| United States. Congress - 1825 - 782 páginas
...the 16th February, 1778, while the army lay at Valley Forge, communicated to Congress as follows: " For some days past, there has been little less than a famine in camp. Naked and starving as they are, we cap.not enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity... | |
| Timothy Pitkin - 1828 - 552 páginas
...alarming than you will probably conceive, for to form a just idea, it were necessary to be on the 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 or four days.... | |
| George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1834 - 594 páginas
...than you will probably conceive ; for, to form a just idea of it, it were necessary to be on the 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 or four days.... | |
| George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1834 - 600 páginas
...than you will probably conceive ; for, to form a just idea of it, it were necessary to be on the 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 or four days.... | |
| George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1834 - 590 páginas
...than you will probably conceive ; for, to form a just idea of it, it were necessary to be on the 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 or four days.... | |
| George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1834 - 588 páginas
...than you will probably conceive; for, to form a just idea of it, it were necessary to be on the 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 or four days.... | |
| Jared Sparks - 1839 - 666 páginas
...Washington wrote ; " For some days there has been little less than a famine in camp. A part of the army have been a week without any kind of flesh, and the rest three or four days. NaCHAPTER ked and starving as they are, we cannot enough admire "• the incomparable patience and... | |
| George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1839 - 592 páginas
...than you will probably conceive ; for, to form a just idea of it, it were necessary to be on the 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 land of flesh, and the rest three or four days.... | |
| Samuel George Arnold - 1840 - 238 páginas
...liberty were pastdescription. " Forsome days," says Washington in one of his letters to congress, " there has been little less than a famine in the camp. A part of the army have been a week without any kind of flesh provisions, and the rest three or four days. Naked and starving... | |
| Guizot (M., François) - 1840 - 210 páginas
...writes Washington, in 1777, "there has been little less than a famine in camp. A part of the army have been a week without any kind of flesh, and the rest three or four days. The soldiers are naked and starving." "We find gentlemen reprobating the measure of going into winter... | |
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