 It is expected they will come out over the Neck to-night, and a dreadful battle must ensue. Almighty God, cover the heads of our countrymen, and be a shield to our dear friends ! How many have fallen, we know not.  The Women of the American Revolution - Page 27by Elizabeth Fries Ellet - 1848 - 396 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Abigail Adams - Presidents' spouses - 1840 - 306 pages
...afternoon. It is expected they will come out over the Neck to-night, and a dreadful battle must ensue. Almighty God, cover the heads of our countrymen, and be a shield to our dear friends ! How many have fallen, we know not. The constant roar of the cannon is so distressing, that we cannot... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1840 - 568 pages
...afternoon. "It is expected they will come out over the Neck to-night, and a dreadful battle must ensue. Almighty God, cover the heads of our countrymen, and be a shield to our dear friends ! How many have fallen, we know not. The constant roar of the cannon is so distressing, that we cannot... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1841 - 412 pages
...afternoon. " It is expected they will come out over the Neck to-night, and a dreadful battle must ensue. Almighty God, cover the heads of our countrymen, and be a shield to our dear friends! How many have fallen, we know not. The constant roar of the cannon is so distressing that we cannot... | |
 | Richard Frothingham - Boston (Mass.) - 1851 - 460 pages
...continues : " It is expected they will come out over the Neck to-night, and a dreadful battle must ensue. Almighty God ! cover the heads of our countrymen, and be a shield to our dear friends." In Boston, there was hardly less distress or less alarm. The remains of the gallant officers, the hundreds... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - American literature - 1855 - 294 pages
...afternoon. It is expected they will come out over the Keck to-night, and a dreauful battle nu-t ensue. Almighty God, cover the heads of our countrymen, and be a shield to our dear friends I How many have fallen, we know not. The constant roar of the cannon is so distressing, that we cannot... | |
 | Biographies of American leaders - 1855 - 624 pages
...afternoon. " It is expected they will come out over the Neck to-night, and a dreadful battle must ensue. Almighty God, cover the heads of our countrymen, and be a shield to our dear friends ! How many have fallen, we know not. The constant roar of the cannon is so distressing, that we cannot... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1855 - 718 pages
...It is expected they will come out over the Keck to-night, and a dreadful battle must ensue. Almiehty God, cover the heads of our countrymen, and be a shield to our dear friends ! How many have fallen, we know not. The constant roar of the cannon is so distressing, that we cannot... | |
 | John Stetson Barry - Massachusetts - 1857 - 492 pages
...In such case, it was expected " a dreadful battle must ensue ; " and the wife of John Adams wrote, " Almighty God cover the heads of our countrymen, and be a shield to our dear friends." 3 Gage, however, had no intention of removing his quarters ; Jun. 19. and, exasperated by his reverses,... | |
 | John Stetson Barry - Massachusetts - 1857 - 492 pages
...IE such case, it was expected " a dreadful battle must ensue ; " and the wife of John Adams wrote, " Almighty God cover the heads of our countrymen, and be a shield to our dear friends."3 Gage, however, had no intention of removing his quarters ; Jun. 19. and, exasperated by... | |
 | Bunker Hill Monument Association - Bunker Hill, Battle of, Boston, Mass., 1775 - 1905 - 90 pages
...ashes. It is expected they will come out over the neck to night, and a dreadful battle must ensue. Almighty God cover the heads of our countrymen and be a shield to our dear friends ! How many have fallen we know not. The constant roar of cannon is so distressing that we cannot eat... | |
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