 | Washington Irving - 1860 - 492 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, BIT, if you arrive well before Duquesne with these fine troops, so well provided with artillery, the... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1860 - 482 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...event of the campaign; but I ventured only to say, l To be sure, sir, if you arrive well before Duquesne with these fine troops, so well provided with... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Biography & Autobiography - 1868 - 426 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,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1868 - 434 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,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, John Bigelow - 1875 - 579 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,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 812 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,... | |
 | Jeremiah Chaplin - Biography & Autobiography - 1876 - 416 pages
...former defeat of fifteen hundred French, who invaded the Illinois country, I had conceived some trouble and some fears for the event of the campaign. But I ventured to suggest the danger from Indian ambuscades to a slender line, nearly four miles long, exposed to... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant, Sydney Howard Gay - United States - 1879 - 758 pages
...should only stop a day or two at Fort Du Quesne, and then go on to Niagara and Frontenac. Franklin ventured only to say : " To be sure, sir, if you arrive well before Du Quesne with these fine troops, so well provided with artillery, that Old Barracki, Fr.derick. p... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1881 - 986 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...for the event of the campaign ; but I ventured only fo say, ' To be sure, sir, if you arrive well before Duquesne with these fine troops, so well provided... | |
 | John Esten Cooke - Virginia - 1883 - 568 pages
...oaths, spoke of capturing Fort Duquesue with little dilficulty, the cautious Franklin replied: — "To be sure, sir, if you arrive well before Duquesne, with these fine troops, the fort can probably make but a short resistance." But there were the Indians, — added this obstinate... | |
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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... 
