 | James Thacher - 1823 - 686 Seiten
...arrived here from Pennsylvania and Maryland ; a distance of from five hundred to seven hundred miles. They are remarkably stout and hardy men ; many of...certainty at two hundred yards distance. At a review, a company of them, while on a quick advance, fired their balls into objects of seven inches diameter,... | |
 | James Thacher - 1827 - 494 Seiten
...arrived here from Pennsylvania and Maryland ; a distance of from five hundred to seven hundred miles. They are remarkably stout and hardy men ; many of...certainty at two hundred yards distance. At a review, a company of them, while on a quick advance, fired their balls into objects of seven inches diameter,... | |
 | William Thompson Read - 1870 - 596 Seiten
...fourteen hundred men, have arrived here from Pennsylvama and Maryland, a distance from 600 to 700 miles. They are remarkably stout and hardy men; many of them...feet in height. They are dressed in white frocks or rifle-shirts, and round hats. These men are remarkable for the accuracy of their aim, striking a mark... | |
 | John Thomas Scharf - 1879 - 688 Seiten
...Washington. Mr. Thatcher in his military journal of August, 1775, in noticing their arrival, says : " They are remarkably stout and hardy men ; many of...certainty at two hundred yards distance. At a review, a company of them, while on a quick advance, fired their balls into objects of seven inches diameter,... | |
 | John Thomas Scharf - 1879 - 678 Seiten
...Washington. Mr. Thatcher in his military journal of August, 1775, in noticing their arrival, says: "They are remarkably stout and hardy men ; many of...feet in height. They are dressed in white frocks, or riHe shirts, and round hats. These men are remarkable for the accuracy of their aim; striking a mark... | |
 | Samuel Hazard, John Blair Linn, William Henry Egle, George Edward Reed, Thomas Lynch Montgomery, Gertrude MacKinney, Charles Francis Hoban - 1880 - 884 Seiten
...Thacher in bis Military Journal of the Revolution, under date of August, 1775, describes this battalion : "They are remarkably stout and hardy men ; many of...certainty at two hundred yards distance. At a review, a company of them, while on a quick advance, fired their balls into objects of seven inches diameter,... | |
 | Samuel Hazard, John Blair Linn, William Henry Egle, George Edward Reed, Thomas Lynch Montgomery, Gertrude MacKinney, Charles Francis Hoban - 1880 - 856 Seiten
...1775, describes this battalion : "They are remarkably stout and hardy men ; many of them ex. ceeding six feet in height. They are dressed in white frocks...certainty at two hundred yards distance. At a review, a company of them, while on a qmck advance, fired their balls into objects of seven inches diameter,... | |
 | 1883 - 576 Seiten
...Thacher's Military Journal of the Revolution, under date of August, 1775, these troops are spoken of as " remarkably stout and hardy men, many of them exceeding six feet in height," and as " remarkable for the accuracy of their aim. At a review, a company of them, while on a quick... | |
 | 1887 - 636 Seiten
...arrived here from Pennsylvania and Maryland, a distance of from five hundred to seven hundred miles. They are remarkably stout and hardy men, many of them exceeding six feet in heig'it. They are dressed in rifle shirts and round hats. These men are remarkable for the accuracy... | |
 | Frederick Charles Johnson - 1887 - 278 Seiten
...the regiment to which Pence belonged were thus described at the time in Thacher's Militarg Journal: striking a mark with great certainty at two hundred yards' distance. At a review of a company of them, while on a quick advance they fired their balls into objects of seven inch diameter,... | |
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They are remarkably stout and hardy men ; many of them exceeding six feet in height. They are dressed in white frocks, or rifle shirts, and round hats. These men are remarkable for the accuracy of their aim ; striking a mark with great certainty at two... 
