 | Abiel Holmes - America - 1813 - 478 pages
...execution, were destroyed ; the provost marshal assigning this extraordinary reason for that outrage, " that the rebels should not know they had a man in their armyi who could die with so muqh firmness." Captain Nathan Hale united in liis character the soldier,... | |
 | Charles Prentiss, William Sullivan - United States - 1821 - 288 pages
...letters he had written to his mother and other relations were destroyed ; the provost Marshall declaring "the rebels should not know they had a man in their army who could die with so much firmness." — Arnold was made a Brigadier General in the British service. January, 1781. A mutiny, the consequences... | |
 | Statesmen - 1824 - 518 pages
...and other friends, were destroyed: and this very extraordinary reason given by the provost marshal, "that the rebels should not know they had a man in their army who could die with so much firmness." Unknown to all around him, without a single friend to offer him the least consolation, thus fell as... | |
 | Jedidiah Morse - Indians of North America - 1824 - 524 pages
...this very extraordinary reason given by the provost marshal, ' that the rebels should not know that they had a man in their army, who could die with so much firmness.' Unknown to all around him, without a single friend to offer him the least consolation, thus fell as... | |
 | Presidents - 1825 - 476 pages
...and other riends, were destroyed , and this very extraordinary reafon given by the provost marshal, " THAT THE REBELS SHOULD NOT KNOW THEY HAD A MAN IN THEIR ARMY WHO COULD DIE WITH SO MUCH FIRMNESS." Unknown to all around him, without a single friend to offer him the least consolation, thus fell as... | |
 | United States - 1825 - 472 pages
...destroyed ; and this very extraordinary reason Upven by the provost marshal, " THAT THE REBELS SHOULD KOT KNOW THEY HAD A MAN IN THEIR ARMY WHO COULD DIE WITH SO MUCH FIRMNESS." Unknown to all around him, without a single friend to offer him the least consolation, thus fell as... | |
 | James Thacher - American War of Independence, 1775-1783 - 1827 - 494 pages
...this very extraordinary reason given by the provost marshal, ' that the rebels should not know that they had a man in their army who could die with so much firmness.' '' Unknown to all around him, without a single friend to offer him the least consolation, thus fell... | |
 | James Thacher - American War of Independence, 1775-1783 - 1827 - 502 pages
...very extraordinary reason given by the provost marshal,' that the rebels should not know that they bad a man in their army who could die with so much firmness.' " Sir William Howe at once gave an order to the provost marshal to execute him the next morning. "... | |
 | John Warner Barber - United States - 1828 - 280 pages
...very extraordinary reason was given by the provost marshal, " that the rebels should not know that they had a man in their army, who could die with so much firmness." "Unknown to all around him, without a single friend to offer him the least consolation, thus fell as... | |
 | 1829 - 606 pages
...other friends, were destroyed, and this very extraordinary reason was given by th« provost marshal, ' that the rebels should not know they had a man in their army who could die with so much firmness.' Unknown to all around him, without a single friend to offer him the least consolation, thus fell as... | |
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... that the rebels should not know they had a man in their army who could die with so much firmness. 
