The Army Correspondence of Colonel John Laurens in the Years 1777-8

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Bradford Club, 1867 - United States - 250 pages
 

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Page 40 - O what a noble mind is here o'erthrown ! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword ; The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form...
Page 102 - Sir, a letter which I received last night, contained the following paragraph in a letter from General Conway to General Gates : he says, — ' Heaven has been determined to save your country, or a weak general and bad counsellors would have ruined it.
Page 65 - The officers will be admitted on parole and will be treated with the liberality customary in such cases, so long as they, by proper behaviour, continue to deserve it; but those who are apprehended having broke their parole, as some British officers have done, must expect to be close confined.
Page 8 - America seventy years ago ; was printer to the government upwards of fifty years, and was a man of great sobriety and industry; a real friend to the poor and needy, and kind and affable to all. His temperance was exceedingly conspicuous ; and he was almost a stranger to sickness all his life. He had left off business several years past, and being quite worn out with old age and labor, his lamp of life went out for want of oil.
Page 115 - He is convinced, that the numerous tribes of blacks in the southern parts of the continent, offer a resource to us that should not be neglected.
Page 66 - This article is inadmissible in every extremity ; sooner than this army will consent to ground their arms in their encampment, they will rush on the enemy, determined to take no quarter.
Page 146 - Steuben is making a sensible progress with our soldiers. The officers seem to have a high opinion of him, and discover a docility from which we may augur the most happy effects. It would enchant you to see the enlivened scene of our Campus Martius. If Mr. Howe opens the campaign with his usual deliberation, and our recruits or draughts come in tolerably well, we shall be infinitely better prepared to meet him, than ever we have been.
Page 65 - ... tents and baggage taken or destroyed, their retreat cut off, and their camp invested, they can only be allowed to surrender as prisoners of war.
Page 66 - There being no officer in this army under, or capable of being under the description of breaking parole, this article needs no answer.
Page 108 - I would advance those who are unjustly deprived of the rights of mankind to a state which would be a proper gradation between abject slavery and perfect liberty, and besides I would reinforce the defenders of liberty with a number of gallant soldiers.

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