 | Benjamin Franklin - 1905 - 238 pages
...bushes, and also what I had read of a former defeat of fifteen hundred French, who invaded the Iroquois country, I had conceived some doubts and some fears...these fine troops, so well provided with artillery, that place not yet compleatly iortified, and as we hear with no very strong garrison, can probably... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1905 - 354 pages
...read of a former defeat of fifteen hundred French, who invaded the Iroquois country, I had conceiv'd some doubts and some fears for the event of the campaign. But I ventur'd only to say, "To be sure, sir, if you arrive well before Duquesne, with these fine troops,... | |
 | Julian Alvin Carroll Chandler, Travis Butler Thames - Virginia - 1907 - 436 pages
...Braddock, and he was unwilling to take the advice of an American who was not even a soldier. Franklin said, "To be sure, sir, if you arrive well before Duquesne, with these fine troops, the fort can probably make but a short resistance." Franklin put great stress on the "if." He emphasized... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1908 - 430 pages
...bushes, and also what I had read of a former defeat of fifteen hundred French, who invaded the Iroquois country, I had conceived some doubts and some fears...campaign. But I ventured only to say, "To be sure, sir, 1 George Croghan was an Indian trader in Pennsylvania as early as 1746. He was Captain of Provincials... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton - Readers - 1908 - 352 pages
...read of a former defeat of fifteen hundred French who invaded the Iroquois country, I had conceiv'd some doubts and some fears for the event of the campaign. But I ventur'd only to say : " To be sure, sir, if yo'u arrive well before Duquesne with these fine troops,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1909 - 236 pages
...bushes, and also what I had read of a former defeat of fifteen hundred French, who invaded the Iroquois country, I had conceived some doubts and some fears...these fine troops, so well provided with artillery, that place not yet compleatly lortified, and as we hear with no very strong garrison, can probably... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1909 - 280 pages
...for them through the woods and bushes, and also what I had read of a former defeat of fifteen hundred French who invaded the Illinois country, I had conceived...say : " To be sure, sir, if you arrive well before Duquesne0 with these fine troops, so well provided with artillery, the fort, though completely fortified... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Inventors - 1909 - 432 pages
...conceiv'd some doubts and some fears for the event of the campaign. But I ventur'd only to say, "To.be sure, sir, if you arrive well before Duquesne, with...these fine troops, so well provided with artillery, that place not yet compleatly fortified, and as we hear with no very strong garrison, can probably... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1910 - 216 pages
...bushes, and also what I had read of a former defeat of fifteen hundred French, who invaded the Iroquois country, I had conceived some doubts and some fears...these fine troops, so well provided with artillery, that place, not yet completely fortified, and, as we hear, with no very strong garrison, can probably... | |
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Having before revolved in my mind the long line his army must make in their march by a very narrow road, to be cut for them... 
