 | 1856 - 504 pages
...off; in some instances almost by whole regiments, by half ones, and by companies at a time. * * ยป With the deepest concern, I am obliged to confess...want of confidence in the generality of the troops. * * * Our number of men at present fit for duty is under twenty thousand. I have ordered General Mercer... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1853 - 410 pages
...gone off; in some instances almost by whole regiments, by half ones, and by companies at a time .... and with the deepest concern, I am obliged to confess...want of confidence in the generality of the troops. Till of late I had no doubt in my own mind of defending this place ; nor should I have yet, if the... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1853 - 426 pages
...off ; in " some instances almost by whole regiments, by half ones, " and by companies at a time .... and with the deepest " concern, I am obliged to confess...want of confidence " in the generality of the troops. Till of late I had no " doubt in my own mind of defending this place ; nor should " I have yet, if... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1855 - 464 pages
...inculcated before, as well as the nature of our military establishment would admit of, our condition is still more alarming ; and with the deepest concern...want of confidence in the generality of the troops." The British General being in possession of Long Island, prepared to attack New-York. The body of the... | |
 | Washington Irving - Biography & Autobiography - 1855 - 606 pages
...off; in some instances almost by whole regiments, by half ones, and by companies, at a time. * * * * With the deepest concern, I am obliged to confess...want of confidence in the generality of the troops. * * * Our number of men at present fit for duty is under twenty thousand. I have ordered General Mercer... | |
 | George Tucker - History - 1856 - 672 pages
...instances almost by whole regiments, in many by half ones, and by companies at a time. With the deepeit concern, I am obliged to confess my want of confidence in the generality of the troops." He again pressed upon Congress the necessity of enlisting men for a longer period; and he seemed confident... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - United States - 1857 - 612 pages
...disorganization of his command, and filled his mind with a sad presage of the future. He writes to Congress, " with the deepest concern I am obliged to confess my...want of confidence in the generality of the troops." But the inertness of Howe, permitting the escape of an army within his grasp, was also disclosed. The... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - United States - 1857 - 610 pages
...disorganization of his command, and filled his mind with a sad presage of the future. He writes to Congress, " with the deepest concern I am obliged to confess my...want of confidence in the generality of the troops." But the inertness of Howe, permitting the escape of an army within his grasp, was also disclosed. The... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1858 - 420 pages
...gone off; in some instances almost by whole regiments, by half ones, and by companies at a time .... and with the deepest concern, I am obliged to confess...want of confidence in the generality of the troops. Till of late 1 had no doubtinmyown mind of defending this place; nor should I have yet, if the men... | |
 | E. Cecil - Presidents - 1859 - 292 pages
...were alike dispirited by the defeat on Long Island ; and Washington wrote, on the 2d of September, " With the deepest concern, I am obliged to confess...want of confidence in the generality of the troops." Now a doubt arose as to the possibility of defending New York. The men-of-war passed freely up both... | |
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... almost every kind of restraint and government have produced a like conduct but too common to the whole, and an entire disregard of that order and subordination necessary to the well-doing of an army and which had been inculcated before, as well as... 
