 | John Brannan - 1823 - 510 pages
...these savages have exhibited. A large portion of the brave and gallant officers and men I commanded would cheerfully have contested until the last cartridge...been expended, and the bayonets worn to the sockets. Icould not consent to the useless sacrifice of such brave men, when I knew it was impossible for me... | |
 | John Frost - 1845 - 480 pages
...provisions. " A large portion," continues he, " of the brave and gallant officers and men I commanded, would cheerfully have contested until the last cartridge...it was impossible for me to sustain my situation." * Thus ended, in discomfiture and disgrace, the first campaign of the British war. That it was boldly... | |
 | John Frost - 1845 - 474 pages
...would cheerfully have contested until the last cartridge had been ex268 SURRENDER OF DETROIT. pended, and the bayonets worn to the sockets. .I could not...it was impossible for me to sustain my situation." * Thus ended, in discomfiture and disgrace, the first campaign of the British war. That it was boldly... | |
 | William T. Young - 1852 - 432 pages
...officers and men. He says: "A large portion of the brave and gallant officers and men I commanded, would cheerfully have contested until the last cartridge...been expended, and the bayonets worn to the sockets." "Before I close this dispatch, it is a duty I owe my respectable associates in command, Colonels McArthur,... | |
 | William T. Young - 1852 - 430 pages
...officers and men. He says : "A large portion of the brave and gallant officers and men I commanded, would cheerfully have contested until the last cartridge...been expended, and the bayonets worn to the sockets." "Before I close this dispatch, it is a duty I owe my respectable associates in command, Colonels McArthur,... | |
 | Gilbert Auchinleck - 1855 - 456 pages
...surrender of Detroit, as in another part of his official despateh hu thus expresses himself: — " It was impossible, in the nature of things, that an...necessary supplies of provisions, military stores, clothing, and comfort for the sick, on pack-horses through a wilderness of two hundred mlies, filled... | |
 | 1853 - 692 pages
...his official despatch he thus expresses him«elf : — • • It was impossible, in the nature ol things, that an army could have been furnished with...necessary supplies of provisions, military stores, clothing, and comfort for the sick, on pack-horses through a wilderness of two hundred miles, filled... | |
 | William L. G. Smith - 1856 - 800 pages
...officers and men. " A large portion of the brave and gallant officers and men I commanded," says he, " would cheerfully have contested until the last cartridge had been expended and their bayonets worn to the sockets. It is a duty I owe my associates in command, Colonels McArthur,... | |
 | William L. G. Smith - 1856 - 798 pages
...officers and men. " A large portion of the brave and gallant officers and men I commanded," says he, " would cheerfully have contested until the last cartridge had been expended and their bayonets worn to the sockets. It is a duty I owe my associates in command, Colonels McArthur,... | |
 | Silas Farmer - 1884 - 1084 pages
...for his army. General Hull, in his report to the Secretary of War made after the surrender, says : It was impossible, in the nature of things, that an...have been furnished with the necessary supplies of provision, military stores, clothing and comforts for the sick, on pack-horses^ through a wilderness... | |
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A large portion of the brave and gallant officers and men I commanded would cheerfully have contested until the last cartridge had been expended and the bayonets worn to the sockets. I could not consent to the useless sacrifice of such brave men when... 
