 | Henry Howe - 1845 - 562 páginas
...in frontier warfare." — Day's Penn. tionp of Providence,' said he, in a letter to his brother, ' I have been protected beyond all human probability...four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot uiider me, yet I escaped unhurt, although death was levelling my companions on every side of me.'*... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1845 - 596 páginas
...in frontier warfare." — Day's Penn. tiona of Providence," said he, in a letter to his brother, ' I have been protected beyond all human probability...expectation, for I had .four bullets through my coat, and two hones shot under me, yet I escaped unhurt, although death was levelling my companions on every side... | |
 | George Washington - 1847 - 574 páginas
...killed in the field, where died many other brave officers. I luckily escaped without a wound, though I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me. Captains Orme and Morris, two of the aids-de-camp, were wounded early in the engagement, which rendered... | |
 | George Washington - 1847 - 720 páginas
...killed in the field, where died many other brave officers. I luckily escaped without a wound, though I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me. Captains Orme and Morris, two of the aids-de-camp, were wounded early in the engagement, which rendered... | |
 | John England - 1849 - 508 páginas
...no means unimportant. He wrote to his brother: •'By the all-powerful dispensation of Providence, I have been protected beyond all human probability...was levelling my companions on every side of me." It is true, that in this action, though unexpectedly attacked, and his veteran European soldiers thrown... | |
 | Margaret Cockburn Conkling - 1850 - 276 páginas
...killed in the field, where died many other brave officers. I luckily escaped without a wound, though I had four bullets through my coat and two horses shot under me. Captains Orme and Morris, two of the aids-de-camp, were wounded early in the engagement, which rendered... | |
 | Margaret Cockburn Conkling - 1850 - 266 páginas
...killed in the field, where died many other brave officers. I luckily escaped without a wound, though I had four bullets through my coat and two horses shot under me. Captains Orme and Morris, two of the aids-de-camp, were wounded early in the engagement, which rendered... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1852 - 614 páginas
...frontier warfare." — Duy't Penn. 13 tions of Providence,' said he, in a letter to his brother, ' I have been protected beyond all human probability...was levelling my companions on every side of me.'* So bloody a contest has rarely been witnessed. The number of officers in the engagement was 86, of... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1852 - 948 páginas
...his brother, he remarked, " By the all-powei-ful dispensations of Providence, I have been pro tected - and escaped unhurt, although death was leveling my companions on every side of me." Dr. Craik, the... | |
 | George Washington - 1852 - 464 páginas
...until I have the happiness of seeing you at Mount Vernon, which I now most ardently wish for." yond all human probability or expectation ; for I had four...through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt, although death was levelling my companions on every side of me ! Thus ended the second... | |
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I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt, though death was levelling my companions on every side of me... 
