 | George Washington - 1795 - 404 sider
...contradictory, notwithftanding all my pains to get the beft. This prevented me making a difpofition adequate to the force with which the enemy attacked us on our right ; in confequence of which, the- troops firft engaged were obliged to retire before they could be reinforced.... | |
 | George Washington - 1795 - 400 sider
...contradictory, notwithftanding all my pains to get the beft. This prevented me making a.difpofition adequate to the force with which the enemy attacked us on our right ; in confequence of which, the troops firft engaged were obliged to retire before they could be reinforced.... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1834 - 590 sider
...the intelligence received, of the enemy's advancing up the Brandywine and crossing at a ford about six miles above us, was uncertain and contradictory,...be reinforced. In the midst of the attack * On the llth of September, Colonel Harrison, the Secretary of General Washington, wrote as follows to the President... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1834 - 594 sider
...the intelligence received, of the enemy's advancing up the Brandywine and crossing at a ford about six miles above us, was uncertain and contradictory,...be reinforced. In the midst of the attack * On the llth of September, Colonel Harrison, the Secretary of General Washington, wrote as follows to the President... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1834 - 600 sider
...intelligence received, of the enemy's advancing up the Brandywine and crosseju ,iu , • mg at a ford about six miles above us, was uncertain , ,. . , ,. „...contradictory, notwithstanding all my pains to get mi • jei, Jthe best. This prevented me from making a disposition adequate to the force with which... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1834 - 588 sider
...the intelligence received, of the enemy's advancing up the Brandy wine and crossing at a ford about six miles above us, was uncertain and contradictory,...be reinforced. In the midst of the attack * On the llth of September, Colonel Harrison, the Secretary of General Washington, wrote as follows to the President... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1839 - 592 sider
...the intelligence received, of the enemy's advancing up the Brandywine and crossing at a ford about six miles above us, was uncertain and contradictory,...be reinforced. In the midst of the attack * On the llth of September, Colonel Harrison, the Secretary of General Washington, wrote as follows to the President... | |
 | Historical Society of Pennsylvania - 1845 - 376 sider
...the intelligence received of the enemy's advancing up the Brandywine and crossing at a ford, about six miles above us, was uncertain and contradictory,...adequate to the force with which the enemy attacked on the right; in consequence of which, the troops first engaged, were obliged to retire before they... | |
 | Jared Sparks - 1848 - 466 sider
...Unfortunately, the intelligence received of the enemy advancing up the Brandywine, and crossing at a ford about six miles above us, was uncertain and contradictory, notwithstanding all my pains to get the best." If General Sullivan were in fault, because he did not anticipate the approach of the enemy by the circuitous... | |
 | George Washington - 1855 - 588 sider
...the intelligence received, of the enemy's advancing up the Brandywine and crossing at a ford about six miles above us, was uncertain and contradictory,...enemy attacked us on our right; in consequence of which5 the troops first engaged were obliged to retire before they could be reinforced. In the midst... | |
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I am sorry to inform you, that, in this day's engagement, we have been obliged to leave the enemy masters of the field. Unfortunately, the intelligence received, of the enemy's advancing up the Brandywine and crossing at a ford about six miles above us,... 
