| William Gordon - United States - 1801 - 452 pages
...hand, and asked if he had any thing to sayr htf answered — " Nothing but to request that you will witness to the world, that I die like a brave man." He died universally esteejpu ed and regretted. The sympathy he had excited in the Ame*. lican army vvas... | |
| James Hardie - Biography - 1805 - 536 pages
...at hand, and asked if he had any thing to say, he answered, "nothing but to request, that you will witness to the world, that I die like a brave man." He died universally esteemed and regretred. The sympathy he had excited in the American army was, perhaps,... | |
| Alexander Johnston, James Gallatin, William Penn, William Bradford Reed, Charles John Biddle - Acadians - 1858 - 460 pages
...by, I believe, Colonel Scammell. The reading was very impressive, and at the conclusion Major Andrd uncovered, bowed to the General and other officers,...for immediate execution were being made, he said, in au under-lone : ' It will be but a momentary pang.' Thus died Major John Andre1, Adjutant-General to... | |
| Winthrop Sargent - United States - 1861 - 508 pages
...he bowed courteously to Greene and the attending officers, ami said with firmness and dignity: — "All I request of you, gentlemen, is that you will...witness to the world that I die like a brave man." His last words murmured in an undertone were, — "It will be but a momentary pang! " Everything seemed... | |
| Edward Carlisle Boynton - History - 1864 - 454 pages
...those who, drawn by his gentle, truthful, and candid nature, clustered around him to take his hand : "All I request of you, gentlemen, is, that you will...bear witness to the world that I die like a brave man ;" and adding, " It will be but a momentary pang," Major Andre died, " lamented even by his foes."... | |
| Winthrop Sargent - 1871 - 508 pages
...he bowed courteously to Greene and the attending officers, and said with firmness and dignity: — "All I request of you, gentlemen, is that you will...witness to the world that I die like a brave man." His last words murmured in an undertone were, — "It will be but a momentary pang! " Everything seemed... | |
| Oro Noque - Colonists - 1872 - 178 pages
...him to address the crowd if he desired. He raised the bandage and said with calmness, " I pray you to bear witness to the world that I die like a brave man." He then placed the noose about his neck, the wagon was withdrawn, and in a few seconds he expired. Major... | |
| Military art and science - 1889 - 776 pages
...handkerchief over his eyes. Lifting it for a moment, he bowed courteously to the officers round him, saying,. "All I request of you, gentlemen, is that you will bear witness to the world that I died like a brave man ; " and, as if to himself, " it will be but a momentary pang." Thus perished... | |
| Julian Hawthorne - United States - 1898 - 430 pages
...informed the spectators that he was "reconciled to his fate, but not to the mode," and begged them to "witness to the world that I die like a brave man." He died the death of dishonor which he richly deserved. Sickly sentimentality demands that we "let his... | |
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