The Boston Tea Party, and Other Stories of the American Revolution, Relating Many Daring Deeds of the Old HeroesLee and Shepard, 1889 - 222 strani |
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Stran 207 - Tarleton with his numerous army flushed with success — and that he retreated as long as he could — till his men complained — and he could go no further. Drawing up his army in three lines, on the hill side ; contemplating the scene — in the distance the glitter of the advancing enemy — he trembled for the fate of the day. Going to the woods in the rear, he kneeled in an old tree-top, and poured out a prayer to God for his army, and for himself, and for his country. With relieved spirits...
Stran 94 - While the moss of the valley grew red with their blood, They stirr'd not, but conquer'd and died ! The sun that now blesses our arms with his light, Saw them fall upon Ossory's plain ! Oh let him not blush, when he leaves us to-night, To find that they fell there in vain ! ERIN ! THE TEAR AND THE SMILE IN THINE EYES.
Stran 21 - Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! To be free is to live, to be slaves is to fall; Has the land such a dastard, as scorns not a lord, Who dreads not a fetter much more than a sword. In freedom we're born...
Stran 179 - Minden, advanced in column directly on the rail fence ; when within eighty or an hundred yards, deployed into line, with the precision and firmness of troops on parade, and opened a brisk but regular fire by platoons, which was returned by a well-directed, rapid, and fatal discharge from our whole line. " The action soon became general, and very heavy from right to left. In the...
Stran 19 - Come swallow your bumpers, ye Tories, and roar, That the Sons of fair Freedom are hamper'd once more ; But know that no Cut-throats our spirits can tame, Nor a host of Oppressors shall smother the flame.
Stran 203 - The general received it as he was dressing in the morning, and immediately sent one of his aids to the jail. That officer could not believe his eyes when he saw Captain Lee. His uniform, worn out when he assumed it, was now hanging in rags about him, and he had not been shaved for a fortnight ; he wished, very naturally, to improve his appearance before presenting himself before the Secretary of War ; but the orders were peremptory to bring him as he was. The general loved a joke full well ; his...
Stran 176 - The movements of the British troops, indicating an attack, were soon discovered; in consequence of which orders were immediately issued for the march of a considerable part of our army to reinforce the detachment at the redoubts on Breed's Hill; but such was the imperfect state of discipline, the want of knowledge in military science, and the deficiency of the materials of war, that the movement of the troops was extremely irregular and devoid of every thing like concert — each regiment advancing...
Stran 198 - ... was, in the prospect of soon being a ghost himself, he could not avoid laughing at the expedition with which old and young fled from the fancied apparitions under clouds of night, wishing to meet such enemies, like Ajax, in the face of day. Though the distance to the Delaware was not great, they had now been twelve days on the road, and such was the vigilance and suspicion prevailing throughout the country, that they almost despaired of effecting their object. The conductor grew impatient ; and...
Stran 205 - thunderbolt of war," this " brave Morgan, who never knew fear," was, in camp, often wicked and very profane, but never a disbeliever in religion. He testified that himself. In his latter years General Morgan professed religion, and united himself with the Presbyterian church in this place, under the pastoral care of the Rev. Mr. (now Dr,) Hill, who preached in this house some forty years, and may now be occasionally heard on Loudon street.
Stran 184 - Wand (the man of the house) very ungenerously brought out a musket, and gave it to one of the British soldiers, and told him to make use of that. He mounted the only horse they could get, and presented it at my breast. It missed fire. I rushed on the muzzle of the gun.