 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1834 - 574 pages
...you, that I have not as yet composed the latter. But, by the all-powerful dispensations of Providence, I have been protected beyond all human probability...through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt, although death was levelling my companions on every side of me ! We have been most... | |
 | George Washington - United States - 1834 - 574 pages
...killed in the field, where died many other brave officers. I luckily escaped without a wound, though I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me. Captains Orme and Morris, two of the aids-de-camp, were wounded early in the engagement, which rendered... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1834 - 574 pages
...killed in the field, where died many other brave officers. I luckily escaped without a wound, though I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me. Captains Orme and Morris, two of the aids-de-camp, were wounded early in the engagement, which rendered... | |
 | Edward Charles M'Guire - 1836 - 432 pages
...probability, or * We shall mainly rely upon his " Writings," as recently edited and published by J. Sparks. expectation ; for I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt, although death was levelling my companions on every side of me." Was there not, indeed,... | |
 | Edward Charles M'Guire - 1836 - 428 pages
...probability, or expectation ; for I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt, although death was levelling my companions on every side of me." Was there not, indeed, in that marvellous preservation, a most signal proof given of the particular... | |
 | George Washington - United States - 1837 - 644 pages
...sharp-shooters. " By the all-powerful dispensations of Providence," said he, in a letter to his brother, "I have been protected beyond all human probability...was levelling my companions on every side of me." So bloody a contest has rarely been witnessed. The number of officers in the engagement wjas eighty-six,... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1837 - 654 pages
...sharp-shooters. "By the all-powerful dispensations of Providence," said he, in a letter to his brother, "I have been protected beyond all human probability...was levelling my companions on every side of me." So bloody a contest has rarely been witnessed. The number of officers in the engagement was eighty-six,... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1837 - 658 pages
...sharp-shooters. "By the all-powerful dispensations of Providence," said he, in a letter to his brother, "I have been protected beyond all human probability...was levelling my companions on every side of me." So bloody a contest has rarely been witnessed. The number of officers in the engagement was eighty-six,... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1837 - 650 pages
...sharp-shooters. "By the all-powerful dispensations of Providence," said he, in a letter to his brother, "I have been protected beyond all human probability...was levelling my companions on every side of me." So bloody a contest has rarely been witnessed. The number of officers in the engagement was eighty-six,... | |
 | Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1839 - 666 pages
...sharp-shooters. " By the all powerful dispensations of Providence," said he, in a letter to his brother, " I have been protected beyond all human probability...was levelling my companions on every side of me." So bloody a contest has rarely been witnessed. The number of officers in the engagement was eighty-six,... | |
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I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt, though death was levelling my companions on every side of me... 
