 I am to proceed to Niagara; and, having taken that, to Frontenac, if the season will allow time; and I suppose it will, for Duquesne can hardly detain me above three or four days; and then I see nothing that can obstruct my march to Niagara.  Hazard's Register of Pennsylvania - Page 1351834Full view - About this book
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1898 - 602 pages
...After taking Fort Duquesne, I am to proceed to Niagara, and, having taken that, to Frontenac. Duquesne can hardly detain me above three or four days, and...see nothing that can obstruct my march to Niagara." " The Indians are dexterous in laying and executing ambuscades," replied Franklin, who called to mind... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - American literature - 1899 - 1110 pages
...having taken that, to Frontenac, if the season will allow time; and I suppose it will, for Duquesne can hardly detain me above three or four days; and...that can obstruct my march to Niagara." Having before revolv'd in my mind the long line his army must make in their march by a very narrow road, to be cut... | |
 | Paul Leicester Ford - Literary Criticism - 1899 - 554 pages
...havingtaken that, to Frontenac, if the season will allow time ; and I suppose it will, for Duquesne can hardly detain me above three or four days ; and...that can obstruct my march to Niagara.' Having before revolv'd in my mind the long line his army must make in their march by a verv narrow road, to be cut... | |
 | Thomas Harrison Montgomery - Pennsylvania. University - 1900 - 578 pages
...capture, and thence to Frontenac " if the season will allow time, and I suppose it will, for Duquesne can hardly detain me above three or four days, and...see nothing that can obstruct my march to Niagara." But Franklin * ventured only to say, To be sure, sir, if you arrive well before Duquesne, with these... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson Chapman - History - 1900 - 248 pages
...could not escape him. " Duquesne can hardly detain me above three or four days," he said to Franklin, " and then I see nothing that can obstruct my march to Niagara." By the i8th of the month they had arrived only at the Little Meadow, less than thirty miles from Cumberland,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1901 - 296 pages
...Frontenac, if the season will allow time, and I suppose it will ; for Duquesne can hardly detain me abovt three or four days, and then I see nothing that can...road, to be cut 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,... | |
 | Babylonia - 1903 - 672 pages
...having taken that, to Frontenac, if the season will allow time ; and I suppose it will, for Duquesne can hardly detain me above three or four days; and...that can obstruct my march to Niagara." Having before resolved in my mind the long line his army must make in their march by a very narrow road, to be cut... | |
 | Charles Alexander McMurry - America - 1904 - 288 pages
...having taken that, to Frontenac, if the season will allow time ; and I suppose it will, for Duquesne can hardly detain me above three or four days, and then I can see nothing that can obstruct my march to Niagara.' "Having before resolved in my mind," continues... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1905 - 238 pages
...having taken that, to Frontenac, if the season will allow time; and I suppose it will, for Duquesne can hardly detain me above three or four days; and...their march by a very narrow road, to be cut for them thro' the woods and bushes, and also what I had read of a former defeat of fifteen hundred French,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1905 - 354 pages
...having taken that, to Frontenac, if the season will allow time ; and I suppose it will, for Duquesne can hardly detain me above three or four days ; and...that can obstruct my march to Niagara." Having before revolv'd in my mind the long line his army must make in their march by a very narrow road, to be cut... | |
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