 Heaven I could add, that it had been a more fortunate one for us." General Howe reported his loss to be seventy-one killed, four hundred and fifty wounded, and fourteen missing. The American loss, as stated by Dr. Gordon on the authority of the Board...  Life of Washington - Seite 259von George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1855Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - 1923 - 318 Seiten
...5-324; Land Records. Philadelphia. the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, said, "Nothing has struck me so much as General Washington's attacking and giving battle to General Howe's army. To bring troops trained within the year to do this promises everything. The battle, with the surrender... | |
 | Edwin Wiley - 1915 - 324 Seiten
...it upon the views of the Count de Vergenncs, who remarked to the American commissioners in Paris, " That nothing struck him so much as General Washington's...raised within a year, to this, promised every thing." — Life of Washington, p. 241. From this, as well as from other occurrences, it was evident that the... | |
 | 1830 - 630 Seiten
...and compliments on the state of affairs in America, Count de Vergennes remarked, ' that nothing had struck him so much as General Washington's attacking and giving battle to General 1830.] United States. 481 Howe's army ; that to bring an army raised within a year to this, promised... | |
 | George Washington Greene - 1865 - 486 Seiten
...felt at once by the American Commissioners in Paris. "Nothing," said Count Vergennes, " has struck me so much as General Washington's attacking and giving battle to General Howe's army ; to bring an army raised within a year to this, promises everything." A continued struggle of six... | |
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