 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1834 - 574 pagina’s
...National Road, four miles from the foot of Laurel Hill, and fifty miles from Cumberland at Will's Creek. On the 3d of July early in the morning an alarm was...o'clock they approached the fort, and began to fire, at the distance of six hundred yards, but without effect. Colonel Washington had drawn up his men on the... | |
 | George Washington - 1834 - 574 pagina’s
...National Road, four miles from the foot of Laurel Hill, and fifty miles from Cumberland at Will's Creek. On the 3d of July early in the morning an alarm was...o'clock they approached the fort, and began to fire, at the distance of six hundred yards, but without effect. Colonel Washington had drawn up his men on the... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1834 - 574 pagina’s
...National Road, four miles from the foot of Laurel Hill, and fifty miles from Cumberland at Will's Creek. On the 3d of July early in the morning an alarm was...reported, to nine hundred men, was only four miles oflF. At eleven o'clock they approached the fort, and began to fire, at the distance of six hundred... | |
 | Edward Charles M'Guire - 1836 - 428 pagina’s
...fortifications, and await the movements of the enemy. On the 3d of July, early in the morning, an alarm waa received from a sentinel, who had been wounded by...enemy ; and at nine o'clock, intelligence came that their whole body, amounting, as was reported, to 900 men, were only four miles off. The action soon... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1837 - 650 pagina’s
...yards, with a trench partly finished on two sides. The entrances were guarded by three bastions. " On the 3d of July early in the morning an alarm was...o'clock they approached the fort, and began to fire, at the distance of six hundred yards, but without effect. Colonel Washington had drawn up his men on the... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1837 - 658 pagina’s
...thirty-five yards, with a trench pardy finished on two sides. The entrances were guarded by three bastions. " On the 3d of July early in the morning an alarm was...o'clock they approached the fort, and began to fire, at the distance of six hundred yards, but without effect. Colonel Washington had drawn up his men on the... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1837 - 654 pagina’s
...yards, with a trench partly finished on two sides. The entrances were guarded by three bastions. " On the 3d of July early in the morning an alarm was...o'clock they approached the fort, and began to fire, at the distance of six hundred yards, but without effect. Colonel Washington had drawn up his men on the... | |
 | Jared Sparks - 1839 - 666 pagina’s
...National Road, four miles from the foot of Laurel Hill, and fifty miles from Cumberland at Will's Creek. On the 3d of July early in the morning an alarm was Battle or the * * Great Me.idreceived from a sentinel, who had been wounded by the ow<enemy ; and at... | |
 | Jared Sparks - 1840 - 354 pagina’s
...National Road, four miles from the foot of Laurel Hill, and fifty miles from Cumberland at Will's Creek. On the 3d of July, early in the morning, an alarm...o'clock they approached the fort, and began to fire, at the distance of six hundred yards, but without effect. Colonel Washington had drawn up his men on the... | |
 | Israel Daniel Rupp - 1846 - 814 pagina’s
...four miles from the foot of Laurel Hill, and fifty miles from Cumberland at Will's Creek. On the 2d of July, early in the morning, an alarm was received...o'clock they approached the fort, and began to fire, at the distance of six hundred yards, but without effect. Col. Washington had drawn up his men on the... | |
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On the 3d of July early in the morning an alarm was received from a sentinel, who had been wounded by the enemy ; and at nine o'clock intelligence came, that the whole body of the enemy, amounting, as was reported, to nine hundred men, was only four miles... 
