 I have been here with less than one half of that number, including sick, furloughed, and on command ; and those neither armed nor clothed as they should be. In short, my situation has been such, that I have been obliged to use art to conceal it from my...  The Works of Washington Irving ... - Page 178by Washington Irving - 1861Full view - About this book
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1834 - 578 pages
...men well armed, I have been here with less than one half of that number, including sick, furloughed, and on command, and those neither armed nor clothed,...obliged to use art to conceal it from my own officers. The party sent to Bunker's Hill had some good and some bad men engaged in it. One or two courts have... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1834 - 580 pages
...men well armed, I have been here with less than one half of that number, including sick, furloughed, and on command, and those neither armed nor clothed,...obliged to use art to conceal it from my own officers. The party sent to Bunker's Hill had some good and some bad men engaged in it. One or two courts have... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1837 - 650 pages
...thousand men well armed, I have been here with less than half that number, including sick, furloughed, and on command, and those neither armed nor clothed...obliged to use art to conceal it from my own officers." As a contrast to this representation, proving the buoyancy of his mind and his determined spirit under... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1837 - 658 pages
...thousand men well armed, I have been here with less than half that number, including sick, furloughed, and on command, and those neither armed nor clothed...obliged to use art to conceal it from my own officers." As a contrast to this representation, proving the buoyancy of his mind and his determined spirit under... | |
 | George Washington - United States - 1837 - 644 pages
...thousand men well armed, I have been here with less than half that number, including sick, furloughed, and on command, and those neither armed nor clothed...obliged to use art to conceal it from my own officers." As a contrast to this representation, proving the buoyancy of his mind and his determined spirit under... | |
 | Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1839 - 666 pages
...thousand men well armed, I have been here with less than half that number, including sick, furloughed, and on command, and those neither armed nor clothed...obliged to use art to conceal it from my own officers." As a contrast to this representation, proving the buoyancy of his mind and his determined spirit under... | |
 | Thaddeus Allen - United States - 1847 - 574 pages
...men well armed, I have been here with less than one half of that number, including sick, furloughed, and on command, and those neither armed nor clothed...obliged to use art to conceal it from my own officers. * • • » • 'But why will not Congress forward part of the powder made in your Province ? They... | |
 | William Bradford Reed - United States - 1847 - 460 pages
...and on command ; and those neither armed nor clothed as they should be. In short, my situation hus been such that I have been obliged to use art to conceal it from my own officers. The Congress, as you observe, expect, I believe, that I should do more \\' than others, — for whilst... | |
 | William Bradford Reed - United States - 1847 - 466 pages
...20,000 men, well armed, &c., I have been here with less than one-half of it, including sick, furloughed, and on command; and those neither armed nor clothed as they should be. In short, my situation bus been such that 1 have been obliged to use art to conceal it from my own officers. The Congress,... | |
 | Maria Campbell, James Freeman Clarke - History - 1848 - 508 pages
...thousand men, well armed, I have been here with less than half that number, including sick, furloughed, and on command ; and those neither armed nor clothed...obliged to use art to conceal it from my own officers."* A resolution had been passed in Congress which Washington viewed as an expression of their wishes,... | |
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