 | Samuel Swett - 1827 - 116 pages
...certain that the regiment of Welsh Fusileers was not in the battle. Burgoyne says of the Battle, ' and now ensued one of the greatest scenes of war that can b« conceived : if we look at the height, Howe's corps ascending the hill in the face of iutrenchments,... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1836 - 574 pages
...Boston has described them in a private letter with no slight dramatic force. " And " now," says he, "ensued one of the greatest " scenes of war that can be conceived. If we look " to the height Howe's corps, ascending the hill in " the face of intrenchments and in a... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1831 - 622 pages
...the height. It was seconded by a number of frigates and floating batteries, and one ship of the line. And now ensued one of the greatest scenes of war that can be conceived. If we looked to the right, Howe's corps ascending the hill in the face of entrenchments, and in very... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1851 - 572 pages
...Boston has described them in a private letter with no slight dramatic force. "And " now," says he, " ensued one of the greatest " scenes of war that can be conceived. If we look " to the height Howe's corps, ascending the hill in " the face of intrenchments and in a... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1853 - 426 pages
...Boston, has described them in a private letter with no slight dramatic force. " And now," says he, " ensued one of the greatest scenes of war that can " be conceived. If we look to the height Howe's corps, " ascending the hill in the face of intrenchments and in " a... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1853 - 410 pages
...Boston, has described them in a private letter with no slight dramatic force. " And now," says he, •" ensued one of the greatest scenes of war that can "be conceived. If we look to the height Howe's corps, " ascending the hill in the face of intrenchments and in "a... | |
 | 1857 - 410 pages
...the height ; it was seconded by a number of frigates, floating batteries, and one ship of the line : And now ensued one of the greatest scenes of war that can be conceived ; if we look to the height, Howe's corps ascending the hill in the face of the entrenchments, and in... | |
 | Henry Barton Dawson - 1858 - 774 pages
...the heights; it was seconded by a number of frigates, floating batteries, and one ship-of-theline. And now ensued one of the greatest scenes of war that can be conceived; if we look to the height, Howe's corps ascending the hill in the face of intrenchments, and in a very... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1858 - 420 pages
...Boston, has described them in a private letter with no slight dramatic force. " And now," says he, " ensued one of the greatest scenes of war that can " be conceived. If we look to the height Howe's corps, ' ascending the hill in the face of intrenchments and in ' a... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1865 - 662 pages
...scene from Boston, afterwards thus described it in a letter to lord Stanley, his brother-in-law : " Now ensued one of the greatest scenes of war that can be conceived. If we looked to the height, Howe's corps, ascending the hill in the face of entrenchments, and in very... | |
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And now ensued one of the greatest scenes of war that can be conceived: if we look to the height, Howe's corps, ascending the hill in the face of intrenchments, and in a very disadvantageous ground, was much engaged; to the left the enemy pouring in fresh... 
