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" I have ventured these last two days to look General Washington's whole force in the face in the position on the outside of my works, and have the pleasure to assure your Excellency that there is but one wish throughout the army, which is that the enemy... "
Memoir of His Own Life - Page 262
by Roger Lamb - 1811 - 296 pages
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The Virginia Historical Register, and Literary Companion, Volumes 5-6

1852 - 508 pages
...service. I have the honor to be, &c. CORNWALLIS. York-Town in Virginia, September 29, 1781. Sir, — I have ventured these last two days to look General...whole army, which was, that the enemy would advance. I have this evening received your letter of the 24th, which has given me the greatest satisfaction....
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The Virginia Historical Register, and Literary Companion, Volumes 5-6

1852 - 508 pages
...service. I have the honor to be, &c. CORNWALLIS. York-Town in Virginia, September 29, 1781. Sir, — I have ventured these last two days to look General...whole army, which was, that the enemy would advance. I have this evening received your letter of the 24th, which has given me the greatest satisfaction....
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The Virginia Historical Register, and Literary Companion, Volumes 5-6

William Maxwell - 1852 - 500 pages
...service. I have the honor to be, &c. CORNWALLIS. York-Town in Virginia, September 29 , 1781. Sir, — I have ventured these last two days to look General...whole army, which was, that the enemy would advance. I have this evening received your letter of the 24th, which has given me the greatest satisfaction....
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Works, Volume 38

Washington Irving - 1857 - 500 pages
...four, should he still possess the post at Gloucester Point. Cornwallis immediately wrote in reply : "I have ventured these last two days to look General...face in the position on the outside of my works, and have the pleasure to assure your Excellency, that there is but one wish throughout the army, which...
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Life of George Washington, Volume 4

Washington Irving - 1857 - 588 pages
...at Gloucester Point CORNWALL1S ABANDONS HIS OUTWORKS. 381 Cornwallis immediately wrote in reply : " I have ventured these last two days to look General...face in the position on the outside of my works, and have the pleasure to assure your Excellency, that there is but one wish throughout the army, which...
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Life of George Washington, Volume 4

Washington Irving - 1857 - 550 pages
...four, should he still possess the post at Gloucester Point. Cornwallis immediately wrote in reply : "I have ventured these last two days to look General...face in the position on the outside of my works, and have the pleasure to assure your Excellency that there is but one wish throughout the army, which is...
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Chronicle of the conquest of Granada

Washington Irving - 1859 - 468 pages
...four, should he still possess the post at Gloucester Point. Cornwallis immediately wrote in reply: " I have ventured these last two days to look General...face in the position on the outside of my works, and have the pleasure to assure your Excellency that there is but one wish throughout the army, which is...
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Life of Washington: A Biography, Personal, Military, and Political, Volume 2

Benson John Lossing - 1860 - 872 pages
...with twenty-three ships, and that relief would be speedily sent. The earl had vauntingly replied : " I have ventured, these last two days, to look General...face in the position on the outside of my works, and have the pleasure to assure your excellency that there is but one wish throughout the army, which is,...
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OUR FIRST CENTURY: BRING A POPULAR DESCRIPTIVE PORTRAITURE OF THE One ...

R. M. DEVENS - 1876 - 1014 pages
...himself in Virginia, Lord Cornwallis vauntingly wrote to General Clinton, his superior, as follows : — he upper or rounded part is about forty feet high,...a kind of oval pedestal, from forty to sixty feet have the pleasure to assure your Excellency that there is hut one wish throughout the army, which is,...
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The National Memorial Volume: Being a Popular Descriptive Portraiture of the ...

Richard Miller Devens - 1879 - 680 pages
...in Virginia, Lord Cornwallis vaunts ingly wrote to General Clinton, his superior, as follows : — "I have ventured, these last two days, to look General...face, in the position on the outside of my works, and have the pleasure to assure your Excellency that there is but one wish throughout the army, which is,...
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