| Elisha Benjamin Andrews - 1909 - 632 페이지
...for the Delaware, but held himself ready to countermarch. "Genl Howe's in a manner abandoning General Burgoyne is so unaccountable a matter that, till I am fully assured it is so, I cannot help casting my Eyes continually behind me," he wrote July 30 to Gates. On the same... | |
| Fanny E. Coe - 1914 - 396 페이지
...move for Howe was to the northward. So they were much puzzled when he went south toward Philadelphia. Washington wrote, "Howe's in a manner abandoning Burgoyne...unaccountable a matter that, till I am fully assured of it, / cannot help casting my eyes continually behind me." By the battles of Brandywine and Germantown,... | |
| John Fiske - 1919 - 712 페이지
...and kept everything in readiness for an instant counter-march. In a letter of July 3oth he writes, " Howe's in a manner abandoning Burgoyne is so unaccountable...cannot help casting my eyes continually behind me." Next day, learning that 320 THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION CHAP, vn the fleet had arrived at the Capes of... | |
| Hoffman Nickerson - 1928 - 590 페이지
...from Peekskill. On July 30 he was writing, 'Howe's . . . abandoning Burgoyne is so unaccountable . . . that, till I am fully assured of it, I cannot help casting my eyes continually behind me.' Next day word came that the British fleet was in Delaware Bay. It had taken Howe's Armada a week to... | |
| Benson John Lossing - 1870 - 900 페이지
...so that aid to the Highland forts might be speedily rendered, if necessary; for, he said, " General Howe's in a manner abandoning Burgoyne is so unaccountable a matter, that, till I am fully assured it is so, I can not help casting my eyes continually behind me." He added: *Aa I shall pay no regard... | |
| Samuel B. Griffith - 2002 - 780 페이지
...eastern Pennsylvania and western New Jersey without a fight. Before he took up the march to the south, he wrote: "Howe's in a manner abandoning Burgoyne is...it, I cannot help casting my eyes continually behind me."24 relieve Schuyler in command of the Northern Department. William Williams wrote the governor... | |
| J. F. C. Fuller - 2007 - 436 페이지
...Howe was probably going to the Delaware, and adds : "General Howe's in a manner abandoning General Burgoyne is so unaccountable a matter, that, till I am fully assured it is so, I cannot help casting my Eyes occasionally behind me," and the next day he informed Trumbull... | |
| John Fiske - 1891 - 394 페이지
...and kept everything in readiness for an instant countermarch. In a letter of July 30th he writes, " Howe's in a manner abandoning Burgoyne is so unaccountable a matter that, till I am fully assured of it, / cannot help casting my eyes continually behind me." Next day, learning that the fleet had arrived... | |
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