 For some days past, there has been little less than a famine in camp. A part of the army has been a week without any kind of flesh, and the rest three or four days. Naked and starving as they are, we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and...  Miscellanies - Page 30by Charles Bradlaugh - 1899 - 226 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - United States - 1898 - 546 pages
...February 16, 1778, ' there has been little less than a famine in the camp ; a part of the army has been a week without any kind of flesh, and the rest three...cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and lidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been ere this excited by their sufferings to a general... | |
 | Edward Channing - United States - 1898 - 682 pages
...little less than a famine in camp. A part of the army has been a week without any kind of flesh. . . . Naked and starving as they are, we cannot enough admire...incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery." At one time, no fewer than two thousand eight hundred men were unfit for duty for want of shoes or... | |
 | George Otto Trevelyan - United States - 1907 - 524 pages
...months. As late as the sixteenth February 1778, according to Washington, "a part of the army had been a week without any kind of flesh, and the rest three or four days." Evening after evening the cry of " No Meat ! No Meat ! " could be heard along the line of huts. Some... | |
 | New York (State). Governor - 1900 - 964 pages
...spot. For some days past, there has been little less than a famine in camp. A part of the army has been a week without any kind of flesh, and the rest three...incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been ere this excited by their suffering to a general Mutiny and dispersion. Strong... | |
 | New York (State). Governor (1777-1795 : Clinton) - New York (State) - 1900 - 968 pages
...spot. For some days past, there has been little less than a famine in camp. A part of the army has been a week without any kind of flesh, and the rest three...incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been ere this excited by their suffering to a general Mutiny and dispersion. Strong... | |
 | Worthington Chauncey Ford - Presidents - 1900 - 378 pages
...provisions. On February i6th little less than a famine prevailed in the camp. "A part of the army has been a week without any kind of flesh, and the rest three or four days." Great as had been the patience and fidelity of the soldiers, there were symptoms of discontent requiring... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1901 - 650 pages
...little less than a famine in the camp," writes Washington, on one occasion. "A part of the army has been a week without any kind of flesh, and the rest three...incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been, ere this, excited by their suffering to a general mutiny and desertion." The... | |
 | William Augustus Mowry, Arthur May Mowry - United States - 1903 - 232 pages
...February Washington wrote: " There is little less than a famine in camp. A part of the army has been a -week without any kind of flesh, and the rest three...admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiers, that they have not been before this time excited by their sufferings to a general mutiny.... | |
 | Military art and science - 1903 - 718 pages
..."For some days past there has been little less than a famine in the camp. A part of the army has been a week without any kind of flesh, and the rest three...admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiers that they have not been ere this excited by their sufferings to a general mutiny and dispersion."... | |
 | Frank Hamilton Taylor - Valley Forge (Pa.) - 1905 - 130 pages
...Clinton: "For some days past there has been little less than a famine in camp. A part of the army has been a week without any kind of flesh, and the rest three or four davs. Naked and starved as 44 MAJOR GEN. NATHANIEL GREENE HOME oi: ABIJAH STBVENS HEAD1JI;ARTERS OF... | |
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