 | 1841 - 566 Seiten
...escaped unhurt. By the all-powerful dispensations of Providence," said he in a letter to his brother, «' I have been protected beyond all human probability...through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet 1 escaped unhurt although death u as levelling my companions on every side of me." Out of eighty -six... | |
 | John George Cochrane - 1841 - 514 Seiten
...escaped unhurt. " By the all-powerful dispensations of Providence," said he in a letter to his brother, " I have been protected beyond all human probability...through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet I escaped unhurt although death was levelling my companions on every side of me." Out of eighty-six... | |
 | James Wimer - 1841 - 788 Seiten
...killed in the field, where died many other brave officers. I luckily escaped without a wound, though I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me. Captains Orme and Morris, two of the aids-de-camp, were wounded early in the engagement, which rendered... | |
 | Sherman Day - 1843 - 754 Seiten
...killed in the field, where died many other brave officers. I luckily escaped without a wound, though I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me. Capts. Orme and Morris, two of the aids-de-camp, were wounded early in the engagement, which rendered... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1845 - 616 Seiten
...frontier warfare." — Day's Penn. lions of Providence,' said he, in a letter to hie brother, ' I hare been protected beyond all human probability or expectation,...through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet I escaped unhurt, although death was levelling my companions on every sido of me.'* So bloody a contest... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1845 - 562 Seiten
...in frontier warfare." — Day's Penn. tionp of Providence,' said he, in a letter to his brother, ' I have been protected beyond all human probability...four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot uiider me, yet I escaped unhurt, although death was levelling my companions on every side of me.'*... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1845 - 596 Seiten
...in frontier warfare." — Day's Penn. tiona of Providence," said he, in a letter to his brother, ' I have been protected beyond all human probability...expectation, for I had .four bullets through my coat, and two hones shot under me, yet I escaped unhurt, although death was levelling my companions on every side... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1845 - 900 Seiten
...after the battle, " I have been protecte beyond all human probability or expectations ; for I had fou bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under...unhurt, although death was levelling my companions o every side of me." The failure of this expedition was the subject of universal convei sation for... | |
 | John Fanning Watson - 1846 - 440 Seiten
...that " he has not been killed, as has been before reported in a circumstantial account." He adds — " by the all-powerful dispensations of Providence, I...protected beyond all human probability or expectation, while death was levelling my companions on every side." Such remarkable perils, and such acknowledgments... | |
 | George Washington - 1847 - 720 Seiten
...killed in the field, where died many other brave officers. I luckily escaped without a wound, though I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me. Captains Orme and Morris, two of the aids-de-camp, were wounded early in the engagement, which rendered... | |
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I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt, though death was levelling my companions on every side... 
