| Horace Walpole, William Mason - 1851 - 478 sider
...besieged in one of their towns, and half her fleet to besiege the terra firma, but orders her army to do nothing, in hopes that the American senate at...Philadelphia will be so frightened at the British army being beseiged in Boston, that it will sue for peace. At last she gives her army leave to sally out, but... | |
| Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1857 - 566 sider
...besieged in one of their towns, and half her fleet to besiege the terra firma ; but orders her army to do nothing, in hopes that the American senate at...being besieged in Boston, that it will sue for peace. At last she gives her army leave to sally out, but being twice defeated, she determines to carry on... | |
| Horace Walpole - 1861 - 552 sider
...besieged in one of their towns, and half her fleet to besiege the terra firma ; but orders her army to do nothing, in hopes that the American senate at...being besieged in Boston, that it will sue for peace. At last she gives her army leave to sally out, but being twice defeated, she determines to carry on... | |
| John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow - 1876 - 618 sider
...her fleet to besiege the terra firma ; >,ut orders her army to do nothing, in hopes that the «rican senate at Philadelphia will be so frightened at the...being besieged in Boston that it will sue for peace. At last she gives her army leave to sally out ; but being twice defeated she determines to carry on... | |
| Boston (Mass.), George Edward Ellis - 1876 - 224 sider
...to besiege the terra firma; but orders her army to do nothing, in hopes that the American Senate in Philadelphia will be so frightened at the British...being besieged in Boston, that it will sue for peace." He wrote to Conway, " AVc have thrown a pebble at a mastiff, and are surprised it was not frightened."... | |
| John Malcom Forbes Ludlow - 1876 - 286 sider
...besieged in one of their towns, and half her fleet to besiege the terra firma\ fout orders her army to do nothing, in hopes that the American senate at Philadelphia will be so frightened at I the British army being besieged in Boston that it will sue for peace. At last she gives her army... | |
| John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow - 1888 - 308 sider
...besieged in one of their towns, and half her fleet to besiege the terra firma ; but orders her army to do nothing, in hopes that the American senate at...being besieged in Boston that it will sue for peace. At last she gives her army leave to sally out ; but being twice defeated she determines to carry on... | |
| John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow - 1889 - 288 sider
...besieged in one of their towns, and half her fleet to besiege the terra firma ; but orders her army to do nothing, in hopes that the American senate at...being besieged in Boston that it will sue for peace. At last she gives her army leave to sally out , but being twice defeated she determines to carry on... | |
| Horace Walpole - 1890 - 334 sider
...besieged in one of their towns, and half her fleet to besiege the terra firma ; but orders her army to do nothing, in hopes that the American senate at...being besieged in Boston that it will sue for peace. At last she gives her army leave to sally out; but being twice defeated, she determines to carry on... | |
| George Otto Trevelyan - 1898 - 458 sider
...descanted to his friend Mason on the absurdity of the idea that the Congress at Philadelphia would be so frightened at the British army being besieged in Boston that it would sue for peace. The thought which struck a man of letters, writing in his study at Twickenham,... | |
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