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" I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt, though death was leveling my companions on every side... "
The Monthly review. New and improved ser. New and improved ser - Page 95
1839
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The Writings of George Washington: pt. I. Official letters relating to the ...

George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1834 - 574 pages
...you, that I have not as yet composed the latter. But, by the all-powerful dispensations of Providence, I have been protected beyond all human probability...through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt, although death was levelling my companions on every side of me ! We have been most...
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The Writings of George Washington: pt.I. Official letters relating to the ...

George Washington - United States - 1834 - 574 pages
...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...
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The Writings of George Washington: pt. I. Official letters relating to the ...

George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1834 - 574 pages
...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...
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The Religious Opinions and Character of Washington

Edward Charles M'Guire - 1836 - 432 pages
...probability, or * We shall mainly rely upon his " Writings," as recently edited and published by J. Sparks. expectation ; for I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt, although death was levelling my companions on every side of me." Was there not, indeed,...
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Washington

François Guizot - Presidents - 1840 - 262 pages
...that were there, scarcely thirty men are left alive. By the all-powerful dispensations of Providence I have been protected beyond all human probability...through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt, although death was levelling my companions on every side." — Washington's Writings,...
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The Foreign Quarterly Review, Volumes 26-27

1841 - 566 pages
...orders of the general. He rode in every direction, in the thickest of the fight, hut escaped unhurt. By the all-powerful dispensations of Providence,"...through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet 1 escaped unhurt although death u as levelling my companions on every side of me." Out of eighty -six...
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Events in Indian History: Beginning with an Account of the Origin of the ...

James Wimer - Indian captivities - 1841 - 788 pages
...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...
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Historical Collections of the State of Pennsylvania: Containing a Copious ...

Sherman Day - Pennsylvania - 1843 - 754 pages
...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. Capts. Orme and Morris, two of the aids-de-camp, were wounded early in the engagement, which rendered...
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Historical Collections of Virginia: Containing a Collection of the Most ...

Henry Howe - Virginia - 1845 - 616 pages
...frontier warfare." — Day's Penn. lions of Providence,' said he, in a letter to hie brother, ' I hare been protected beyond all human probability or expectation,...although death was levelling my companions on every sido of me.'* So bloody a contest has rarely been witnessed. The number of officers in the engagement...
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Historical Collections of Virginia: Containing a Collection of the Most ...

Henry Howe - Virginia - 1845 - 562 pages
...been sacrificed to his obstinacy, and want of experience in frontier warfare." — Day's Penn. tionp of Providence,' said he, in a letter to his brother,...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.'*...
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