...shadowy hope that it might all prove a delusion. ' These rebels have accomplished,' he exclaimed, ' more in one night than my whole army would have done in a month.' And what a position ! commanding both the harbor and the town. Startled and confounded, the British general...

...and that loomed with so threatening an aspect in the haze of early dawn. " The rebels have done more in one night than my whole army would have done in a month," is said to have been General Howe's remark. " It must have been the employment of at least twelve thousand...

...Howe, overwhelmed with astonishment, exclaimed, " I know not what I shall do. The rebels have done more adopt the most effectual measures in their power to render They had done more than merely raise embankments ; cannons were placed upon them, and they now completely...

...astonishment, as it loomed indistinctly, but grandly, through a morning fog. " The rebels," exclaimed he, " have done more work in one night, than my whole army would have done in one month." Washington had watched, with intense anxiety, the effect of the revelation at daybreak....

...Gen. Howe, when he saw the forts, exclaimed, " I know not what I shall do. The rebels have done more in one night than my whole army would have done in a month." " It must have been the employment of at least twelve thousand men," he wrote to Lord Dartmouth. It...

...heights covered with works which commanded the town and harbor of Boston. " The rebels have done more in one night than my whole army would have done in a month." " They were raised with an expedition equal to that of the genii belonging to Aladdin's Wonderful Lamp."...

...said to have exclaimed almost despairingly, " I know not what I shall do. The rebels have done more in one night than my whole army would have done in a month." It was indeed a moment of great peril with the British. They were surrounded on all sides but one,...

...employment of at least twelve thousand men.' He is also reported to have said, " The rebels have done more in one night than my whole army would have done in a month." Dorchester Neck, in its topographical appearance, was very uneven, abounding in hills and valleys.*...

...with no little vexation at his own remissness, " I know not what I shall do. The rebels have done more in one night than my whole army would have done in a month." But it is not our purpose to write a history of the Revolution. We must go back now to a still earlier...

...was astounded and chagrined. " I know not what I shall do," he exclaimed, " the rebels have done more in one night than my whole army would have done in a mouth." The tables were indeed turned, the British army in the city and the fleet in the bay were in...