| Samuel Colcord Bartlett - 1894 - 530 페이지
...in total ignorance of the situation or intentions of General Howe," Washington was writing thus, " Howe's in a manner abandoning Burgoyne is so unaccountable...cannot help casting my eyes continually behind me." Why it was remained a standing puzzle in America and Great Britain. But Charles Lee knew why. When... | |
| Elizabeth Bryant Johnston - 1895 - 268 페이지
...fleet entering Delaware Bay. To General Gates he wrote : " General Howe 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 Byes continually behind me." 1779 At West Point, Washington, in... | |
| Sons of the Revolution. Pennsylvania Society - 1896 - 72 페이지
...to General Gates, then in Philadelphia, as follows : " 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 continually behind me." On the following day, however, July... | |
| Sir William Laird Clowes, Sir Clements Robert Markham, Alfred Thayer Mahan, Herbert Wrigley Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, Leonard George Carr Laughton - 1898 - 668 페이지
...Howe 's in a manner abandoning Burgoyne is so unaccountable a matter," wrote the American general, "that till I am fully assured of it, I cannot help...July, just as Burgoyne reached Fort Edward, where lie stuck fast for six weeks, Howe's armament was off the Capes of the Delaware. The prevailing summer... | |
| John Fiske - 1902 - 456 페이지
...and kept everything in readiness for an instant counter-march. In a letter of July 30 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... | |
| Washington Irving - 1905 - 660 페이지
...enemy should be throwing any force up the North River. 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 continually behind me. As I shall pay no regard to any flying... | |
| Sydney George Fisher - 1908 - 644 페이지
...general to allow Tory Burgoyne and 7 Walpole, " Journal of Reign of George III," vol. ii, p. 132. • " Howe's in a manner abandoning Burgoyne is so unaccountable...cannot help casting my eyes continually behind me." — Writings of Washington, Ford edition, vol. v, p. 520. 72 the Tory Ministry to make a great stroke... | |
| Sydney George Fisher - 1908 - 634 페이지
...general to allow Tory Burgoyne and 'Walpole, "Journal of Reign of George in," vol. ii, p. 132. 8 " Howe's in a manner abandoning Burgoyne is so unaccountable...it I cannot help casting my eyes continually behind me."—Writings of Washington, Ford edition, vol. v, p. 520. the Tory Ministry to make a great stroke... | |
| Sydney George Fisher - 1908 - 644 페이지
...Walpole, " Journal of Reign of George III," vol. ii, p. 132. " " Howe's in a manner abandoning Burgoyne IB so unaccountable a matter that till I am fully assured of it I cannot help casting mv eyes continually behind me." — Writings of Washington, Ford edition, vol. v, p. 520. A GROUNDLESS... | |
| Elroy McKendree Avery - 1909 - 648 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... | |
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