 | Jacob Harris Patton - United States - 1868 - 890 pages
...especially to Washington. In a letter to his brother Augustine he says : " By the all-powerful dispensation of Providence, I have been protected beyond all human...expectation ; for I had four bullets through my coat, two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt, though death was levelling my companions on every side... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1869 - 620 pages
...early opportunity of contradicting the first, and of assuring you that I have not composed the latter. But, by the all-powerful dispensations of Providence,...four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot nnder me, yet escaped unhurt, though death was leveling my companions on every side of me ! " We have... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1870 - 530 pages
...after the battle, ' I have been protected beyond all human No. 57. " 9 probability or expectations ; for I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me ; yet I escaped unhurt, although death was levelling my companions on every side of me.' The failure of this... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1870 - 272 pages
...after the battle, ' I have been protected beyond all human No. 57. 9 probability or expectations ; for I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me; yet I escaped unhurt, although death was levelling my companions on every side of me.' The failure of this... | |
 | Washington Irving - Presidents - 1871 - 650 pages
...first, and of assuring you that I have not composed the latter. But, by the all-powerful dispensatious of Providence, I have been protected beyond all human...and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt, though death was leveling my companions on every side of me ! " We have been most scandalously beaten... | |
 | George Washington - Presidents - 1871 - 240 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 aides-de-camp, were wounded early in the engagement, which rendered... | |
 | Robert Sears - United States - 1876 - 664 pages
...felt and acknowledged this, and said in a letter to his brother: ' By the all-powerful dispensation of Providence, I have been protected beyond all human...through my coat, and two horses shot under me ; yet I escaped unhurt, although death was levelling my companions on every side of me/ Not only was this... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - Statesmen - 1876 - 214 pages
...dispensations of Providence," wrote Washington himself to his venerated parent, after Braddock's defeat, " I have been protected beyond all human probability...through my coat, and two horses shot under me ; yet I escaped unhurt, although death was levelling my companions on every side of me." Well did the eloquent... | |
 | François Guizot - Great Britain - 1876 - 568 pages
...mortal wound. Colonel Washington, preserved by God for other days, sought in vain to rally his soldiers. "By the all-powerful dispensations of Providence,...protected beyond all human probability or expectation," he wrote to his brother after the action; "for I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1876 - 878 pages
...shot under him, and four bullets passed through his coat Writing of this to his brother, ho remarked, "By the all-powerful dispensations of Providence,...protected beyond all human probability or expectation, * * * although death was leveling my companions on every side." ' Note 1, page 168. See picture on... | |
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I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt, though death was levelling my companions on every side... 
