I have ventured these last two days to look General Washington's whole force in the face in the position on the outside of my works, and have the pleasure to assure your Excellency that there is but one wish throughout the army, which is that the enemy... Memoir of His Own Life - الصفحة 262بواسطة Roger Lamb - 1811 - عدد الصفحات: 296عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| 1852 - عدد الصفحات: 508
...service. I have the honor to be, &c. CORNWALLIS. York-Town in Virginia, September 29, 1781. Sir, — I have ventured these last two days to look General...whole army, which was, that the enemy would advance. I have this evening received your letter of the 24th, which has given me the greatest satisfaction.... | |
| 1852 - عدد الصفحات: 508
...service. I have the honor to be, &c. CORNWALLIS. York-Town in Virginia, September 29, 1781. Sir, — I have ventured these last two days to look General...whole army, which was, that the enemy would advance. I have this evening received your letter of the 24th, which has given me the greatest satisfaction.... | |
| William Maxwell - 1852 - عدد الصفحات: 500
...service. I have the honor to be, &c. CORNWALLIS. York-Town in Virginia, September 29 , 1781. Sir, — I have ventured these last two days to look General...whole army, which was, that the enemy would advance. I have this evening received your letter of the 24th, which has given me the greatest satisfaction.... | |
| Washington Irving - 1857 - عدد الصفحات: 500
...four, should he still possess the post at Gloucester Point. Cornwallis immediately wrote in reply : "I have ventured these last two days to look General...face in the position on the outside of my works, and have the pleasure to assure your Excellency, that there is but one wish throughout the army, which... | |
| Washington Irving - 1857 - عدد الصفحات: 588
...at Gloucester Point CORNWALL1S ABANDONS HIS OUTWORKS. 381 Cornwallis immediately wrote in reply : " I have ventured these last two days to look General...face in the position on the outside of my works, and have the pleasure to assure your Excellency, that there is but one wish throughout the army, which... | |
| Washington Irving - 1857 - عدد الصفحات: 550
...four, should he still possess the post at Gloucester Point. Cornwallis immediately wrote in reply : "I have ventured these last two days to look General...face in the position on the outside of my works, and have the pleasure to assure your Excellency that there is but one wish throughout the army, which is... | |
| Washington Irving - 1859 - عدد الصفحات: 468
...four, should he still possess the post at Gloucester Point. Cornwallis immediately wrote in reply: " I have ventured these last two days to look General...face in the position on the outside of my works, and have the pleasure to assure your Excellency that there is but one wish throughout the army, which is... | |
| Benson John Lossing - 1860 - عدد الصفحات: 872
...with twenty-three ships, and that relief would be speedily sent. The earl had vauntingly replied : " I have ventured, these last two days, to look General...face in the position on the outside of my works, and have the pleasure to assure your excellency that there is but one wish throughout the army, which is,... | |
| R. M. DEVENS - 1876 - عدد الصفحات: 1014
...himself in Virginia, Lord Cornwallis vauntingly wrote to General Clinton, his superior, as follows : — he upper or rounded part is about forty feet high,...a kind of oval pedestal, from forty to sixty feet have the pleasure to assure your Excellency that there is hut one wish throughout the army, which is,... | |
| Richard Miller Devens - 1879 - عدد الصفحات: 680
...in Virginia, Lord Cornwallis vaunts ingly wrote to General Clinton, his superior, as follows : — "I have ventured, these last two days, to look General...face, in the position on the outside of my works, and have the pleasure to assure your Excellency that there is but one wish throughout the army, which is,... | |
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