 | Washington Irving - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 409 pages
...them through the woods and bushes, and also what I had heard of a former defeat of fifteen hundred French, who invaded the Illinois country, I had conceived...campaign; but I ventured only to say, 'To be sure, sir, if yon arrive well before Duquesne with these fine troops, so well provided with artillery, the fort,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 258 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,... | |
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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... 
