 General, and, at the same time, as a further proof of the inability of an army under the circumstances of this, to perform the common duties of soldiers (besides a number of men confined to hospitals for want of shoes, and others in farmers' houses on...  Works - Página 50por Washington Irving - 1857Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | William Gordon - 1801 - 478 páginas
...thisday, no Jes» tliatt 2898 men in camp unfit for duty, because they are. bareibot and otherwise naked. Our whole strength in continental troops (including the eastern brigades, which have joined 'i;» since the surrender of Burgoyne) exclusive of the Maryland! troops sent to Wilmington, is no... | |
 | William Gordon - 1801 - 478 páginas
...commissary-general charges gcat part of his deficiency. We have by a field return thisday, no Jes» than 2398 men in camp u-nfit for duty, because they are. barefoot and otherwise naked. Our whole strength in continental troops- (including the eastern brigades, which have joined 'us srnee... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1807 - 576 páginas
...of men confined to hospitals for want of shoes, and others in farmers' houses on the same account) we have, by a field return this day made, no less than two thousand eight hundred and ninety, eight men, now in camp, unfit for duty, because they are barefoot, and otherwise naked. By... | |
 | 1832 - 564 páginas
...number of men confined to hospitals for want of shoes, and others in farmers' houseson the same account, no less than two thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight .men, now in camp, unlit for duty, because they are bare-foot, and otherwise naked. By the same return, it appears that... | |
 | 1846 - 602 páginas
...of bad weather would prove their destruction ; that out of his whole force of 1 1,000 men, 2893 are in camp unfit for duty, because they are barefoot and otherwise naked, besides a number confined in the hospitals for want of shoes, and others in the farmhouses on the same... | |
 | 1846 - 674 páginas
...bad weather would prove their destruction ; that out of ' his whole force of 11,000 men, '2898 are in camp unfit for ' duty, because they are barefoot and otherwise naked, besides a ' number confined in the hospitals for want of shoes, and others ' in the farmhouses on the... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1846 - 610 páginas
...of bad weather would prove their destruction ; that out of his whole force of 1 1,000 men, 2898 are in camp unfit for duty, because they are barefoot and otherwise naked, besides a number confined in the hospitals for want of shoes, and others in the farmhouses on the same... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1847 - 474 páginas
...of men confined to hospitals for want of shoes, and others in farmers' houses on the same account) we have, by a field return this day made, no less...thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight men, now in camp,un-' fit for duty, because they are barefoot, and otherwise naked. By the same return, it appears,... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1848 - 472 páginas
...of men confined to hospitals for want of shoes, and others in farmers' houses on the same account) we have, by a field return this day made, no less...(including the eastern brigades which have joined us pince the surrender of General Burgoyne) exclusive of the Maryland troops sent to Wilmington, amounts... | |
 | 1852 - 548 páginas
...hospitals for want of shoes, and others in farmers' houses on the same account), we have, by a field-return this day made, no less than two thousand eight hundred...duty, because they are barefoot and otherwise naked." In another letter, at a somewhat later date, addressed to the same authority, he speaks of the marches... | |
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