 | Theodore Roosevelt - 1882 - 354 pages
...further energies of the [British] troops became unavailing. The [American] block-house and stockade could not be carried by assault nor reduced by field-pieces,...provided with them; the fire of the gunboats proved insufficient to attain that end; light and adverse winds continued, and our larger vessels were still... | |
 | Theodore Roosevelt - 1882 - 352 pages
...further energies of the [British] troops became unavailing. The [American] block-house and stockade could not be carried by assault nor reduced by field-pieces,...provided with them; the fire of the gunboats proved insufficient to attain that end; light and adverse winds continued, and our larger vessels were still... | |
 | Theodore Roosevelt - New Orleans, Battle of, New Orleans, La., 1815 - 1882 - 360 pages
...further energies of the [British] troops became unavailing. The [American] block-house and stockade could not be carried by assault nor reduced by field-pieces,...provided with them ; the fire of the gunboats proved insuff1cient to attain that end ; light and adverse winds continued, and our larger vessels were still... | |
 | Theodore Roosevelt - History - 1882 - 606 pages
...further energies of the [British] troops became unavailing. The [American] block-house and stockade could not be carried by assault nor reduced by field-pieces, had we been provide d with them ; the fire of the gun-boats proved insufficient to attain that end ; light and... | |
 | Henry Adams - United States - 1890 - 456 pages
...said Baynes,1 " the further energies of the troops became unavailing. Their [American] block-houses and stockaded battery could not be carried by assault,...reduced by field-pieces had we been provided with them. . . . Seeing no object within our reach to attain that could compensate for the loss we were momentarily... | |
 | Henry Adams - United States - 1891 - 456 pages
...said Baynes,1 " the further energies of the troops became unavailing. Their [American] block-houses and stockaded battery could not be carried by assault,...reduced by field-pieces had we been provided with them. . . . Seeing no object within our reach to attain that could compensate for the loss we were momentarily... | |
 | Theodore Roosevelt - 1902 - 458 pages
...further energies of the [British] troops became unavailing. The [American] block-house and stockade could not be carried by assault nor reduced by field-pieces,...provided with them; the fire of the gunboats proved insufficient to attain that end; light and adverse winds continued, and our larger vessels were still... | |
 | Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas - History - 1906 - 306 pages
...himself, but by Colonel Baynes, and which was thought to have been written to order, was that the ' blockhouse and stockaded battery could not be carried by assault, nor reduced by field pieces, had we been provided with them'. There was also a suggestion in American accounts that... | |
 | Canada - 1923 - 574 pages
...spirit and promptness that many of the Enemy fell within their enclosed Barracks, which were set on fire by our Troops — at this point the further energies of the Troops became unavailing — their Block House and Stockaded Battery, could not be carried by assault — nor reduced by Field Pieces... | |
 | Henry Adams - History - 1986 - 1458 pages
...said Baynes,2 "the further energies of the troops became unavailing. Their [American] block-houses and stockaded battery could not be carried by assault,...reduced by field-pieces had we been provided with them. . . . Seeing no object within our reach to attain that could compensate for the loss we were momentarily... | |
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At this point the further energies of. the troops became unavailing. Their block-house and stockaded battery could not be carried by assault, nor reduced by fieldpieces, had we been provided with them — the fire of the gunboats proved inefficient to... 
