 | Periodicals - 1895 - 1034 pages
...that can obstruct my march to Niagara." "To be sure, sir^;" quietly replied the sagacious Franklin, "if you arrive well before Duquesne with these fine...troops, so well provided with artillery, the fort. . . .can probably make but a short resistance." But there was the trouble. 'Twould have been better,... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton, Kate Stephens, George Henry Browne - Literature - 1895 - 328 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 ydu arrive well before Duquesne with these fine troops,... | |
 | Woodrow Wilson - 1896 - 476 pages
...that can obstruct my march to Niagara." " To be sure, sir," quietly replied the sagacious Franklin ; " if you arrive well before Duquesne with these fine troops, so well provided with artillery, the fort . . . can probably make but a short resistance." But there was the trouble. 'Twould have been better,... | |
 | 1896 - 1056 pages
...that can obstruct my march to Niagara." "To be sure, sir;" quietly replied the sagacious Franklin, "if you arrive well before Duquesne with these fine...troops, so well provided with artillery, the fort. . . .can probably make but a short resistance." But there was the trouble. "Twould have been better,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant, Sydney Howard Gay, Noah Brooks - United States - 1896 - 718 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 Quesue with these fine troops, so well provided with artillery, that Old Barracks, Frederick. p... | |
 | Edward Robins - 1898 - 444 pages
...to the outcome of the campaign. And he replied politely to the glowing prophecies of the General : " 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... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant, Sydney Howard Gay, Noah Brooks - United States - 1898 - 716 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 Barrack., Frederick. p... | |
 | 1899 - 1010 pages
...Iroquois country, I had conceiv'd some doubts and some fears for the event of the campaign. Hut I ventur'd only to say: "To be sure, sir, if you arrive well...these fine troops, so well provided with artillery, that place, not completely fortified, and as we hear with no verv strong garrison, can probably make... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - American literature - 1899 - 1110 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 ar-~ยป11 before Duquesne, with these fine troops, so... | |
 | Paul Leicester Ford - Literary Criticism - 1899 - 554 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 1 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... 
