 | Edward Lutwyche Parker - 1851 - 464 strani
...distressing war. The place was strongly fortified, yet its reduction was effected by Col. William Pepperell, a merchant, at the head of a body of husbandmen and mechanics. The New Hampshire troops, animated with enthusiastic, if not religious ardor, partook readily and largely... | |
 | Levi Woodbury - 1852 - 450 strani
...his toils and glories in the cause of his countrymen. The titles conferred on Sir William Pepperell and others, for the victory on that occasion, added...homes and firesides, menaced as it was afterwards by Prance, even to " the destruction of the sea-coast from Nova Scotia to Georgia," Without dwelling on... | |
 | Levi Woodbury - 1852 - 460 strani
...being the first instance of so animating a reward to an American for services in the field. AYIiat makes that expedition more full of evidence as to...lawyer, to be executed by a merchant, at the head of a hocly of husbandmen and mechanics." The danger braved, also, was not to be merely that of flood and... | |
 | John Stetson Barry - 1856 - 538 strani
...; and that the provisions and stores of the fortress were greatly reduced.1 The plan of operation, "drawn by a lawyer, to be ' executed by a merchant,...at the head of a body of husbandmen and mechanics, destitute of professional skill and experience," a Apr. so. as we have seen, was frustrated, and the... | |
 | John Warner Barber - 1856 - 644 strani
...published in Coll. Hist. Soc. i. 1 — 11. The plan for the reduction of a regularly constructed fortress "was drawn by a lawyer, to be executed by a merchant, at the head of a body of husbandmen and mechanies." Ralle, or Rasle, a French Jesuit, who resided at Norridgewock, and held a close correspondence... | |
 | John Warner Barber - 1856 - 636 strani
...Hist. Soc. i. 1 — 11. The plan for the reduction of a regularly constructed fortress "was drawn lv a lawyer, to be executed by a merchant, at the head of a body of husbandmen and mechanics." Ralle, or Rasle, a French Jesuit, who resided at Norridgewock, and held a close correspondence with... | |
 | John Stetson Barry - 1857 - 540 strani
...and that the provisions and stores of the fortress were greatly reduced.1 The plan of operation, " drawn by a lawyer, to be executed by a merchant, at the head of a body of husbandmen and mechanies, destitute of professional skill and experience," 2 Apr. so. as we have seen, was frustrated,... | |
 | John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - 1861 - 792 strani
...Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. i, 1 — 11. The plan for the reduction of a regularly constructed fortress " was drawn by a lawyer, to be executed by a merchant,...at the head of a body of husbandmen and mechanics." dence of numerous circumstances and évente, on which the success of the undertaking essentially depended.... | |
 | John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - 1861 - 782 strani
...i 1-11 ' The plan for the reduction of a regularly constructed fortress -was drawn by a lawyer,'to be executed by a merchant, at the head of a body of husbandmen and mechanics." dence of numerous circumstances and events, on which the success of the undertaking essentially depended.... | |
 | William Leete Stone - 1865 - 596 strani
...the Rev. Dr. Belknap, whose trade was not of war, criticises these instructions, drawn, as he says, by a lawyer, to be executed by a merchant, at the head of a body of husbandmen and mechanics. 1 Letter from General Fepperell to Governor Shirley. Although, as I have already said, the design of... | |
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was drawn by a lawyer, to be executed by a merchant, at the head of a body of husbandmen and mechanics. 
