The Works of Washington Irving: Life of WashingtonJenson Society, 1907 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 435 - For some days past, there has been little less than a famine in camp. A part of the army has been a week without any kind of flesh, and the rest three or four days. Naked and starving as they are, we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been ere this excited by their suffering to a general Mutiny and dispersion.
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 abundantly for them, and, from my soul, I pity those miseries, which it is neither in my power to relieve nor prevent.
Seite 503 - ... necessary evidences, and perhaps might bring on a paper war betwixt the adherents to both parties, which may occasion some disagreeable feuds on the continent ; for all are not my friends, nor all your admirers. I must entreat, therefore, from your love of justice, that you will immediately exhibit your charge, and that on the first halt I may be brought to a trial.
Seite 339 - Vergennes observed to the American commissioners in Paris on their first interview, that nothing struck him so much as General Washington's attacking and giving battle to General Howe's army ; that to bring an army raised within a year to this pass promised everything. The effect on the army itself may be judged from letters written at the time by officers to the'ir friends. " Though we gave away a complete victory...
Seite 43 - In point of policy," said March i. he, in a letter to the President of Congress, " under the present situation of our affairs, this doctrine cannot be supported. The balance of prisoners is greatly against us ; and a general regard to the happiness of the whole should mark our conduct. Can we imagine, that our enemies will not mete the same punishments, the same indignities, the same cruelties, to those belonging to us, in their possession, that we impose on theirs in our power ? Why should we suppose...
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 232 - Upwards of one hundred men, women and children, have perished by the hands of the ruffians, to whom, it is asserted, you have paid the price of blood.
Seite 311 - I was ready to believe," writes Burgoyne " (for I had experience), that patience and fortitude, in a supreme degree, were to be found, as well as every other virtue, under the most tender forms, I was astonished at this proposal. After so long an agitation of spirits, exhausted not only for want of rest, but absolutely want of food, drenched in rains, for twelve hours together, that a woman should be capable of such an undertaking as delivering herself to the enemy, probably in the night, and uncertain...
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 502 - Sir, you cannot afford me greater pleasure than in giving me the opportunity of showing to America the sufficiency of her respective servants. I trust that temporary power of office, and the tinsel dignity attending it, will not be able, by all the mists they can raise, to offuseato the bright rays of truth. In the meantime, your Excellency can have no objection to my retiring from the army,