 | Aaron Bancroft - 1807 - 576 pages
...the purchasing line in this camp, and with him, this melancholy and alarming truth, that he had not a single hoof of any kind to slaughter, and not more than twentyfive barrels of flour ! From hence, form an opinion of our situation, when I add, that he could not tell when to expect any.... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1808 - 584 pages
...the purchasing line in this camp, and with him, this melancholy and alarming truth, that he had not a single hoof of any kind to slaughter, and not more than twenty-five barrels of flour ! From hence, form an opinion of our situation, when I add, that he could not tell when to expect any.... | |
 | Paul Allen - United States - 1822 - 540 pages
...was but one purchasing Commissary in his camp, and according to his letter of that date, " he had not a single hoof of any kind to slaughter, and not more than twenty-five barrels of flour, and could not tell where to expect any. The present commissaries, (he continues) are by no means equal... | |
 | Paul Allen - United States - 1822 - 540 pages
...was but one purchasing Commissary in his camp, and according to his letter of that date, " he had not a single hoof of any kind to slaughter, and not more than twenty-five barrels of flour, and could not tell where to expect any. The present commissaries, (he continues) are by no means equal... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1832 - 636 pages
...pregnant with both, than the winter of the encampment at Valley Forge. At one time " there was not a single hoof of any kind to slaughter, and not more than twenty-five barrels of flour;" while the commissary was unable to " tell when to expect any. " In the beginning of February, the commissaries... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1834 - 600 pages
...the purchasing line in this camp ; and, with him, this melancholy and alarming truth, that he had not a single hoof of any kind to slaughter, and not more than twenty-five barrels of flour! From hence form an opinion of our situation when I add, that he could not tell when to expect any.... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1834 - 594 pages
...the purchasing line in this camp ; and, with him, this melancholy and alarming truth, that he had not a single hoof of any kind to slaughter, and not more than twenty-five barrels of flour ! From hence form an opinion of our situation when I add, that he could not tell when to expect any.... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1834 - 590 pages
...the purchasing line in this camp ; and, with him, this melancholy and alarming truth, that he had not a single hoof of any kind to slaughter, and not more than twenty-five barrels of flour ! From hence form an opinion of our situation when I add, that he could not tell when to expect any.... | |
 | John Marshall - Presidents - 1836 - 534 pages
...the purchasing line in this camp, and with him this melancholy and alarming truth, that he had not a single hoof of any kind to slaughter, and not more than twenty-five barrels of flour ! From hence, form an opinion of our situation, when I add that he could not tell when to expect any.... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1836 - 574 pages
...purchasing " line in this camp, and with him this melancholy " and alarming truth, that he had not a single " hoof of any kind to slaughter, and not more " than twenty-five barrels of flour ! From hence " form an opinion of our situation, when I add " that he could not tell when to expect... | |
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This brought forth the only commissary in the purchasing line in this camp ; and, with him, this melancholy and alarming truth, that he had not a single hoof of any kind to slaughter, and not more than twenty-five barrels of flour! 
