 | William Elsey Connelley, Ellis Merton Coulter - 1922 - 676 sider
...to certainty, the Kentucky re-enforcements, 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." 2 In an address he bitterly arraigned them... | |
 | James Barnett Adair - 1924 - 412 sider
...to certainty, the Kentucky re-inforcements, in whom so much reliance had been placed, IXGLORIOUSLY FLED, drawing after them by their example the remainder of the forces, and thus yielding to the enemy that formidable position. "The batteries which had rendered me, for many... | |
 | Andrew Jackson - 1927 - 496 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... | |
 | Henry Adams - 1986 - 1458 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 many... | |
 | Carl Edward Skeen - 250 sider
...Jackson described the events on the right bank and stated, "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."43 A court of inquiry mosdy exonerated the... | |
 | Walter R. Borneman - 2004 - 384 sider
...Kentucky reinforcements, in whom so much reliance had been placed," Jackson later reported, "ingloriously fled — drawing after them, by their example, the remainder of the forces."" Thornton quickly occupied Morgan's deserted position and, not knowing that his commander was dead,... | |
 | Charles Jared Ingersoll - 1852 - 422 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... | |
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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... 
