 | Walter Harold Wilkin - United States - 1914 - 300 pages
...a very favourable light. But when I found I was to be attacked in it in so unprepared a state by so powerful an army and artillery, nothing but the hopes...its defence ; for I would either have endeavoured to escape to New York by rapid marches from the Gloucester side, immediately on the arrival of General... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart, John Gould Curtis - Literary Criticism - 1898 - 684 pages
...very favourable light, but when I found I was to be attacked in it in so unprepared a state, by so powerful an army and artillery, nothing but the hopes...its defence, for I would either have endeavoured to escape to New York by rapid marches from the Gloucester side, immediately on the arrival of General... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1901 - 692 pages
...very favourable light, but when I found I was to be attacked in it in so unprepared a state, by so powerful an army and artillery, nothing but the hopes...its defence, for I would either have endeavoured to escape to New York by rapid marches from the Gloucester side, immediately on the arrival of General... | |
 | Education - 2002 - 366 pages
...very favourable light, but when I found I was to be attacked in it in so unprepared a state, by so powerful an army and artillery, nothing but the hopes...its defence; for I would either have endeavoured to escape to NewYork . . . immediately on the arrival of General Washington's troops at Williamsburgh,... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 680 pages
...very favourable light, but when I found I was to be attacked in it in so unprepared a state, by so powerful an army and artillery, nothing but the hopes...its defence, for I would either have endeavoured to escape to New York by rapid marches from the Gloucester side, immediately on the arrival of General... | |
 | James J. Kirschke - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 412 pages
...post in a favorable light. But, when I found I was to be attacked in it in so unprepared a state by so powerful an army and artillery, nothing but the hopes of relief would have induced me to attempt its defense." Cornwallis claimed that his relief had been promised by Clinton's letters, and this claim... | |
 | Donald T Phillips - Fiction - 2006 - 412 pages
...favorable light," he wrote. "But when I found I was to be attacked in so unprepared a state, by so powerful an army and artillery, nothing but the hopes of relief would have induced me to attempt its relief." Cornwallis explained that, upon General Washington's initial arrival from Williamsburg, he... | |
 | Art - 1806 - 722 pages
...very favourable light: but when I found I w¿s to be artackeci in it in fo unprepared a ftate, by l~o powerful an army and artillery, nothing but the hopes...would have induced me to attempt' its defence; for I wouln either have attempted to cfcape to New York by rapiil marches from the Gloucefter fide, immediately... | |
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I never saw this post in a very favourable light, but when I found I was to be attacked in it in so unprepared a state, by so powerful an army and artillery, nothing but the hopes of relief would have induced me to attempt... 
