 | English literature - 1813 - 1008 pages
...Seeing no object within our reach to obtain, that could compensate fur the losa we were momentarily sustaining from the heavy fire of the enemy's cannon, I directed the troops to take up a position on the crest of the hill we had charged from. From this position we were ordered to re-embark,... | |
 | 1813 - 750 pages
...Seeing no object within our reach to attain, that could compensate for the loss we were momentarily sustaining from the heavy fire of the enemy's cannon,...charged from. From this position we were ordered to re-embark, which was performed at our leisure, and in perfect order, the enemy not presuming to shew... | |
 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1813 - 442 pages
...Seeing no object within our reach to attain, that could compensate for the loss we were momentarily sustaining from the heavy fire of the enemy's cannon,...charged from. From this position we were ordered to re-embark, which was performed at our leisure, and in perfect order, the enemy not presuming to show... | |
 | Benjamin Flower - 1813 - 438 pages
...compensate for trie loss we were momentarily sustaining from the heavy fire of the enemy's cannon, 1 directed the troops to take up the position on the crest of the htll we had charged from.— From this position we were ordered to re-embark, which was performed at... | |
 | Thomas H. Palmer - United States - 1814 - 548 pages
...fort. Seeing no object within our reach to attain that could compensate for the loss we were momently sustaining from the heavy fire of the enemy's cannon,...charged from. From this position we were ordered to re-embark, which was performed at our leisure, the enemy not presuming to show a single soldier without... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1814 - 830 pages
...Seeing no object within our reach to attain that could compensate for the loss we were momentarily sustaining from the heavy fire of the enemy's cannon, I directed the troops to take up the position on (he crest of the hill we had charged from. From this position we were ordered to re-itnbark, which... | |
 | English poetry - 1814 - 1112 pages
...Seeing no object within our reach to attain that could compensate for the loss we were momentarily sustaining from the heavy fire of the enemy's cannon, I directed the troops to take up the position en the crest of the iiill we had chargect^from. From this position we were ordered to re-embark, which... | |
 | Europe - 1815 - 772 pages
...Seeing no object within our reach to attain that could aompensate for the loss we were momentarily sustaining from the heavy fire of the enemy's cannon,...charged from. From this position we were ordered to re-embark, which was performed at our leisure, and in perfect order, the enemy not presuming to shew... | |
 | Walter Scott - Europe - 1815 - 770 pages
...Seeing no object within our reach to attain that could compensate for the loss we were momentarily sustaining from the heavy fire of the enemy's cannon,...the crest of the hill •we had charged from. From thie position we were ordered to re-embark, which was performed at our leisure, and in perfect order,... | |
 | William James - Ontario - 1818 - 520 pages
...Seeing no object within our reach to attain, that could compensate for the loss we were momentarily sustaining from the heavy fire of the enemy's cannon,...charged from. From this position we were ordered to re-embark, which was performed at our leisure, and in perfect order, the enemy not presuming to shew... | |
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He had set fire to the storehouses in the vicinity of the fort. Seeing no object within our reach to attain, that could compensate for the loss we were momentarily sustaining from the heavy fire of the enemy's cannon, I directed the troops to take up... 
