 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1834 - 574 pages
...all-powerful dispensations of Providence, I have been protected beyond all human probability or expectation ; for I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt, although death was levelling my companions on every side of me ! We have been most... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1834 - 574 pages
...killed in the field, where died many other brave officers. I luckily escaped without a wound, though I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me. Captains Orme and Morris, two of the aids-de-camp, were wounded early in the engagement, which rendered... | |
 | George Washington - United States - 1834 - 574 pages
...killed in the field, where died many other brave officers. I luckily escaped without a wound, though I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me. Captains Orme and Morris, two of the aids-de-camp, were wounded early in the engagement, which rendered... | |
 | Edward Charles M'Guire - 1836 - 428 pages
...probability, or expectation ; for I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt, although death was levelling my companions on every side of me." Was there not, indeed, in that marvellous preservation, a most signal proof given of the particular... | |
 | George Washington - United States - 1837 - 644 pages
...he, in a letter to his brother, "I have been protected beyond all human probability or expectation; for I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses...was levelling my companions on every side of me." So bloody a contest has rarely been witnessed. The number of officers in the engagement wjas eighty-six,... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1837 - 658 pages
...he, in a letter to his brother, "I have been protected beyond all human probability or expectation ; for I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses...was levelling my companions on every side of me." So bloody a contest has rarely been witnessed. The number of officers in the engagement was eighty-six,... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1837 - 654 pages
...he, in a letter to his brother, "I have been protected beyond all human probability or expectation ; for I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses...was levelling my companions on every side of me." So bloody a contest has rarely been witnessed. The number of officers in the engagement was eighty-six,... | |
 | Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1839 - 666 pages
...he, in a letter to his brother, " I have been protected beyond all human probability or expectation ; for I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses...was levelling my companions on every side of me." So bloody a contest has rarely been witnessed. The number of officers in the engagement was eighty-six,... | |
 | 1839 - 648 pages
...he, in a letter to his brother, ' I have been protected beyond all human probability or expectation ; for I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses...was levelling my companions on every side of me.' So bloody a contest has rarely been witnessed. The number of officers in the engagement was eighty-six,... | |
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I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt, although death was levelling my companions on every side of me... 
