| John Marshall - 1805 - 544 pages
...garrison being now lost, the army began to despair of forcing the place to surrender. The provincials, enfeebled by the heat, dispirited by sickness, and...navy being short of provisions, and the usual season for hurricanes approaching, captain Price judged it imprudent to hazard his majesty's ships by remaining... | |
| Abiel Holmes - 1805 - 556 pages
...despair of forcing the place to surrender. The Carolina troops, enfeebled by the heat of the climate, dispirited by sickness, and fatigued by fruitless efforts, marched away in large bodies. The naval commander, in consideration of the shortness of his provisions, and of the near approach of the... | |
| John Marshall - 1804 - 582 pages
...enemy being now lost, the army began to despair of forcing the place to surrender. The provincials, enfeebled by the heat, dispirited by sickness, and...navy being short of provisions, and the usual season for hurricanes approaching, captain Price judged it imprudent to hazard his majesty's ships by remaining... | |
| David Ramsay - 1809 - 454 pages
...forcing the place to surrender. The Carolina troops, enfeebled by the heat — despairing of success — and fatigued by fruitless efforts, marched away in...majesty's ships by remaining longer on that coast. The general was sick of a fever — his regiment exhausted with fatigue and- rendered unlit for action... | |
| Hugh McCall - 1811 - 406 pages
...starving the enemy being lost, the army began to despair of forcing the place to surrender. The Carolina troops enfeebled by the heat, dispirited by sickness, and fatigued by fruitless efforts, decamped in large bodies. The navy being short of provisions, and the usual season of hurricanes approaching,... | |
| John Marshall - 1824 - 500 pages
...through the narrow channel of the Matanzas. The army began to despair of success ; and the provincials, enfeebled by the heat, dispirited by sickness, and...efforts, marched away in large bodies. The navy being ill supplied with provisions, and the season for hurricanes approaching, captain Price was unwilling... | |
| Abiel Holmes - 1829 - 650 pages
...despair of forcing the place to surrender. The Carolina troops, enfeebled by the heat of the climate, dispirited by sickness, and fatigued by fruitless efforts, marched away in large bodies. The naval commander, in consideration of the shortness of his provisions, and of the near approach of the... | |
| Grenville Mellen - 1839 - 934 pages
...despair of forcing the place to surrender. The Carolina troops, enfeebled by the heat of the climate, dispirited by sickness, and fatigued by fruitless efforts, marched away in large bodies. The naval commander, in consideration of the shortness of his provisions, and of the near approach of the... | |
| Georgia Historical Society - 1840 - 334 pages
...starving the enemy being lost, the army began to despair of forcing the place to surrender. "The Carolina troops, enfeebled by the heat, dispirited by sickness,...fruitless efforts, marched away in large bodies. "The navy bejng short of provisions, and the usual season of hurricanes approaching, the commander judged it... | |
| George Bancroft - 1841 - 366 pages
...his own weakness and the strength of the place, to devise measures for victory, till " the Carolina troops, enfeebled by the heat, dispirited by sickness,...fruitless efforts, marched away in large bodies." The small naval force also resolved, in council, "to take off all their men, and sail away," and thus "... | |
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