 It would have been a less painful circumstance to me to have heard, that, in consequence of your non-compliance with their request, they had burned my house and laid the plantation in ruins.  George Washington - Seite 291von Henry Cabot Lodge - 1889Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Benson John Lossing - 1881 - 830 Seiten
...to furnish a supply of provisions, lu a letter to his manager Washington reproved him for the act. "It would have been a less painful circumstance to me to have heard that, in consequence of your sels, carry them refreshment«, commune with a parcel of scoundrels, and request a favor by asking... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant, Sydney Howard Gay - 1882 - 740 Seiten
...have gone on board the vessels of the enemy and furnished them with refreshments. It would have been n less painful circumstance to me to have heard, that in consequence of your non-compliunce with their request, they had burnt my home and laid the plantation in ruins." Lafayette... | |
 | James Walter - 1886 - 412 Seiten
...carry them refreshments, and " commune with a parcel of plundering scoundrels," as he termed them. " It would have been a less painful circumstance to me to have heard," writes he, " that in consequence of your non-compliance with their request they had burnt my house... | |
 | James Walter - 1887 - 418 Seiten
...carry them refreshments, and " commune with a parcel of plundering scoundrels," as he termed them. "It would have been a less painful circumstance to me to have heard," writes he, " that in consequence of your non-compliance with their request they had burnt my house... | |
 | James Walter - 1887 - 420 Seiten
...carry them refreshments, and " commune with a parcel of plundering scoundrels," as he termed them. " tt would have been a less painful circumstance to me to have heard," writes he, " that in consequence of your non-compliance with their request they had burnt my house... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant, Sydney Howard Gay - 1892 - 814 Seiten
...is, that you should have gone on board the vessels of the enemy and furnished them with refreshments. It would have been a less painful circumstance to me to have heard, that in consequence of your non-compliiince with their request, they had burnt my home and laid the plantation in ruins." Lafayette... | |
 | William M. Thayer - 1890 - 520 Seiten
...most concern is, that you should go on board the enemy's vessels, and furnish them with refreshments. It would have been a less painful circumstance to...burnt my house and laid the plantation in ruins." In July, 1781, Washington planned an attack upon New York by the combined French and American forces.... | |
 | George Washington - 1891 - 542 Seiten
...most concern is, that you should go on board the enemy's vessels, and furnish them with refreshments. It would have been a less painful circumstance to...communicating with the enemy, and making a voluntary offer of re1 General Washington commenced a Diary on the 1st of May, to which he prefixed the following remarks.... | |
 | William Spohn Baker - 1892 - 444 Seiten
...most concern is, that you should go on board the enemy's vessels, and furnish them with refreshments. It would have been a less painful circumstance to...communicating with the enemy, and making a voluntary oifer of refreshments to them with a view to prevent a conflagration." — Washington to Lund Washington.... | |
 | Elizabeth Bryant Johnston - 1895 - 268 Seiten
...most concern, is, that you should go on board the enemies vessels, and furnish them with refreshments. It would have been a less painful circumstance to me to have heard, that in consequence of your non compliance to their request they had burnt the house and laid the plantation in ruins." 1789 In... | |
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