 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1834 - 578 pages
...and good intention of our great ally, have nevertheless lessened the importance of its services in a great degree. The length of the passage, in the...Delaware, must inevitably have fallen, and Sir Henry must have had better luck, than is commonly dispensed to men of his profession under such circumstances,... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1834 - 572 pages
...and good intention of our great ally, have nevertheless lessened the importance of its services in a great degree. The length of the passage, in the...Delaware, must inevitably have fallen, and Sir Henry must have had better luck, than is commonly dispensed to men of his profession under such circumstances,... | |
 | George Washington - United States - 1847 - 588 pages
...services in a great degree. The length of the passage, in the first instance, was a capital mis* fortune ; for had even one of common length taken place, Lord...Delaware, must inevitably have fallen, and Sir Henry must have had better luck, than is commonly dispensed to men of his profession under such circumstances,... | |
 | Charles Wentworth Upham - Presidents - 1856 - 422 pages
...and good intention of our great ally, have, nevertheless, lessened the importance of its services, in a great degree. The length of the passage, in the...Delaware, must inevitably have fallen, and Sir Henry must have had better luck, than is commonly dispensed to men of his profession, under such circumstances,... | |
 | Alfred Thayer Mahan - France - 1890 - 710 pages
...misfortune ; for had even one of common length taken place, Lord Howe, with the British ships-of-war and all the transports in the river Delaware, must...men of his profession under such circumstances, if be and his troops had not shared at least the fate of Bnrgoyne. The long passage of Count d'Estaing... | |
 | Alfred Thayer Mahan - Naval history - 1890 - 644 pages
...misfortune ; for had even one of common length taken place, Lord Howe, with the British ships-of-war and all the transports in the river Delaware, must inevitably have fallen ; and Sir Heury Clinton must have had better Inck than is commonly dispensed to men of his profession umler such... | |
 | United States Naval Institute - Marine engineering - 1896 - 1272 pages
...force in Newport." Washington wrote on August 20, 1778, in relation to d'Estaing's further mission: "The length of the passage, in the first instance,...troops had not shared at least the fate of Burgoyne. The long passage of Count d'Estaing was succeeded by an unfavorable discovery at the Hook, which hurt... | |
 | Naval art and science - 1896 - 216 pages
...force in Newport." Washington wrote on August 20, 1778, in relation to d'Estaing's further mission : " The length of the passage, in the first instance,...troops had not shared at least the fate of Burgoyne. The long passage of Count d'Estaing was succeeded by an unfavorable discovery at the Hook, which hurt... | |
 | Alfred Thayer Mahan - Anglo-French War, 1778-1783 - 1913 - 382 pages
...in the mouth of the Delaware. "Had a passage of even ordinary length taken place," wrote Washington, "Lord Howe with the British ships of war and all the...troops had not shared at least the fate of Burgoyne." Had Howe's fleet been intercepted, there would have been no naval defence for New York ; the French... | |
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Lord Howe, with the British ships-of-war and all the transports in the river Delaware, must inevitably have fallen; and Sir Henry Clinton must have had better luck than is commonly dispensed to men of his profession under such circumstances, if he and... 
