The Romance of the Revolution: Being True Stories of the Adventures, Romantic Incidents, Hairbreath Escapes, and Heroic Exploits of the Days of '76 ...Porter & Coates, 1870 - 444 страници |
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Страница 240 - We comforted her, by telling her that the wound was only slight, and, at the same time, advised her to go> over to her husband, to do which, she would certainly obtain permission, and then she could attend him herself. She was a charming woman, and very fond of him.
Страница 45 - As I was within that distance at which, in the quickest firing, I could have lodged half a dozen balls in or about him, before he was out of my reach, I had only to determine ; but it was not pleasant to fire at the back of an unoffending individual, who was acquitting himself very coolly of his duty; so I let him alone.
Страница 355 - ... to meet at a distant point in a given time. The pursuit was continued the greater part of the night, after the Indians had done the mischief. In the morning the party found themselves on the trail of the Indians, which led to the river. When arrived within a little distance of the river, Adam Poe, fearing an ambuscade, left the party, who followed directly on the trail, to creep along the brink of the river bank, under cover of the woods and bushes, to fall on the rear of the Indians, should...
Страница 239 - I asked them where they were going, they cried out, war ! war ! meaning that they were going to battle. This filled me with apprehension, and I had scarcely got home before I heard reports of cannon and musketry, which grew louder by degrees, till at last the noise became excessive. About four o'clock in the afternoon, instead of the guests whom I expected, General Frazer was brought on a litter mortally wounded.
Страница 239 - He was asked if he had any request to make, to which he replied, that ' If General Burgoyne would permit it, he should like to be buried at six o'clock in the evening on the top of a mountain, in a redoubt which had been built there.
Страница 382 - M'Koy having obtained permission to speak to Colonel Browne, addressed him in words to the following effect : ' Colonel Browne — in the late day of your prosperity, I visited your camp, and on my knees supplicated for the life of my son ; but you were deaf to my entreaties. You hanged him, though a beardless youth, before my face ! These eyes have seen him scalped by the savages under your immediate command, and for no better reason than that his name was M'Koy.
Страница 247 - ... they all greeted us, and even showed compassion in their countenances, at the sight of a woman with small children. I was, I confess, afraid to go over to the enemy, as it was quite a new situation to me. When I drew near the tents, a handsome man approached and met me, took my children from the calash, and hugged and kissed them, which affected me almost to tears. " You tremble," said he, addressing himself to me,
Страница 404 - The guard apprehensive of treachery, and punctilious to his orders, threatened to fire into the boat if it stirred before day-light. Her anxiety and sufferings were thus protracted, through seven or eight dark and cold hours; and her reflections upon that first reception could not give her very encouraging ideas of the treatment she was afterwards to expect. But it is due to justice...
Страница 161 - Lee. His uniform, worn out when he assumed it, was now hanging in rags about him, and he had not been shaved for a fortnight; he wished, very naturally, to improve his appearance before presenting himself before the Secretary of War; but the orders were peremptory to bring him as he was. The general loved a joke full well; his laughter was hardly exceeded by the report of his own cannon , and long and loud did he laugh that day. When...
Страница 43 - Away, my dear colonel, and bring up the troops ; the day is our own !' " Capture of British Baggage-wagons.