 | Charles McKnight - Duquesne, Fort - 1873 - 536 pages
...observed some of the old country soldiers speak Dutch ; as I spoke Dutch, I went to one of them and asked him what was the news. He told me that a runner had...that Braddock would certainly be defeated ; that the Indiana and French had surrounded him, and were concealed behind trees, and in gullies, and kept up... | |
 | Charles McKnight - American fiction - 1873 - 532 pages
...old country soldiers speak Dutch ; as 1 spoke Dutch, I went to one of them and asked him what was tho news. He told me that a runner had just arrived, who...were concealed behind trees, and in gullies, and kept up a constant fire on the English, and that they saw the English falling in heaps, and if they did... | |
 | United States - 1886 - 864 pages
...observed some of the oldcountry soldiers speak Dutch ; as I spoke Dutch, I went to one of them and asked him what was the news. He told me that a runner had...English falling in heaps, and if they did not take to the river, which was the only gap, and make their escape, there would not be one man left alive... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson Chapman - Allegheny River Valley (Pa. and N.Y.) - 1887 - 224 pages
...observed some of the old country soldiers speak Dutch ; as I spoke Dutch I went to one of them and asked him what was the news. He told me that a runner had...English falling in heaps, and if they did not take to the river, which was the only gap, and make their escape, there would not be one man left alive... | |
 | Francis Parkman - Canada - 1914 - 562 pages
...Extraits du Registre du Fort Duquesne (Ibid.). Relation de diverses Mouvements (Ibid.). 1'ouchot• 1. 37. the news. He told me that a runner had just arrived...French had surrounded him, and were concealed behind tree:* and in gullies, and kept a constant fire upon the English ; and that they saw the English falling... | |
 | Horace Kephart - Indian captivities - 1915 - 256 pages
...observed some of the old-country soldiers speak Dutch: as I spoke Dutch, I went to one of them, and asked him what was the news. He told me that a runner had just arrived, who said that Braddock would certainty be defeated ; that the Indians and French had surrounded him, and were concealed behind trees... | |
 | George Thornton Fleming - Pittsburgh (Pa.) - 1922 - 642 pages
...observed some of the old country soldiers speak Dutch; as I spoke Dutch, I went to one of them, and asked him what was the news ? He told me that a runner had...English falling in heaps, and if they did not take to the river, which was the only gap, and make their escape, there would not be one man alive before... | |
 | Frederick Drimmer - History - 1985 - 388 pages
...what was the news. He told me a runner had just arrived who said Braddock would certainly be defeated. The Indians and French had surrounded him and were...gullies, and kept a constant fire upon the English, who were falling in heaps. If they did not take to the river and make their escape, the runner had... | |
 | History - 1886 - 670 pages
...observed some of the oldcountry soldiers speak Dutch ; as I spoke Dutch, I went to one of them and asked him what was the news. He told me that a runner had...English falling in heaps, and if they did not take to the river, which was the only gap, and make their escape, there would not be one man left alive... | |
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I had observed some of the old country soldiers speak Dutch ; as I spoke Dutch I went to one of them and asked him what was the news. He told me that a runner had just arrived, who said that Braddock would certainly be defeated ; that the Indians and... 
