 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1834 - 574 sider
...I have not as yet composed the latter. But, by the all-powerful dispensations of Providence, I have been protected beyond all human probability or expectation...death was levelling my companions on every side of me ! We have been most scandalously beaten by a trifling body of men, but fatigue and want of time prevent... | |
 | George Washington - 1834 - 574 sider
...killed in the field, where died many other brave officers. I luckily escaped without a wound, though I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me. Captains Orme and Morris, two of the aids-de-camp, were wounded early in the engagement, which rendered... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1834 - 574 sider
...killed in the field, where died many other brave officers. I luckily escaped without a wound, though I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me. Captains Orme and Morris, two of the aids-de-camp, were wounded early in the engagement, which rendered... | |
 | Edward Charles M'Guire - 1836 - 428 sider
...wonderful preservation on that memorable occasion : "By the all-powerful dispensations of Providence I have been protected beyond all human probability, or expectation...was levelling my companions on every side of me." Was there not, indeed, in that marvellous preservation, a most signal proof given of the particular... | |
 | Edward Charles M'Guire - 1836 - 432 sider
...probability, or * We shall mainly rely upon his " Writings," as recently edited and published by J. Sparks. expectation ; for I had four bullets through my coat,...was levelling my companions on every side of me." Was there not, indeed, in that marvellous preservation, a most signal proof given of the particular... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1837 - 650 sider
...sharp-shooters. "By the all-powerful dispensations of Providence," said he, in a letter to his brother, "I have been protected beyond all human probability or expectation...through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet I escaped unhurt, although death was levelling my companions on every side of me." So bloody a contest... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1837 - 654 sider
...sharp-shooters. "By the all-powerful dispensations of Providence," said he, in a letter to his brother, "I have been protected beyond all human probability or expectation...through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet I escaped unhurt, although death was levelling my companions on every side of me." So bloody a contest... | |
 | George Washington - 1837 - 644 sider
...sharp-shooters. " By the all-powerful dispensations of Providence," said he, in a letter to his brother, "I have been protected beyond all human probability or expectation;...through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet I escaped unhurt, although death was levelling my companions on every side of me." So bloody a contest... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1837 - 658 sider
...sharp-shooters. "By the all-powerful dispensations of Providence," said he, in a letter to his brother, "I have been protected beyond all human probability or expectation...through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet I escaped unhurt, although death was levelling my companions on every side of me." So bloody a contest... | |
 | Jared Sparks - 1839 - 632 sider
...By the all powerful dispensations of 11L Providence," said he, in a letter to his brother, " I have been protected beyond all human probability or expectation...through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet I escaped unhurt, although death was levelling my companions on every side of me." So bloody a contest... | |
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I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt, though death was levelling my companions on every side of me... 
