 | Charles Janeway Stillé - Generals - 1893 - 482 pages
...battalion retreating. By this time General Howe had come up, and seeing the battalion retreating, all broken, he got into a passion, and exclaimed, ' For...Infantry, I never saw you retreat before, form ! form ! it is only a scouting party.' However he was quickly convinced that it was more than a scouting party... | |
 | Charles Janeway Stillé - Generals - 1893 - 486 pages
...General Howe had come up, and seeing the battalion retreating, all broken, he got into a passion, 8 and exclaimed, ' For shame, Light Infantry, I never saw you retreat before, form ! form ! it is only a scouting party." However he was quickly convinced that it was more than a scouting party... | |
 | Samuel Adams Drake - Armed Forces - 1895 - 316 pages
...retreating. By this time General Howe had come up ; and seeing the battalion retreating all broken, he flew into a passion and exclaimed, ' For shame, Light Infantry...saw you retreat before ; form ! form ! it's only a scouting-party !' " However, he was quickly convinced it was more than a scouting-party, as the heads... | |
 | Albert Lee - 1911 - 512 pages
...force of the enemy, however, caused the line to give way, until Howe, galloping up, cried to them : " For shame, Light Infantry ! I never saw you retreat before. Form! Form! It is only a scouting party!" The fog, however, lifted, and Howe, with a storm of grape rattling about... | |
 | Walter Harold Wilkin - United States - 1914 - 300 pages
...Light Infantry falling back. Thinking that the enemy were not as yet in any strength, he cried out : " For shame, Light Infantry! I never saw you retreat before. Form! Form ! It is only a scouting party !" Just then the mist rolled aside and disclosed the enemy, who opened... | |
 | Christopher Hibbert - History - 2002 - 420 pages
...to obey our orders. By this time General Howe had come up, and seeing the battalion retreating, all broken, he got into a passion and exclaimed 'For shame,...the heads of the enemy's columns soon appeared. One, with three pieces of cannon in their front, immediately fired at the crowd that was standing with General... | |
 | Thomas J. McGuire - History - 2006 - 422 pages
...General Howe had come up," Hunter witnessed, "and seeing the battalion all broke, he got into a great passion and exclaimed, 'For shame, Light Infantry! I never saw you retreat before. Form! Form! It is only a scouting party.'" Howe was shocked to see his favorite troops running away, though the... | |
 | Alan Axelrod - History - 2007 - 398 pages
...had retreated from the Americans." He wrote that General Howe had ridden up personally, exclaiming, "For shame, Light Infantry! I never saw you retreat before. Form! Form! lt's only a scouting party." This map shows the battles of Freeman's Farm and Bemis Heights during... | |
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Biggenstown, when they met our battalion retreating. By this time General Howe had come up, and seeing the battalion retreating, all broken, he got into a passion and exclaimed —"For shame, light infantry! I never saw you retreat before; form! form!... 