 | Henry Lee - 1812 - 444 páginas
...lordship, following up the blow, compelled the intrepid Marylanders to abandon the unequal contest. To the woods and swamps, after performing their duty...keenness, and none were saved but those who penetrated the swamps which had been deemed impassable. The road was heaped with the dead and wounded. Arms, artillery,... | |
 | Henry Lee - 1827 - 480 páginas
...lordship, following up the blow, compelled the intrepid Marylanders to abandon the unequal contest. To the woods and swamps, after performing their duty...impassable. The road was heaped with the dead and wounded. Arms, artillery, horses and baggage, were strewed in every direction ; and the whole adjacent... | |
 | William Huffington - 1839 - 500 páginas
...Marylanders to abandon the unequal contest. To the woods and swamps, after performing their duty valliantly, these gallant soldiers were compelled to fly. The...keenness, and none were saved but those who penetrated the swamps which had been deemed impassable. The road was heaped with the dead and wounded. Arms, artillery,... | |
 | James McSherry - 1849 - 432 páginas
...numbering eight hundred men,* * It had been reduced by detachmenti made before the battle — Burkejs His. of Va., 4th vol. p. 400. opposed to more than...a body of one hundred men, still maintaining their ranks unbroken, through the swamp, where the cavalry could not pursue them, while Col. Howard effected... | |
 | James McSherry - 1849 - 432 páginas
...hundred men,* • 1t had been reduced by detachments made before the battle. — Burke'i His. of Vs., 4th vol. p. 400. opposed to more than two thousand...a body of one hundred men, still maintaining their ranks unbroken, through the swamp, where the cavalry could not pursue them, while Col. Howard effected... | |
 | James McSherry - 1849 - 428 páginas
...two devoted brigades, who still maintained their ground, although only numbering eight hundred men,* opposed to more than two thousand British regulars,...a body of one hundred men, still maintaining their ranks unbroken, through the swamp, where the cavalry could not pursue them, while Col. Howard effected... | |
 | Cecil B. Hartley - 1859 - 378 páginas
...lordship, following up the blow, compelled the intrepid Marylanders to abandon the unequal contest. To the woods and swamps, after performing their duty...keenness, and none were saved but those who penetrated the swamps which had been deemed impassable. The road was heaped with the dead and wounded. Arms, artillery,... | |
 | James McSherry - 1904 - 454 páginas
...sabred by the dragoons, without space to rally, the ranks of brave troops were broken, and they were driven from the field by successive charges. "To the...and dying. Arms, artillery, horses and baggage were strewn in every direction." Brigadier General Gist moved off with a body of one hundred men, still... | |
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Buysson, his heroic aide-de-camp, who threw himself upon his fallen leader, and received in his own body the bayonets aimed at his friend. Intermingled with the infantry, and trampled under foot and sabred by the dragoons, without space to rally — the... 