Correspondence of Charles, First Marquis Cornwallis, 1권J. Murray, 1859 |
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affairs afterwards American appointed April army arrived attack believe Calcutta Camden Cape Fear River Captain cavalry Charles Charlestown Chesapeak Colonel command Company's conduct CORNWALLIS TO LIEUT.-COLONEL CORNWALLIS TO LORD CORNWALLIS TO SIR corps Court of Directors DEAR LORD DEAR ROSS despatch detachment Duke EARL CORNWALLIS endeavour enemy England favour force France French friends give Government Governor HENRY DUNDAS honour hope India infantry July June King King's letter LIEUT.-COLONEL ROSS Lieut.-Colonel Tarleton Lieut.-General Lord Cornwallis Lord Cornwallis's LORD GEORGE GERMAIN Lord Rawdon Lord Shelburne Lordship Loyalists Madras Majesty Majesty's Major Major-General Marattas March ment military militia Minister Nabob North Carolina officers opinion Peshwa Pitt present Prince province Rajah rebels received regiment River Sept SIR HENRY CLINTON Sir James Harris Sumpter taken tion Tippoo Travancore treaty troops William wish wounded Wynnesborough York
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91 페이지 - Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw: Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite...
244 페이지 - Under all these circumstances, I thought it would have been wanton and inhuman to the last degree to sacrifice the lives of this small body of gallant soldiers, who had ever behaved with so much fidelity and courage, by exposing them to an assault, which from the numbers and precautions of the enemy could not fail to succeed.
278 페이지 - I am sorry to be obliged to say, that agriculture and internal commerce have, for many years, been gradually declining, and that at present, excepting the class of shroffs and banyans, who reside almost entirely in great towns, the inhabitants of these provinces were advancing hastily to a general state of poverty and wretchedness...
46 페이지 - I cannot help expressing my wishes that the Chesapeake may become the seat of war, even (if necessary) at the expense of abandoning New York.
255 페이지 - I think it must be universally admitted that without a large and well-regulated body of Europeans, our hold of these valuable dominions must be very insecure. It cannot be expected that even the best of treatment would constantly conciliate the willing obedience of so vast a body of people, differing from ourselves in almost every circumstance of laws, religion, and customs...
248 페이지 - The soldiers to be kept in Virginia, Maryland, or Pennsylvania, and as much by regiments as possible, and supplied with the same rations of provisions as are allowed to soldiers in the service of America.
243 페이지 - ... whole parallel and batteries appeared to be nearly complete. At this time we knew that there was no part of the whole front attacked, on which we could show a single gun, and our shells were nearly expended ; I therefore had only to chuse between preparing to surrender next day, or endeavouring to get off with the greatest part of the troops, and I determined to attempt the latter...
91 페이지 - But I can assure you, upon my honour, that I neither asked for it nor wished for it. The reasonable object of ambition to a man is to have his name transmitted to posterity for eminent services rendered to his country and to mankind. Nobody asks or cares whether Hampden, Marlborough, Pelham, or Wolfe were Knights of the Garter.
61 페이지 - I have ventured these last two days to look General Washington's whole force in the face in the position on the outside of my works, and have the pleasure to assure your Excellency, that there is but one wish throughout the army, which is that the enemy would advance...
286 페이지 - Government, I am also convinced that, failing the claim of right of the zemindars, it would be necessary for the public good to grant a right of property in the soil to them, or to persons of other descriptions.