 | Walter Colton - 1850 - 480 strani
...marched upon the town he would find it the grave of his men. " Then," said the commodore, "tell the general to have the bells ready to toll in the morning...o'clock, as I shall be there at that time." He was there ; but Castro, in the mean time, had broken up his camp, mounted with an armed band, and fled towards... | |
 | Walter Colton - 1852 - 512 strani
...marched upon the town he would find it the grave of his men. " Then," said the commodore, " tell the general to have the bells ready to toll in the morning...o'clock, as I shall be there at that time." He was there ; but Castro, in the mean time, had broken up his camp, mounted with an armed band, and fled towards... | |
 | Frank Soulé, John H. Gihon, Jim Nisbet - 1855 - 860 strani
...marched upon the town he would find it the grave of his men.' ' Then,' said the commodore, ' tell the general to have the bells ready to toll in the morning...o'clock, as I shall be there at that time.' He was there ; but Castro in the mean time had broken up his camp, mounted with an armed band and fled." Stockton,... | |
 | Samuel John Bayard, Robert Field Stockton - 1856 - 366 strani
...which to meet his enemy, and, anxious to keep a position where access to the open plains would afford him the facilities for escape, he intrenched himself...bold and confident deportment of their adversary, and they shrunk from conflict with a foe apparently so desperate and daring, who would neither parley... | |
 | Samuel John Bayard - 1856 - 358 strani
...which to meet his enemy, and, anxious to keep a position where access to the open plains would afford him the facilities for escape, he intrenched himself...at that time."* He was there at that time ; but the Culifornian general of couriers and despatches was unwilling to risk a battle. Both he and his troops... | |
 | Walter Colton - 1860 - 476 strani
...marched upon the town he would find it the grave of his men. " Then," said the commodore, " tell the general to have the bells ready to toll in the morning...o'clock, as I shall be there at that time." He was there; but Castro, in the mean time, had broken up his camp, mounted with an armed band, and fled towards... | |
 | 1889 - 712 strani
...if he marched upon the town he would find it the grave of his men." " Then," said the commodore, " tell your general to have the bells ready to toll...eight o'clock, as I shall be there at that time." Commodore Stockton, with his usual punctuality,—especially when fighting was on hand,—was there... | |
 | Edgar Stanton Maclay - 1894 - 734 strani
...marched upon the town he would find it the grave of his men." The American commander replied : " Then tell your general to have the bells ready to toll in the morning at eight o'clock. I shall be there at that time." Stockton was as good as his word, and on the 13th of August he met... | |
 | Society of California Pioneers - 1894 - 60 strani
...been sent to warn him against entering Los Angeles with his forces, " Have the bells ready to toll at eight o'clock, as I shall be there at that time." He says, that this and other preceding statements " may very safely be designated as falsehoods, pure... | |
 | Edgar Stanton Maclay - 1898 - 706 strani
...marched upon the town he would find it the grave of his men." The American commander replied: "Then tell your general to have the bells ready to toll in the morning at eight o'clock. I shall be there at that time." Stockton was as good as his word, and on the 13th of August he met... | |
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that if he marched upon the town he would find it the grave of his men." "Then," said he, "tell your general to have the bells ready to toll in the morning at eight o'clock, as I shall be there at that time... 
