...redoubts had been carried by atorm ; that his situation WHS very critical ; "the safety of the placo is therefore so precarious, that I cannot recommend that the fleet and army should run great risk in endeavouring to save us." On the 19th, Cornwallis was forced to give up the posts of York and Gloucester,...

...shall soon be exposed to an assault in ruining works, in a bad position, and with weakened numbers. The safety of the place is, therefore, so precarious...cannot recommend that the fleet and army should run any great risk in endeavoring to save us." It would have been quite contrary to the custom of a besieged...

...batteries, and I expect that their new ones will open to-morrow morning." He added the magnanimous words. " I cannot recommend that the fleet and army should run great risk in endeavoring to save us ; " — words that show that his lordship was a soldier and a gentleman. Before daybreak on the 1 6th...

...capture of them reduced Lord Cornwallis almost 1 Lafayette to Washington. Cor. of the Rev. iii 436 to despair. "Writing that same day to Sir Henry Clinton,...about the 5th of October, they might have arrived ill time to save his lordship ; but at the date of the above letter they were still lingering in port....

...works could not resist powerful artillery ; and, his numbers being weakened, he concludes by saying, " the safety of the place is therefore so precarious,...should run great risk in endeavoring to save us." The catastrophe was close at hand. On the 2Oth of October, Cornwallis wrote to inform Clinton that,...

..."My situation now becomes very critical. We dare not show a gun to their old batteries, and I expect their new ones will open to-morrow morning. . . ....should run great risk in endeavoring to save us." On the night of their capture, the redoubts were included in the second parallel; after the fall of...

..."My situation now becomes very critical. We dare not show a gun to their old batteries, and I expect their new ones will open to-morrow morning. . . ....should run great risk in endeavoring to save us." On the night of their capture, the redoubts were included in the second parallel; after the fall of...

...we shall soon be exposed to an assault in ruined works in a bad position and with weakened numbers. The safety of the place is therefore so precarious...recommend that the fleet and army should run great risque in endeavoring to save us." " Manuscript of Dupetit-Thouars, 78. Dumouriez ; then, under the...

...Stevens, id,, vol. ii, pp. 205-216. assault in ruined works, in a bad position, and with weakened numbers. The safety of the place is therefore so precarious,...recommend that the fleet and army should run great risque in endeavoring to save us." (BF Stevens, id., vol. ii, p. 188.) Clinton received this letter...

...Stevens, id., vol. ii, pp. 205-216. assault in ruined works, in a bad position, and with weakened number* The safety of the place is therefore so precarious, that I cannot recos: mend that the fleet and army should run great risque in endeavoring i? save us." (BF Stevens,...