Sketches of the Civil And Military Services of William Henry Harrison
Sketches of the Civil And Military Services of William Henry Harrison
Charles Stewart Todd
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By his aid the general was enabled to reach the camp of the battalion. "* The gallant colonel Wood, than whom, on a question of this kind, there is no higher authority, says : " What * M'Afee. GENERAL HARRISON. 59 human means, in the control of general Harrison, could prevent the anticipated disaster, and save that corps, vhich was already looked upon as lost, as doomed to in- evitable destruction? Certainly none — because neither orders to halt, nor troops to succor him, could be received in t...ime, or at least that was the expectation. He was already in motion, and general Harrison still at Upper Sandusky, seventy miles in his rear. The weather was inclement — the snow was deep — and a large portion of the black swamp was yet open. What could a Turenne or an Eugene have done, under a pressure of embarrass- ing circumstances, more than Harrison did?'''* After the action of the 18th, there were powerful rea- sons why general Winchester should not abandon his position. "The protection of the French inhabitants was now an imperative duty.
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