 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1854 - 454 pages
...rendered fit for service once more. " And before dark," says Cornwallis, " the enemy's whole paral" lei and batteries appeared to be nearly complete. At "...this time we knew that there was no part of the whole " front attacked on which we could show a single gun, " and our shells were nearly expended. I had,... | |
 | Frank Moore - United States - 1860 - 622 pages
...public advantage, for the cannon having been spiked in a hurry, were soon rendered fit for service again, and before dark the whole parallel and batteries...this time we knew that there was no part of the whole front attacked in which we could show a single gun, and our shells were nearly expended ; I had therefore... | |
 | John Frederick Smith - Great Britain - 1861 - 644 pages
...were soon made fit for use again, and lord Cornwallis himself states, that " before dark the enemy's whole parallel and batteries appeared to be nearly complete. At this time," he says, " we knew that there was no part of the whole front attacked in which we could show a single... | |
 | Henry Lee - Southern States - 1869 - 658 pages
...been spiked in a hurry, were soon rendered fit for service again ; and before dark the whole parallel batteries appeared to be nearly complete. At this time we knew that there was no part of the whole front attacked 6n which we could show a single gun, and our shells were nearly expended. I therefore... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 656 pages
...were soon made fit for use again, and lord Cornwallis himself states, that " bef ore dark the enemy's whole parallel and batteries appeared to be nearly complete. At this time," ho says, " we know that there was no part of the whole front attacked in which we could show a single... | |
 | Frank Moore - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1876 - 1230 pages
...public advantage, for the cannon having been spiked in a hurry, were soon rendered fit for service again, and before dark the whole parallel and batteries...this time we knew that there was no part of the whole front attacked in which we could show a single gun, and our shells were nearly expended ; I had therefore... | |
 | Henry Phelps Johnston - History - 1881 - 224 pages
...public advantage ; for the cannon, having been spiked in a hurry, were soon rendered fit for service again ; and before dark the whole parallel and batteries...this time we knew that there was no part of the whole front attacked on which we could throw a single gun, and our shells were nearly expended ; I had therefore... | |
 | Clinton Ross - American fiction - 1896 - 346 pages
...public advantage ; for the cannon, having been spiked in a hurry, were soon rendered fit for service again ; and before dark the whole parallel and batteries...this time we knew that there was no part of the whole front attacked on which we could throw a single gun, and our shells were nearly expended ; I had therefore... | |
 | John O'Hanlon - Irish - 1907 - 484 pages
...on the English side. The cannons, having been spiked in a hurry, were soon rendered fit for service again, and before dark the whole parallel and batteries appeared to be nearly complete. At this time, Cornwallis knew that there was no part of the whole front opposed on which he could point a single... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1901 - 692 pages
...public advantage, for the cannon having been spiked in a -hurry, were soon rendered fit for service again, and before dark the whole parallel and batteries...this time we knew that there was no part of the whole front attacked on which we could show a single gun, and our shells were nearly expended. I, therefore,... | |
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At this time we knew that there was no part of the whole front attacked on which we could show a single gun, and our shells were nearly expended. I, therefore, had only to choose between preparing to surrender next day, or endeavouring to get off with... 
