 | John Frost - 1845 - 480 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... | |
 | Charles Jared Ingersoll - 1852 - 418 sider
...approaching to certainty, the Kentucky reinforcements, on 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." In an eloquent address to the soldiers on... | |
 | John William Cole - 1856 - 390 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. The batteries, which had rendered me, for... | |
 | 1857 - 298 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 yielded to the enemy that most fortunate position. The batteries which had rendered me, for many... | |
 | Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington - 1863 - 764 sider
...approaching to certainty, the Kentucky reinforcements, on 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 moat formidable position. The batteries which for many days had rendered... | |
 | James Parton - 1860 - 690 sider
...was looked for with a confidence approaching to certainty, the Kentucky reinforcements ingloriously fled, drawing after them, by their example, the remainder of the forces, and thus yielding to the enemy that most fortunate position. The batteries which had rendered me for many... | |
 | Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington - 1863 - 768 sider
...certainty, the Kentucky reinforcements, on whom so much reliance had been placed, ingloriously lied, drawing after them, by their example, the remainder of the forces, and thus yielding to the enemy that most formidable position. The batteries which for many days had rendered... | |
 | Charles Gayarré - 1866 - 706 sider
...amounting 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." Whatever was the guilt of the Kentuckians,... | |
 | Zachariah Frederick Smith - 1886 - 884 sider
...induced General Jackson to report to the war department that "the Kentucky re-enforcement ingloriously fled, drawing after them, by their example, the remainder of the forces," and the commodore, in his report to the navy department, stigmatized them in terms ! still more offensive.... | |
 | Henry Adams - 1890 - 454 sider
...was looked for with a confidence approaching to certainty, the Kentucky reinforcements 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 had rendered me for... | |
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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... 
