 | John Marshall - Presidents - 1836 - 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...well appointed enemy, superior in number to our whole collectec force, would be sufficiently disagreeable ; but when it is added, that theit example has... | |
 | Robert W. Lincoln - Presidents - 1836 - 530 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...are dismayed, intractable, and impatient to return." Washington had recourse to entreaty, to persuasion, and to promises, to arrest the progress of these... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1837 - 658 pages
...LIFE OF WASHINGTON. 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... | |
 | George Washington - United States - 1837 - 644 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... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1834 - 590 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... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1837 - 654 pages
...despair. The militia, instead of calling forth their utmost efforts to a brave and manly opposition hi order to repair our losses, are dismayed, intractable,...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... | |
 | Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1839 - 666 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... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - United States - 1839 - 588 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... | |
 | Grenville Mellen - United States - 1839 - 934 pages
...their mini!* with apprehension and despair. The militia, instead of calling forth their utmost effort! to a brave and manly opposition, in order to repair...return. Great numbers of them have gone off; in some instanco almost by whole regiments, by half ones, and by companies at a time. This circumstance of... | |
 | William Smyth - History, Modern - 1840 - 514 pages
...victories of Howe, September 2nd, he writes — " Our situation is truly distressing; the militias are dismayed, intractable, and impatient to return...off, in some instances almost by whole regiments. With the deepest concern I am obliged to confess my want of confidence in the generality of the troops.... | |
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Our situation is truly distressing. The check our detachment sustained on the 27th ultimo has dispirited too great a proportion of our troops and filled their minds with apprehension and despair. The militia, instead of calling forth their utmost efforts... 
