| Emory Upton - United States - 1904 - 532 pages
...troops and filled their minds with apprehension and despair. The militia, instead of calling forth their utmost efforts to a brave and manly opposition in...impatient to return. Great numbers of them have gone off—in some instances almost by whole regiments, by half ones, and by companies at a time. This circumstance... | |
| United States - 1905 - 458 pages
...troops, and filled their minds with apprehension and despair. The militia, instead of calling forth their utmost efforts to a brave and manly opposition in...off ; in some instances, almost by whole regiments, by half ones, and by companies, at a time. This circumstance of itself, independent of others, when... | |
| Washington Irving - 1905 - 620 pages
...troops, and filled their minds with apprehension and despair. The militia, instead of calling forth their utmost efforts to a brave and manly opposition in order to repair our losses, Me dismayed, intractable, and impatient to return. Great numbers of them have gone off ; in some instances... | |
| Robert Marion La Follette, William Matthews Hardy, Charles Higgins - Inventors - 1906 - 534 pages
...troops and filled their minds with apprehension and despair. The militia, instead of calling forth their utmost efforts to a brave and manly opposition in...off — in some instances almost by whole regiments, by half ones, and by companies at a time. This circumstance of itself, independent of others, when... | |
| Washington Irving - 1907 - 620 pages
...troops, and filled their minds with apprehension and despair. The militia, instead of calling forth their utmost efforts to a brave and manly opposition in order to repair our losses, WASHINGTON ON TEE STTlfATJOJf. 393 are dismayed, intractable, and impatient to return. Great numbers... | |
| George Washington - Presidents - 1908 - 500 pages
...troops, and filled their minds with apprehension and despair. The militia, instead of calling forth their utmost efforts to a brave and manly opposition in...off; in some instances, almost by whole regiments, by half ones, and by companies at a time. This circumstance, of itself, independent of others, when... | |
| Howard Walter Caldwell, Clark Edmund Persinger - United States - 1909 - 512 pages
...sustained on the 27th ultimo has dispirited too great a proportion of our troops. . . . The militia . . . are dismayed, intractable, and impatient to return....off; in some instances, almost by whole regiments. ... I am obliged to confess my want of confidence in the generality of the troops. ... I am . . . fully... | |
| Howard Walter Caldwell, Clark Edmund Persinger - United States - 1909 - 544 pages
...sustained on the 27th ultimo has dispirited too great a proportion of our troops. . . . The militia . . . are dismayed, intractable, and impatient to return. Great numbers of them have gone oft ; in some instances, almost by whole regiments. ... I am obliged to confess my want of confidence... | |
| Josephus Nelson Larned - Genius - 1911 - 330 pages
...scarcely two thirds as much. After the battle of Long Island he wrote to Congress : " The militia . . . are dismayed, intractable, and impatient to return....off, in some instances almost by whole regiments." He goes on to say that their want of discipline has infected the remaining soldiery, and he feels obliged... | |
| United States. War Department - 1912 - 540 pages
...troops and filled their minds with apprehension and despair. The militia, instead of calling forth their utmost efforts to a brave and manly opposition in...off — in some instances almost by whole regiments, by half ones, and by companies at a time. This circumstance of itself independent of others, when fronted... | |
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