Washington and the Generals of the American Revolution ...Carey and Hart, 1848 |
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advance afterwards American army ANTHONY WAYNE appointed arms Arnold arrived artillery attack attempt battle battle of Camden battle of Germantown BATTLE OF MONMOUTH bayonet brave brigade BRIGADIER-GENERAL British army Burgoyne camp Canada cause cavalry Colonel colonies command commander-in-chief conduct confidence Congress continental corps crossed defeat defence Delaware detachment duty enemy enemy's engaged evacuation expedition field fire fleet force Fort Lee French gallant garrison Gates Germantown Greene honour Hudson hundred Indians infantry Island Jersey joined Knox letter Lord Cornwallis Lord Stirling main body major-general Maryland ment Mercer miles military militia morning movement night officers ordered party patriot Pennsylvania Philadelphia Philip Schuyler Point position prisoners Putnam rank rear received regiment reinforcements retired retreat Revolution river sent Sir Henry Clinton soldiers soon spirit Staten Island success Sullivan thousand Ticonderoga tion took Trenton troops victory Virginia Washington Wayne winter wounded York
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第 15 頁 - But lest some unlucky event should happen unfavorable to my reputation, I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room that I this day declare, with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with.
第 9 頁 - I put out my setting-pole to try to stop the raft, that the ice might pass by, when the rapidity of the stream threw it with so much violence against the pole, that it jerked me out into ten feet water, but I fortunately saved myself by catching hold of one of the raft logs. Notwithstanding all our efforts we could not get the raft to either shore, but were obliged, as we were near an island, to quit our raft and make to it.
第 212 頁 - The bearer is sent down to know whether your plan was attempted last night, and if not to inform you, that Christmas-day at night, one hour before day, is the time fixed upon for our attempt on Trenton. For Heaven's sake, keep this to yourself, as the discovery of it may prove fatal to us ; our numbers, sorry am I to say, being less than I had any conception of; but necessity, dire necessity, will, nay must, justify an attack.
第 20 頁 - Could I have foreseen the difficulties which have come upon us; could I have known that such a backwardness would have been discovered among the old soldiers to the service, all the generals upon earth should not have convinced me of the propriety of delaying an attack upon Boston till this time. When it can now be attempted I will not undertake to say, but thus much I will answer for, that no opportunity can present itself earlier than my wishes.
第 9 頁 - We expected to have found the river frozen, but it was not, only about fifty yards from each shore. The ice, I suppose, had broken up above, for it was driving in vast quantities.
第 9 頁 - But before we were half way over we were jammed in the ice in such a manner that we expected every moment our raft to sink and ourselves to perish. I put out my setting pole to try to stop the raft...
第 130 頁 - This horde of savages, with their allies, abandoned themselves to flight, and dispersed with terror and dismay, leaving our victorious army in full and quiet possession of the field of battle, which terminated under the influence of the guns of the British garrison, as you will observe by the enclosed correspondence between Major Campbell, the commandant, and myself, upon the occasion.
第 313 頁 - It is with extreme regret, that I announce the death of Brigadier-General Poor on the 9th instant, an officer of distinguished merit, who, as a citizen and a soldier, had every claim to the esteem of his country .f I have the honor to be, &c.
第 249 頁 - ... to my persecutors in general, and to the chief of them in particular, that in the hour of danger, when the affairs of America wore a gloomy aspect, when our illustrious general was retreating through New Jersey, with a handful of men, I did not propose to my associates, basely to quit the general, and sacrifice the cause of my country to my personal safety, by going over to the enemy and making my peace.
第 129 頁 - All these orders were obeyed with spirit and promptitude; but such was the impetuosity of the charge by the first line of infantry, that the Indians and Canadian militia and volunteers were...