| William Elsey Connelley, Ellis Merton Coulter - 1922 - 676 páginas
...conveyed by the officers who commanded on the right bank, General Jackson declared of these Kentuckians : "What is strange and difficult to account for, at the very moment when the entire discomfiture of the enemy was looked for with a confidence amounting to certainty, the Kentucky... | |
| James Barnett Adair - 1924 - 412 páginas
...over in his boats a considerable force to the other side of the river. These having landed were hardly enough to advance against the works of General Morgan...difficult to account for, at the very moment when their discomfiture was looked for with a confidence approaching to certainty, the Kentucky re-inforcements,... | |
| Andrew Jackson - 1927 - 496 páginas
...upon my lines, he had thrown over in his boats a considerable force to the other side of the river. These having landed were hardy enough to advance against...approaching to certainty, the Kentucky reinforcements, ingloriously fled, drawing after them, by their example, the remainder of the forces ; and thus yielding... | |
| Henry Adams - 1986 - 1458 páginas
...said, "the enemy had thrown over in his boats a considerable force to the other side of the river. These having landed were hardy enough to advance against...approaching to certainty, the Kentucky reinforcements ingloriously fled, drawing after them by their example the remainder of the forces, and thus yielding... | |
| Charles Jared Ingersoll - 1852 - 422 páginas
...General Morgan's command." To which General Jackson's more polished, but not less pointed, censure added, "At the very moment when their entire discomfiture...whom so much reliance had been placed, ingloriously fled, drawing after them, by their example, the remainder of the forces, and thus yielding to the enemy... | |
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