 | 1828 - 486 sider
...approaching to certainty, the Kentucky reinforcements, in whom so much reliance had been placed, ingloriously fled, drawing after them, by their example, the remainder of the forces, and thus yielding to the enemy the most fortunate position. — The batteries, which had rendered me, for... | |
 | William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1828 - 882 sider
...approaching to certainty, the Kentucky reinforcements, iu whom so much reliance had been placed, ingloriously fled, drawing after them, by their example, the remainder of the forces ; and thus yielding to the enemy that most formidable position. The batteries, which bad rendered me for... | |
 | 1828 - 598 sider
...approaching to certainty, the Kentucky reinforcements, in whom so much reliance had been placed, ingloriously fled, drawing after them, by their example, the remainder of the forces ; and thus yielding to the enemy that most formidable position.' On being recalled from this position, in... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 608 sider
...approaching to certainty, the Kentucky reinforcements, in whom so much reliance had been placed, ingloriously fled, drawing after them, by their example, the remainder of the forces ; and thus yielding to the enemy that most formidable position.' On being recalled from this position, in... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 626 sider
...approaching to certainty, the Kentucky reinforcements, in whom s6 much reliance had been placed, ingloriously fled, drawing after them, by their example, the remainder of the forces ; and thus yielding to the enemy that most formidable posi' ' On being recalled from this position, in the... | |
 | 1829 - 560 sider
...to certainty, the Kentucky reinforcements, upon whom so much reliance had been placed, ingloriously fled, drawing after them, by their example, the remainder of the forces, and thus yielding to the enemy the most formidable position.' No men admit more readily than the English,... | |
 | 1831 - 338 sider
...approaching to certainty, the Kentucky reinforcements, in whom so much reliance had been placedj ingloriously fled, drawing after them by their example, the remainder of the forces ; and thus yielded to the enemy that most fortunate position. The batteries which had rendered me, for many... | |
 | R. Thomas (A.M.) - 1834 - 798 sider
...however, cut to pieces, they fled in confusion from the field, leaving it covered with their dead and wounded." Simultaneously with the attack on General...reinforcements fled, drawing after them, by their exarrple, the remainder of the forces, and leaving the batteries to the enemy; not, however, until... | |
 | R. Thomas (A.M.) - 1843 - 606 sider
...however, cut to pieces, they fled in confusion from the field, leaving it covered with their dead and wounded." Simultaneously with the attack on General...example, the remainder of the forces, and leaving the batteries to the enemy ; not, however, until after the guns were spiked. While General Jackson was... | |
 | John Frost - 1845 - 474 sider
...moment when their entire discomfiture was looked for with confidence, the Kentucky militia ingloriously fled, drawing after them, by their example, the remainder of the forces. Commodore Patterson, who commanded the batteries, was of course forced to abandon them, after spiking... | |
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Morgan, and, what is strange and difficult to account for, at the very moment when their entire discomfiture was looked for with a confidence approaching to certainty, the Kentucky reinforcements, in whom so much reliance had been placed, ingloriously... 
