 ... all the country, not thinking himself safe till he arrived at Philadelphia, where the inhabitants could protect him. This whole transaction gave us Americans the first suspicion that our exalted ideas of the prowess of British regular troops had not...  Life of George Washington - Page 221by Washington Irving - 1869Full view - About this book
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 558 pages
...at Philadelphia, where the inhabitants could protect him. This whole transaction gave us Americans the first suspicion that our exalted ideas of the...British regular troops had not been well founded. * In their first march too, from their landing till they got beyond the settlements, they had plundered... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 556 pages
...inhabitants could protect him. This whole transaction gave us Americans the first suspicion that our exulted ideas of the prowess of British regular troops had not been well founded. In their first march too, from their landing till they got beyond the settlements, they had plundered... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1834 - 682 pages
...at Philadelphia, where the inhabitants could protect n'm. This whole transaction gave us Americans the first suspicion that our exalted ideas of the...British regular troops had not been well founded. In their first march too, from their landing ill they got beyond the settlements, they had )lundered... | |
 | Pennsylvania - 1834 - 438 pages
...at Philadelphia, where the inhabitants could protect him. This whole transaction gave us Americans the first suspicion that our exalted ideas of the...British regular troops had not been well founded. "In their first march, too, from their landing till they got beyond the settlements, they had plundered... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 pages
...at Philadelphia, where the inhabitants could protect him. This whole transaction gave us Americans the first suspicion, that our exalted ideas of the...British regular troops had not been well founded.* In their first march, too, from their landing till they got beyond the settlements, they had plundered... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1840 - 668 pages
...at Philadelphia, where the inhabitants could protect him. This whole transaction gave us Americans the first suspicion, that our exalted ideas of the...British regular troops had not been well founded.* In their first march, too, from their landing till they got beyond the settlements, they had plundered... | |
 | George William Featherstonhaugh - Southern States - 1844 - 422 pages
...Dr. Franklin, alluding to it in his autobiography, says : " This whole transaction gave us Americans the first suspicion that our exalted ideas of the...British regular troops had not been well founded." — ' Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin,' vol. ip 220. the mother country. Hard terras had been imposed... | |
 | George William Featherstonhaugh - Slavery - 1844 - 180 pages
...Dr. Franklin, alluding to it in his autobiography, says : " This whole transaction gave us Americans the first suspicion that our exalted ideas of the prowess of British regular troops hod not been well founded." — . ' Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin/ vol. i., p. 220. j not treated this... | |
 | George William Featherstonhaugh - Cherokee Indians - 1847 - 812 pages
...Dr. Franklin, in his Autobiography, speaking of it, says, " This whole transaction gave us Americans the first suspicion that our exalted ideas of the...British regular troops had not been well founded."* And I have heard several of Washington's nearest relatives say that he also entertained that opinion... | |
 | George William Featherstonhaugh - Cherokee Indians - 1847 - 444 pages
...Dr. Franklin, in his Autobiography, speaking of it, says, " This whole transaction gave us Americans the first suspicion that our exalted ideas of the...British regular troops had not been well founded." 4 ' 1 ' And I have heard several of Washington's nearest relatives say that he also entertained that... | |
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