle which Burgoyne's army offered to the beholder as it floated on the placid bosom of the lake: "I cannot forbear portraying to your imagination one...conceive. In the front the Indians went with their "Thomas Anburey was a volunteer in Burgoyne's army, and was the author of a book entitled Travels through... | |
 | William Rogerson - 1890 - 316 Seiten
...presenting a splendid spectacle — in the words of an eye-witness (Auburey), " the whole army appeared in one view in such perfect regularity as " to form the...conceive. In the front the Indians went with their birch bark " canoes, containing twenty or thirty each." On the 30th, Digby relates, the " Advanced... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1897 - 526 Seiten
...lake, whose beauty and extent I have already described, it was remarkably fine and clear, not a breeze stirring, when the whole army appeared at one view...complete and splendid regatta you can possibly conceive. A sight so novel and pleasing could not fail of fixing the admiration and attention of every one present."... | |
 | Caroline Halstead Royce - 1904 - 658 Seiten
...describes the advance of the fleet, on a day "remarkably fine and clear, not a breeze stirring," ns "the most complete and splendid regatta you can possibly...conceive. In the front the Indians went with their birch canoes, containing twenty or thirty each ; then the advance corps (Frazer's) in regular line... | |
 | Walter Hill Crockett - 1909 - 356 Seiten
...description of the scene: "When in the widest part of the lake it was remarkably fine and clear, not a breeze stirring, when the whole army appeared at one view...as to form the most complete and splendid regatta ever beheld. In the front the Indians went in their birch canoes containing twenty or thirty in each;... | |
 | 1917 - 396 Seiten
...described* by Thomas Anburey, a British officer who accompanied the expedition: "I cannot forbear picturing to your imagination one of the most pleasing spectacles...conceive. . . . "In the front the Indians went with their birch canoes, containing twenty or thirty in each; then the advanced corps in regular line with the... | |
 | 1917 - 398 Seiten
...the widest part of the lake, whose beauty and extent I have already described, it was remarkably line and clear — not a breeze was stirring — when the...conceive. . . . "In the front the Indians went with their birch canoes, containing twenty or thirty in each; then the advanced corps in regular line with the... | |
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I have already described, it was remarkably fine and clear — not a breeze was stirring — when the whole army appeared at one view in such perfect regularity as to form the most complete and splendid regatta you can possibly conceive. 
