| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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