 This is Thanksgiving Day through the whole continent of America, but God knows we have very little to keep it with this being the third day we have been without flour or bread — and are living on a high uncultivated hill, in huts and tents.  Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society - Side 112af Massachusetts Historical Society - 1888Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Daniel Goodwin - 1884 - 172 sider
...3d day we have been without flour or bread, and are living on a high uncultivated hill in huts and tents, laying on the cold ground. Upon the whole,...all we have to be thankful for, is that we are alive and not in the grave with so many of our friends. We had for Thanksgiving breakfast some exceeding... | |
 | Henry Dearborn - 1887 - 44 sider
...miles of us & Carried off some Liquers from a Tavern. 15 we have fine weather for the season. 16th the weather is Cold & wet which renders our Living...it haveing No other Platter — I Dined & sup.d at Genr! Sulivans to Day & so Ended thanksgiving. 19 the army marched about 5 mile & incamp.d Near a height... | |
 | Harry Hayman Cochrane - 1894 - 644 sider
...have been without flour or bread, and are living on a high uncultivated hill, in huts and tents, lying on the cold ground. Upon the whole I think all we have to be thankful for, is that we are alive and not in the grave with so many of our friends. We had for Thanksgiving breakfast some exceeding... | |
 | Louis Clinton Hatch - 1903 - 248 sider
...day we have been without flour or bread — and are living on a high uncultivated hill, in huts and tents. Laying on the cold ground, upon the whole I...all we have to be thankful for is that we are alive and not in the grave with many of our friends — we had for Thanksgiving breakfast some exceeding... | |
 | Louis Clinton Hatch - 1904 - 250 sider
...on the cold ground, upon the whole I think all we have to be thankful for is that we are alive and not in the grave with many of our friends — we had...breakfast some exceeding poor beef which has been boiled and now warmed in an old short-handled frying-pan in which we were obliged to eat it having... | |
 | Bruce Lancaster, John Harold Plumb - 2001 - 380 sider
...have very little to keep it with, this being the third day we have been without flour or bread. . . . Upon the whole I think all we have to be thankful for is that we . . . are not in the grave with many of our friends." Too weak to mount an attack, too wise to count on Howe's... | |
 | Thomas J. McGuire - 2006 - 422 sider
...high uncultivated hill, in huts & tents Laying on the cold ground," Lt. Col. Henry Dearborn wrote. "Upon the whole I think all we have to be thankful...that we are alive & not in the Grave with many of our friends."1' "The Commander in Chief with the highest satisfaction expresses his thanks to the officers... | |
 | James R. Gaines - 2007 - 580 sider
...quite remember what they were giving thanks for, "this being the third day we have been without flour or bread — & are living on a high uncultivated hill,...all we have to be thankful for is that we are alive ¬ in the grave. . . ."The next day they were to march to winter quarters at Valley Forge, and in... | |
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