 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1834 - 574 páginas
...greatly, there being near sixty killed and wounded; a large proportion of the number we had. The Virginia troops showed a good deal of bravery, and were nearly all killed ; for I believe, out of three companies that were there, scarcely thirty men are left alive. Captain... | |
 | George Washington - 1834 - 574 páginas
...greatly, there being near sixty killed and wounded; a large proportion of the number we had. The Virginia troops showed a good deal of bravery, and were nearly all killed ; for I believe, out of three companies that were there, scarcely thirty men are left alive. Captain... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1834 - 574 páginas
...greatly, there being near sixty killed and wounded; a large proportion of the number we had. The Virginia troops showed a good deal of bravery, and were nearly all killed ; for I believe, out of three companies that were there, scarcely thirty men are left alive. Captain... | |
 | Samuel G. Drake - 1841 - 790 páginas
...which he wrote to his mother, dated July Ittth, he thus speaks of himself: — •• The Virginia troops showed a good deal of bravery, and were nearly all killed ; for i believe, out of three companies that were there, scarcely 30 men are left alive. Captain Peyrouny,... | |
 | James Wimer - 1841 - 788 páginas
...letter which he wrote to his mother, dated July 18th, he thus speaks of himself: — "The Virginia troops showed a good deal of bravery, and were nearly all killed ; for 1 believe, out of three companies that were there, scarcely thirty men are left alive. Captain... | |
 | John Brown Dillon - 1843 - 482 páginas
...extreme confusion, and striking the whole mass with such a panic that no order could be restored." f Notwithstanding the orders of the General to the contrary,...that were there, scarcely thirty men were left alive. Captain Peyrouny, and all his officers down to a corporal, were killed. Captain Poison had nearly as... | |
 | Sherman Day - 1843 - 754 páginas
...greatly, there being near 60 killed and wounded — a large proportion of the number we had. The Virginia troops' showed a good deal of bravery, and were nearly all killed ; for I believe out of three companies that were there, scarcely 30 men are left alive. Capt. Peyrouny... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1845 - 616 páginas
...for the enemy's sharpshooters. ' By the all-powerful dispensa» Washington said — " The Virginia troops showed a good deal of bravery, and were nearly all killed ; for, I believe, out of three companies that were there, scarcely 30 men are left alive. Capt. Peyrouny,... | |
 | Samuel G. Drake - 1848 - 746 páginas
...letter which he wrote to his mother, dated July 18th, he thus speaks of himself: — " The Virginia troops showed a good deal of bravery, and were nearly all killed ; for I believe, out of three companies that were there, scarcely 30 men are left alive. Captain I... | |
 | Margaret Cockburn Conkling - 1850 - 266 páginas
...there being nearly sixty killed and wounded — -a large portion of the number we had, " The Virginia troops showed a good deal of bravery, and were nearly all killed ; for I believe, out of three companies that were there, scarcely thirty men were left alive. Captain... | |
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The Virginia troops showed a good deal of bravery, and were nearly all killed ; for I believe, out of three companies that were there, scarcely thirty men are left alive. Captain Peyrouny, and all his officers down to a corporal, were killed. Captain... 
