 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - Statesmen - 1876 - 394 pages
...indeed," he said, " be a formidable enemy to your raw American militia. But upon the king's regular and disciplined troops, it is impossible that they should make any impression." Colonel Washington regarded the wagons, and the long array of pack-horses, as so many nuisances, arresting... | |
 | John Stevens C. Abbott - 1879 - 418 pages
...indeed," he said, " be a formidable enemy to your raw American militia. But upon the king's regular and disciplined troops, it is impossible that they should make any impression." Colonel Washington regarded the wagons, and the long array of pack-horses, as so many nuisances, arresting... | |
 | William Henry Withrow - Canada - 1886 - 758 pages
...formidable to your raw American militia," Braddock haughtily answered; "but upon the King's regulars mid disciplined troops, it is impossible that they should...little army of twenty-three hundred men left Fort Cumlxsrland. A hundred expert axe-men went ahead, and the crash of falling trees heralded the advance... | |
 | Frederic William Lucas - America - 1891 - 266 pages
...error of despising his enemy. " The savages," he said, " may be formidable to your American militia ; upon the King's regulars and disciplined troops it...impossible that they should make any impression." And so, on the 19th June, with a light heart, he left Dunbar with his main body at Fort Cumberland,... | |
 | John Roy Musick - Braddock's Campaign, 1755 - 1893 - 518 pages
...ambushes. Braddock haughtily answered : " The savages may be formidable to your raw American militia ; but upon the king's regulars and disciplined troops...impossible that they should make any impression." "No, egad!" put in Major Bridges, "the savages before the king's regulars will melt away like frost... | |
 | John Roy Musick - 1895 - 516 pages
...ambushes. Braddock haughtily answered : " The savages may be formidable to your raw American militia ; but upon the king's regulars and disciplined troops...impossible that they should make any impression." "No, egad!" put in Major Bridges, "the savages before the king's regulars will melt away like frost... | |
 | John Fiske - Evolution - 1902 - 336 pages
...laying ambuscades, he scornfully answered, " The savages may be formidable to your raw American militia; upon the king's regulars and disciplined troops it...impossible that they should make any impression." In this too confident mood the expedition started. There were more than two thousand men in all, —... | |
 | John Roy Musick - United States - 1907 - 526 pages
...ambushes. Braddock haughtily answered: " The savages may be formidable to your raw American militia; but upon the king's regulars and disciplined troops...impossible that they should make any impression." "No, egad!" put in Major Bridges, "the savages before the king's regulars will melt away like frost... | |
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... him, ventured to remark one day at the commander's dinner-table that the mountains were hard to pass with troops and their supplies, and that the Indians were dexterous in laying and executing ambushes. Braddock haughtily answered : " The savages... 