The Life of Major-General James Wolfe: Founded on Original Documents and Illustrated by His Correspondence, Including Numerous Unpublished Letters Contributed from the Family Papers of Noblemen and Gentlemen, Descendants of His CompanionsChapman and Hall, 1864 - 626 sider |
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Side 34
... expect a letter from you , if it does not come by my captain , this great while . I have often lain upon straw , and should oftener had not I known some French , which I find very useful ; though I was the other day obliged to speak ...
... expect a letter from you , if it does not come by my captain , this great while . I have often lain upon straw , and should oftener had not I known some French , which I find very useful ; though I was the other day obliged to speak ...
Side 36
... expect to hear from you till we have beaten the French , and return to Flanders , which time is very uncertain . We are now within a day's march of the French army , which it is reported we shall soon engage , but there is no credit to ...
... expect to hear from you till we have beaten the French , and return to Flanders , which time is very uncertain . We are now within a day's march of the French army , which it is reported we shall soon engage , but there is no credit to ...
Side 53
... expect to be drunk with hogs- heads of Maine - water , and with odes to his Majesty and the Duke , and Te Deums . . . . We are all mad — drums , trumpets , bumpers , bonfires ! The mob are wild , and cry , " Long live King George , and ...
... expect to be drunk with hogs- heads of Maine - water , and with odes to his Majesty and the Duke , and Te Deums . . . . We are all mad — drums , trumpets , bumpers , bonfires ! The mob are wild , and cry , " Long live King George , and ...
Side 57
... expecting we were coming towards them , were under arms a quarter of an hour after we left our ground . I have a list of our army , which I would willingly send you , but Major Rainsford gave it me , and desired I would be cautious of ...
... expecting we were coming towards them , were under arms a quarter of an hour after we left our ground . I have a list of our army , which I would willingly send you , but Major Rainsford gave it me , and desired I would be cautious of ...
Side 65
... expect every hour to be ordered into the field , and replaced by a weak battalion . Our army is encamped at Ath , and I'm afraid will make but an indifferent defensive figure the rest of the campaign . I shall write to - day to Major ...
... expect every hour to be ordered into the field , and replaced by a weak battalion . Our army is encamped at Ath , and I'm afraid will make but an indifferent defensive figure the rest of the campaign . I shall write to - day to Major ...
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Side 575 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike th
Side 232 - I was particularly attentive to the choice of my words, to the harmony and roundness of my periods, to my elocution, to my action. This succeeded, and ever will succeed : they thought I informed, because I pleased them ; and many of them said, that I had made the whole very clear to them, when, God knows, I had not even attempted it.
Side 565 - I am so far recovered as to do business ; but my constitution is entirely ruined, without the consolation of having done any considerable service to the state, or without any prospect of it.
Side 549 - I am sensible of my own errors in the course of the campaign, see clearly wherein I have been deficient, and think a little more or less blame to a man that must necessarily be ruined, of little or no consequence. I take the blame of that unlucky day entirely upon my own shoulders, and I expect to suffer for it.
Side 572 - Levi; and the troops will land where the French seem least to expect it. The first body that gets on shore is to march directly to the enemy and drive them from any little post they may occupy; the officers must be careful that the succeeding bodies do not by any mistake fire on those who go before them.
Side 539 - ... of the second royal American battalion, got first on shore. The grenadiers were ordered to form themselves into four distinct bodies, and to begin the attack, supported by brigadier Monckton's corps, as soon as the troops had passed the ford, and were at hand to assist. But whether from the noise and hurry at landing, or from some other cause, the grenadiers, instead of forming themselves as they were directed, ran on impetuously, towards the enemy's...
Side 547 - I found myself so ill, and am still so weak, that I begged the general officers to consult together for the public utility.
Side 232 - I was to bring in this bill, which was necessarily composed of law jargon and astronomical calculations, to both which I am an utter stranger. However, it was absolutely necessary to make the House of Lords think that I knew something of the matter, and also to make them believe that they knew something of it themselves, which they do not. For my own part, I could just as soon have talked Celtic or Sclavonian to them as astronomy, and they would...
Side 397 - ... that in war something must be allowed to chance and fortune, seeing it is in its nature hazardous, and an option of difficulties ; that the greatness of an object should come under consideration, opposed to the impediments that lie in the way...
Side 572 - The officers and men will remember what their country expects from them, and what a determined body of soldiers, inured to war, is capable of doing against five weak French battalions, mingled with a disorderly peasantry.
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