 | 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1912 - 274 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 for the event of the20 campaign. But I ventured only to say, " To be sure, sir, if you arrive well before Duquesne,... | |
 | Augustus White Long - American prose literature - 1917 - 458 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... | |
 | Daniel Henderson - Frontier and pioneer life - 1921 - 246 pages
...great uncertainty.' "As for my reply to General Braddock, all I deemed it wise to say to him was;. " 'To be sure, Sir, if you arrive well before Duquesne...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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1921 - 280 pages
...for them through the woods and bushes, ana also what I had read of a former defeat of fifteen hundred French who invaded the Illinois country, I had conceived some doubts and some fears for the event of the campaigr But 1 ventured only to say : " To be sure, sir, if you arrive well hefore Duquesne0 with these... | |
 | Thomas John Chew Williams, Folger McKinsey - Frederick County (Md.) - 1967 - 1870 pages
...for them through the woods and boshes, and also what I had read of a former defeat of fifteen hundred French, who invaded the Illinois country, I had conceived...doubts and some fears for the event of the campaign. Bnt I ventured only to say, "To be sure, Sir, if you arrive well before Duquesne, with these fin«... | |
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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... 
