 | Elisha Benjamin Andrews - United States - 1909 - 632 pages
...24 had left Sandy Hook, he set out for the Delaware, but held himself ready to countermarch. "Genl Howe's in a manner abandoning General Burgoyne is...cannot help casting my Eyes continually behind me," he wrote July 30 to Gates. On the same day, Burgoyne wrote to Lord Germain : " I have spared no pains... | |
 | Alfred Thayer Mahan - Anglo-French War, 1778-1783 - 1913 - 382 pages
...general purpose of the British ministry. Accordingly Washington wrote, "Howe's in a manner abandoning Burgoyne is so unaccountable a matter, that till I am fully assured of it, I cannot help casting my eyes continually behind me." He suspected an intention to return upon... | |
 | Fanny E. Coe - United States - 1914 - 396 pages
...much puzzled when he went south toward Philadelphia. Washington wrote, "Howe's in a manner abandoning Burgoyne is so unaccountable a matter that, till I am fully assured of it, / cannot help casting my eyes continually behind me." By the battles of Brandywine and Germantown,... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1870 - 900 pages
...forts might be speedily rendered, if necessary; for, he said, " General Howe's in a manner abandoning Burgoyne is so unaccountable a matter, that, till I am fully assured it is so, I can not help casting my eyes continually behind me." He added: *Aa I shall pay no regard to any flying... | |
 | Samuel B. Griffith - History - 2002 - 780 pages
...without a fight. Before he took up the march to the south, he wrote: "Howe's in a manner abandoning Burgoyne is so unaccountable a matter that till I am fully assured of it, I cannot help casting my eyes continually behind me."24 relieve Schuyler in command of the Northern... | |
 | Washington Irving - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 417 pages
...the Highlands may not be left too much exposed, I have ordered General Sullivan's division to halt at Morristown, whence it will march southward if there...the enemy should be throwing any force up the North Hirer. General Howe's in a manner abandoning General Burgoyne, is so unaccountable a matter, that,... | |
 | J. F. C. Fuller - History - 2007 - 436 pages
...destination." ** On the 30th he informed General Gates that Howe was probably going to the Delaware, and adds : "General Howe's in a manner abandoning General Burgoyne...fully assured it is so, I cannot help casting my Eyes occasionally behind me," and the next day he informed Trumbull that Congress had notified him that... | |
 | John Fiske - History - 1891 - 394 pages
...readiness for an instant countermarch. In a letter of July 30th he writes, " Howe's in a manner abandoning Burgoyne is so unaccountable a matter that, till I am fully assured of it, / cannot help casting my eyes continually behind me." Next day, learning that the fleet had... | |
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General Howe's in a manner abandoning General Burgoyne, is so unaccountable a matter, that, till I am fully assured it is so, / cannot help casting my eyes continually behind me. 
