Gardner's ambush proved fatal to Lord Percy, and another General Officer, who were killed on the spot the first fire. To counterbalance this good news, the story is, that our first man in command (who he is I know not) is also killed. Old and New - Page 388edited by - 1875Full view - About this book
| Christopher Marshall - 1849 - 212 pages
...Gardiner's ambush proved fatal to Lord Percy, and one other General Officer, who were killed on the spot the first fire. To counterbalance this good news,...in command (who he is I know not) is also killed. — It seems they have lost many men on both sides. — Col. Woodsworth had the account in a letter... | |
| American revolution - 1855 - 354 pages
...Gardner's ambush proved fatal to Lord Percy and another general officer, who were killed on the spot at the first fire. To counterbalance this good news, the story is that our first man in command (who he was I know not) is also killed. It seems, they have lost many men on both sides. Colonel Wadsworth... | |
| 1858 - 484 pages
...Gardner's ambush proved fatal to Lord Percy and another general officer, who were killed on the spot the first fire. To counterbalance this good news,...in command (who he is I know not) is also killed. It seems they have lost many men on both sides ; Colonel Wadsworth had the account in a letter from... | |
| Bunker Hill Monument Association - 1893 - 82 pages
...Colonel Gardner's ambush proved fatal to Lord Percy and another general officer, who were killed at the first fire. To counterbalance this good news,...in command (who he is I know not) is also killed." " Our first man in command was killed. Who he was I know not ! " Who he was I know not ! No ; nor does... | |
| William Cullen Bryant, Sydney Howard Gay - 1879 - 758 pages
...Gardner's ambush proved fatal to Lord Percy, and another General Officer, who were killed on the spot the first fire. To counterbalance this good news,...in command (who he is I know not) is also killed. It seems they have lost many men on both sides ; Colonel Wadsworth had the account in a letter from... | |
| Edward Everett Hale - 1891 - 412 pages
...their eager haste. It was in Baltimore on the twenty-seventh. It was in Georgetown, SC, on the tenth of May. It told how the king's troops were besieged...command " was. There was no commander all day long. The dispatch was all untrue. But it told of war, and it fired the whole country. On the twentieth of April... | |
| Bunker Hill Monument Association - 1893 - 74 pages
...general officer, who were killed at the first fire. To counterbalance this good news, the storjiis that our first man in command (who he is I know not) is also killed." " Our first man in command was killed. Who he was I know not ! " Who he was I know not ! No ; nor does... | |
| William Cullen Bryant, Sydney Howard Gay, Noah Brooks - 1896 - 718 pages
...Gardner's ambush proved fatal to Lord Percy, and another General Officer, who were killed on the spot the first fire. To counterbalance this good news,...in command (who he is I know not) is also killed. It seems they have lost many men on both sides ; Colonel Wadsivorth had the account in a letter from... | |
| William Cullen Bryant, Sydney Howard Gay, Noah Brooks - 1898 - 716 pages
...Gardner's ambush proved fatal to Lord Percy, and another General Officer, who were killed on the spot the first fire. To counterbalance this good news,...in command (who he is I know not) is also killed. It seems they have lost many men on both sides ; Colonel Wadsivorth had the account in a letter from... | |
| Ellen Chase - 1910 - 456 pages
...Gardiner's ambush proved fatal to Lord Percy, and one other General Officer, who were killed on the spot by the first fire. — To counterbalance this good news,...in command (who he is I know not) is also killed. — It seems they have lost many men on both sides — Col. Woodsworth [Wadsworth] had the account... | |
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