 | Elizabeth Fries Ellet - 1819 - 376 Seiten
...tired horse and chaise ; thus we began our pilgrimage, alternately walking and riding, the roads filled with frighted women and children ; some in carts with...fleeing into the woods. But what added greatly to the horrors of the scene, was our passing through the bloody field at Monotong, which was strewed with... | |
 | Elizabeth Fries Ellet - 1850 - 352 Seiten
...pilgrimage, alternately walking and riding, the roads filled with frighted women and children ; some in carta with their tattered furniture, others on foot fleeing into the woods. But what added greatly to the horrors of the scene, was our passing through the bloody field at MoBotoBgj-which was strewed with... | |
 | Alice Brown - 1896 - 346 Seiten
...walking and riding, the roads filld with frighted women & Children Some in carts with their tatterd furniture, others on foot fleeing into the woods....one affectionate Father with a Cart looking for his murdered son & picking up his Neighbours who had fallen in Battle, in order for their Burial." She... | |
 | Mary Caroline Crawford - 1909 - 540 Seiten
...walking and riding, the roads filld with frighted women & Children Some in carts with their tatterd furniture, others on foot fleeing into the woods....one affectionate Father with a Cart looking for his murdered son & picking up his Neighbours who had fallen in Battle, in order for their Burial." Yet... | |
 | Ellen Chase - 1910 - 456 Seiten
...horse-chaise. Thus we began our [pilgrimage] alternately walking and riding, the roads filled with frightened women and children, some in carts with their tattered...furniture, others on foot fleeing into the woods. But what greatly added to the horror of the scene was our passing through the bloody field at Menotomy, which... | |
 | Mary Beth Norton - 1996 - 412 Seiten
...made the opposite choice, for on the morning of April 20 an observer found the roads around Boston "filld with frighted women and children, some in carts...furniture, others on foot fleeing into the woods." In the months that followed such scenes became commonplace in New England. After the battle of Bunker... | |
 | Karen Zeinert - 1996 - 104 Seiten
...pilgrimage [to Andover, twenty miles away] alternately walking and riding, the roads filled with frightened women and children, some in carts with their tattered furniture, others on foot fleeing into the woods.8 Mary Jemison and the Seneca Home Front In 1758, fifteen-year-old Mary Jemison (c. 1742-1833)... | |
 | Linda K. Kerber - 2017 - 356 Seiten
...Concord is followed by a woman's memoir of her flight from Cambridge, "the road filled with frightened women and children, some in carts with their tattered furniture, others on foot fleeing into the woods."5 Sometimes women's presence is ceremonial: "On the third day after the battle [in which the... | |
 | Cokie Roberts - 2004 - 385 Seiten
...town: "thus we began our pilgrimage, alternately walking and riding, the roads filled with frightened women and children, some in carts with their tattered...fleeing into the woods. But what added greatly to the hortors of the scene, was our passing through the bloody field at Monotong, which was strewed with... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - 1876 - 564 Seiten
...tired horse-chaise. Thus we began our [pilgrimage?] alternately walking and riding, the roads filled with frighted women and children, some in carts with...greatly to the horror of the scene was our passing through the bloody field at Menotomy, which was strewed with the mangled bodies. We met one affectionate... | |
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Thus we began our pilgrimage, alternately walking and riding, the roads filled with frightened women and children, some in carts with their tattered furniture, others on foot fleeing into the woods. 