 | Edmund Burke - History - 1823 - 854 pages
...the field, it is unnecessary in me to assure your excellency that but one sentiment animated every breast, that of discharging to the utmost of their...British soldiers had driven before them for three hours, through a country abounding in strong positions of defence, but not offering. a single spot... | |
 | Brenton, E. B - Canada - 1823 - 318 pages
...the field, it is unnecessary in me to assure your Excellency that but one sentiment animated every breast — that of discharging to the utmost of their...one sentiment of regret and mortification prevailed, in being obliged to quit a beaten enemy, whom a small band of British soldiers had driven before them... | |
 | Brenton, E. B - Canada - 1823 - 310 pages
...their duty to their King and country ; but one sentiment of regret and mortification prevailed, in being obliged to quit a beaten enemy, whom a small...British soldiers had driven before them for three hours, through a country abounding in strong positions of defence, but not offering a single spot of... | |
 | Canada - 1853 - 696 pages
...the field, it is unnecessary for me to assure your Excellency, that but one sentiment animated every breast, that of discharging to the utmost of their...quit a beaten enemy, whom a small band of British •oldiers had driven before them for three hours through a country abounding in strong positions of... | |
 | Canada - 1853 - 694 pages
...to his assistance, and even one passaga of Col. Bayne's letter would go to establish the same fact " But one sentiment of regret and mortification prevailed,...obliged to quit a beaten enemy, whom a small band had driven before them for three hours." unavailing. Their block-house and stockaded battery could... | |
 | Gilbert Auchinleck - Canada History War of 1812 - 1855 - 456 pages
...the field, it is unnecessary for me to assure your Excelleney, that but one sentiment animated every breast, that of discharging to the utmost of their...prevailed, on being obliged to quit a beaten enemy, whom a email band of British soldiers had driven before them for three hours through a country abounding in... | |
 | William Kingsford - Canada - 1895 - 650 pages
...The force advanced unopposed to within * Baynes' despatch reads as if a victory had been gained. " But one sentiment of regret and mortification prevailed,...British soldiers had driven before them for three hours, through a country abounding in strong positions of defence, but not offering a single spot of... | |
 | Lundy's Lane Historical Society - Niagara Frontier (N.Y.) - 1902 - 342 pages
...the field, it is unnecessary in me to assure Your Excellency that but one sentiment animated every breast, that of discharging to the utmost of their...sentiment of regret and mortification prevailed on 277 v being obliged to quit a beaten enemy, whom a small band of British soldiers had driven before... | |
 | Canada - 1923 - 574 pages
...Field — it is unnecessary in me to assure your Excellency, that but one sentiment animated every breast, that of discharging to the utmost of their...British Soldiers had driven before them for Three Hours, through a Country abounding in strong positions of defence, but not offering a single spot of... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1813 - 774 pages
...the field, it is unnecessary in me to assure your Excellency that but one sentiment animated every breast, that of discharging to the utmost of their...British soldiers had driven before them for three hours, through a country abounding in strong positions of defence, but not offering a single spot of... | |
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... me to assure your excellency that but one sentiment animated every breast, that of discharging to the utmost of their power their duty to their king and country : but one sentiment of regret and mortification prevailed, on being obliged to quit... 
