Official Letters to the Honorable American Congress: Written, During the War Between the United Colonies and Great Britain, by His Excellency, George Washington, ...Cadell Junior and Davies, G. G. and J. Robinson, B. and J. White [and 4 others in London], 1795 - United States |
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Page v - Official Letters to the Honorable American Congress, Written, during the War between the United Colonies and Great Britain, by his Excellency, George Washington, Commander in Chief of the Continental Forces, now President of the United States. Copied, by Special Permission, from the Original Papers preserved in the Office of the Secretary of State, Philadelphia [by John Carey] Vol.
Page 363 - Being hard pressed by our troops, who had already got possession of their artillery, they attempted to file off" by a road on their right, leading to Princeton. But, perceiving their intention, I threw a body of troops in their way ; which immediately checked them. Finding, from our disposition, that they were surrounded, and...
Page 247 - I am persuaded, and as fully convinced as I am of any one fact that has happened, that our liberties must of necessity be greatly hazarded if not entirely lost, if their defence is left to any but a permanent standing army; I mean, one to exist during the war.
Page 283 - ... recruiting men faster than we do. To this may be added the inextricable difficulty of forming one corps out of another, and arranging matters with any degree of order, in the face of an enemy who are watching for advantages. "At Cambridge last year, where the officers (and more than a sufficiency of them) were all upon the spot, we found it a work of such extreme difficulty to know their...
Page 335 - State, the want of exertion in the principal gentlemen of the country, and a fatal supineness and insensibility of danger, till it is too late to prevent an evil that was not only foreseen, but foretold, have been the causes of our late disgraces.
Page 112 - The town, although it has suffered greatly, is not in so bad a state as I expected to find it ; and I have a particular pleasure in being able to inform you, Sir, that your house has received no damage worth mentioning. Your furniture is in tolerable order, and the family pictures are all left entire and untouched.
Page 128 - ... enlisted will expire on the 1st of July next, and as the loss of such a valuable and brave body of men will be of great injury to the service, I would submit it to the consideration of Congress, whether it would not be best to adopt some method to induce them to continue. They are indeed a very useful corps ; but I need not mention this, as their importance is already well known to the Congress.
Page 91 - The hazard is too great, in the first place ; in the next, the trouble and perplexity of disbanding one army and raising another at the same instant, and in such a critical situation as the last was...
Page 144 - Of this notable arrangement, Washington, as we observed, was not yet aware. " The designs of the enemy," writes he, " are too much behind the curtain for me to form any accurate opinion of their plan of operations for the summer's campaign. We are left to wander, therefore, in the field of conjecture.
Page 91 - ... enlistment, a kind of familiarity takes place which brings on a relaxation of discipline, unlicensed furloughs, and other indulgences incompatible with order and good government...