A History of the United States, From the Discovery of the American Continent ...
A History of the United States, From the Discovery of the American Continent ...
Bancroft, George, 1800-1891
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Washington?" asked Lord Halifax a few months later. " I know nothing of him," he added, " but that they say he behaved in Braddock's action as bravely as if he really loved the whistling of bullets." * '13ie Virginia troops showed great valor, and were nearly all mas- sacred. Of three companies, scarcely thirty men were ^ Washington to lus mother, 18 ^ Washington to his brother, 18 Jnly, 1765. Jnly, 1756. ' Orailc, in MarshaU^s life of ' Hali&z to Sir Oharlai Hardy, Washington, ii. 19. 81 Maroh..., 1766. ' Same to Kr. Onstis, of Aiv lington. Digitized by Google THB OHIO VAIiLET AlTD ACADIA. 191 left alive. Captain Peyronney and all his officers, chap. down to a corporal, were killed ; of Poison's, whose ,^^^ hravery was honored by the Legislature of the Old 1755. Dominion, only one was left. But " those they call regolaiB, having wasted their ammnnition, broke and ran, as sheep before honnds, leaving the artiUery, pro- visions, baggage, and even the private papers of the general, a prey to the enemy.
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