Our French Allies: Rochambeau and His Army, Lafayette and His Devotion, D'Estaing, De Ternay, Barras, De Grasse, and Their Fleets, in the Great War of the American Revolution, from 1778 to 1782, Including Military Operations in Rhode Island, the Surrender of Yorktown, Sketches of French and American Officers, and Incidents of Social Life in Newport, Providence, and Elsewhere ; with Numerous IllustrationsProvidence Press Company, 1884 - 632 páginas |
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Abraham Whipple Admiral De Ternay allies American appeared appointed arms Arnold arrived artillery Assembly August Baron battle born Boston brigade Bristol British camp Captain Chevalier Colonel command committee Comte Congress Cornwallis corps Count D'Estaing Count de Rochambeau D'Estaing daughter Deux-Ponts died encampment enemy enemy's Esek Hopkins Excellency expedition Ferry France French army French fleet French officers frigate Governor Greene guests guns Henry Hill honor hospital hundred idem Jabez Bowen John King Lafayette land Lauzun letter Lieutenant Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Cornwallis Major Major-General Marquis Marquis de Lafayette married Marshal of France military militia monument Nathanael Greene Newport North October Olney patriotic pont President Providence quarters received redoubt regiment Rhode Island sail says sent ships siege siege of Yorktown Soissonnois soldiers Solomon Drowne street Sullivan Ternay Thomas tion Tiverton took town Trumbull United Vernon vessels Viomesnil Virginia Washington William wounded York Yorktown
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Página 140 - My career will soon be over, therefore justice and truth prompt me to declare my last sentiments. You are in my eyes the great and good man. May you long enjoy the love, veneration, and esteem of these States, -whose liberties you have asserted by your virtues.
Página 540 - For the North and South alike there is but one remedy. All the constitutional power of the nation and of the States, and all the volunteer forces of the people, should be summoned to meet this danger by the saving influence of universal education.
Página 465 - ... respectively belong, is inadmissible. Instead of this, they will be marched to such parts of the country as can most conveniently provide for their subsistence; and the benevolent treatment of prisoners, which is invariably observed by the Americans, will be extended to them.
Página 522 - O PRAISE the Lord, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people. For his merciful kindness is great toward us : and the truth of the Lord endureth for ever. Praise ye the Lord.
Página 280 - Let me hope, Sir, that if aught in my character impresses you with esteem towards me, if aught in my misfortunes marks me as the victim of policy and not of resentment, I shall experience the operation of these feelings in your breast, by being informed that I am not to die on a gibbet.
Página 443 - I have the honor to command, that the British shall be sent to Britain, and the Germans to Germany, under engagement not to serve against France, America, or their allies, until released or regularly exchanged.
Página 292 - A wife! Well, my dear Marquis, I can hardly refrain from smiling to find you are caught at last I saw, by the eulogium you often made on the happiness of domestic life in America, that you had swallowed the bait, and that you would as surely be taken, one day or another, as that you were a philosopher and a soldier. So your day has at length come. I am glad of it, with all my heart and soul. It is quite good enough for you. Now...
Página 177 - The hand of Providence has been so conspicuous in all this, that he must be worse than an infidel that lacks faith, and more than wicked, that has not gratitude enough to acknowledge his obligations.
Página 280 - Sympathy towards a soldier will surely induce your Excellency and a military tribunal to adapt the mode of my death to the feelings of a man of honor.
Página 280 - ... he displayed. He betrayed no want of fortitude, but retained a complacent smile on his countenance, and politely bowed to several gentlemen whom he knew, which was respectfully returned. It was his earnest desire to be shot, as being the mode of death most conformable to the feelings of a military man, and he had indulged the hope that his request would be granted. At the moment, therefore, when suddenly he came in view of the gallows, he involuntarily started backward, and made a pause.