 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 pagina’s
...not thinking himself safe 'till he arrived at Philadelphia, where the inhabitants could protect him. This whole transaction gave us Americans the first...British regular troops had not been well founded. In their first march too, from their landing 'till they got beyond the settlements, they had plundered... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1834 - 682 pagina’s
...not thinking himself safe till he arrived at Philadelphia, where the inhabitants could protect n'm. This whole transaction gave us Americans the first...British regular troops had not been well founded. In their first march too, from their landing ill they got beyond the settlements, they had )lundered... | |
 | 1834 - 438 pagina’s
...not thinking himself safe till he arrived at Philadelphia, where the inhabitants could protect him. This whole transaction gave us Americans the first...British regular troops had not been well founded. "In their first march, too, from their landing till they got beyond the settlements, they had plundered... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 pagina’s
...not thinking himself safe till he arrived at Philadelphia, where the inhabitants could protect him. This whole transaction gave us Americans the first...British regular troops had not been well founded.* In their first march, too, from their landing till they got beyond the settlements, they had plundered... | |
 | George William Featherstonhaugh - 1847 - 812 pagina’s
...succeed in America against provincial riflemen. Even Dr. Franklin, in his Autobiography, speaking of it, says, " This whole transaction gave us Americans the...British regular troops had not been well founded."* And I have heard several of Washington's nearest relatives say that he also entertained that opinion... | |
 | George William Featherstonhaugh - 1847 - 444 pagina’s
...succeed in America against provincial riflemen. Even Dr. Franklin, in his Autobiography, speaking of it, says, " This whole transaction gave us Americans the...British regular troops had not been well founded." 4 ' 1 ' And I have heard several of Washington's nearest relatives say that he also entertained that... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1848 - 676 pagina’s
...not thinking himself safe till he arrived at Philadelphia, where the inhabitants could protect him. This whole transaction gave us Americans the first...British regular troops had not been well founded.* In their first march, too, from their landing till they got beyond the settlements, they had plundered... | |
 | Orville Luther Holley - 1848 - 522 pagina’s
...taught the colonists a most useful lesson, inasmuch as the whole affair, in the words of Franklin, " gave us Americans the first suspicion that our exalted...British regular troops had not been well founded." This lesson, moreover, was further enforced by the conduct of the same troops while on their advance... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1853 - 522 pagina’s
...not thinking himself safe till he arrived at Philadelphia, where the inhabitants could protect him. This whole transaction gave us Americans the first...British regular troops had not been well founded. In their first march, too, from their landing till they got beyond the settlements, they had plundered... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 pagina’s
...not thinking himself safe till he arrived at Philadelphia, where the inhabitants could protect him. This whole transaction gave us Americans the first...British regular troops had not been well founded. In their first march, too, from their landing till they got beyond the settlements, they had plundered... | |
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... all the country, not thinking himself safe till he arrived at Philadelphia, where the inhabitants could protect him. This whole transaction gave us Americans the first suspicion that our exalted ideas of the prowess of British regular troops had not... 
