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affairs aide-de-camp Albany American arms army Arnold arrived artillery attack batteries battle brigade British Burgoyne camp campaign cannon Clair Colonel command commander-in-chief conduct Congress Conway coöperate Count D'Estaing Creek Delaware detachment division encamped endeavored enemy enemy's eral expedition fire flank fleet force Fort Edward Fort Mercer Fort Mifflin Fort Montgomery forts French garrison Gates give Governor Greene head-quarters Hessian Highlands Hill honor horse Hudson hundred Indians ington Island Jerseys Lafayette land letter Lord Stirling main body major-general marquis ment Mifflin miles military militia Mohawk River morning movement night Northern department officers parties Peekskill Philadelphia prisoners Putnam quarters rear received reconnoitering regiment reinforcements reply retreat river road Schuyler sent ships side Sir Henry Clinton Skenesborough soldiers soon spirit Stony Point Sullivan thousand Ticonderoga tion troops Tryon County Wash Washington Wayne whole Wilkinson woods wounded writes York
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Seite 474 - I am not worth purchasing; but such as I am, the King of Great Britain is not rich enough to do it.
Seite 389 - ... of giving any opinion, or of lodging complaints, as the change in that department took place contrary to my judgment, and the consequences thereof were predicted ; yet finding that the inactivity of the army, whether for want of provisions, clothes, or other essentials, is charged to my account, not only by the common vulgar, but by those in power, it is time to speak plain, in exculpation of myself. With truth then I can declare, that no man, in my opinion, ever had his measures more impeded...
Seite 588 - I have asked Mrs. Cochran and Mrs. Livingston to dine with me to-morrow ; but am I not in honor bound to apprise them of their fare? As I hate deception, even where the imagination only is concerned, I will. It is needless to premise that my table is large enough to hold the ladies. Of this they had ocular proof yesterday. To say how it is usually covered is more essential ; and this shall be the purport of my letter.
Seite 232 - Gates showed his letter to General Lincoln and Colonel Wilkinson, who demurred to its personality ; but he evidently conceived it an achievement of the pen, and spurned their criticism...
Seite 352 - At the same time, I cannot but regret that a matter of such magnitude, and so interesting to our general operations, should have reached me by report only, or through the channel of letters, not bearing that authenticity which the importance of it required, and which it would have received by a line under your signature, stating the simple fact.
Seite 443 - I think any person or power ought to do it, whilst your conduct is not opposed to the general interest of the people and the measures they are pursuing ; the latter, that is our actions, depending upon ourselves, may be controlled ; while the powers of thinking, originating in higher causes, cannot always be moulded to our wishes.
Seite 345 - This is finishing a noble career early," said the count sadly, as he found his death approaching — then, as if conscious of the degrading service in which he had fallen, hired out by his prince to aid a foreign power in quelling the brave struggle of a people for their liberty, and contrasting it with that in which the chivalrous youth by his bedside was engaged — "I die," added he bitterly, "the victim of my ambition and of the avarice of my sovereign.
Seite 391 - 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.
Seite 55 - ... and it was necessary to maintain the utmost vigilance at all his posts to prevent his camp from being surprised. The operations of the enemy might be delayed by the bad condition of the roads, and the want of horses to move their artillery, but he anticipated an attack as soon as the roads were passable, and apprehended a disastrous result unless speedily reinforced.
Seite 217 - Stark had with difficulty been prevailed upon to accept the command of the other, upon the express condition that he should not be obliged to join the main army, but should be left to his own discretion, to make war in his own partisan style, hovering about the enemy in their march through the country, and accountable to none but the authorities of New Hampshire.