 | Daniel Chipman - New Hampshire - 1848 - 238 pages
...the exertions of the country. Their lines are extensive and but partially manned, for want of men. I should be glad if a few hills of corn unhoed should...not be a motive sufficient to detain men at home, considering the loss of such an important post might be irretrievable. I am, gentlemen, with the^greatest... | |
 | Daniel Chipman - New Hampshire Grants - 1858 - 94 pages
...the exertions of the country. Their lines are extensive and but partially manned, for want of men. I should be glad if a. few hills of corn unhoed should...not be a motive sufficient to detain men at home, considering the loss of such an important post might be irretrievable. I am, gentlemen, with thetgreatest... | |
 | Hiland Hall - Vermont - 1868 - 536 pages
...country • that their lines were extensive and but partially manned, for want of men ; and he added, " I should be glad if a few hills of corn unhoed should...not be a motive sufficient to detain men at home, considering that the loss of such an important post can hardly be remedied." On the receipt of this... | |
 | United States - 1869 - 396 pages
...on ' the exertions of the country, the lines are so ' much in want of men. I should be glad that ' a few hills of corn unhoed should not be a motive sufficient to detain men at home, consid' ering the loss of such an important post can ' hardly be recovered. "lam, Gentlemen, with the... | |
 | Vermont - Vermont - 1873 - 580 pages
...the exertions of the country. Their lines are, extensive and but partially manned, for want of men. I should be glad if a few hills of corn unhoed should not be a motive sufficient to detatn men at home, considering the loss of such an important post might be irretrievable. I am, gentlemen,... | |
 | Arthur St. Clair, William Henry Smith - Indians of North America - 1881 - 638 pages
...consists much on the exertions of the Country, them lines are so much in want of Men. I should be glud a few hills of corn unhoed should not be a motive sufficient to detain men at home, considering the loss of such an important Post can hardly be recover'd. I am, Gentlemen, in the greatest... | |
 | Rowland Evans Robinson - Vermont - 1892 - 400 pages
...forty or fifty head of beef cattle for Ticonderoga. " I shall be glad," he writes in conclusion, " if a few hills of corn unhoed should not be a motive sufficient to detain men at home, considering the loss of such an important post might be irretrievable." In view of the impending invasion... | |
 | Civic leaders - 1894 - 862 pages
...urging that all men who could possibly be raised be forwarded at once. "I should be glad," he said, "if a few hills of corn unhoed should not be a motive sufficient to detain men at home." He reached Ticonderoga with 900 men, mainly Vermont militia, July 5, in season to assist in its defense,... | |
 | Walter Hill Crockett - Champlain, Lake - 1909 - 356 pages
...Colonel Warner was sent out to secure reinforcements and in a letter written on this subject he said: "I should be glad if a few hills of corn unhoed should not be a motive sufficient to detain men at home considering that the loss of such an important post can hardly be remedied." Gen. John Burgoyne was... | |
 | Mary Hallock Foote - 1910 - 418 pages
...volunteers in the quiet, telling phrases of a farmer talking to his neighbors on his own doorstep. " I shall be glad if a few hills of corn unhoed should not be a motive sufficient to detain men at home." When Bassy was brought home wounded after the fight at Hubbardton, the Tory house that had sheltered... | |
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I should be glad if a few hills of corn unhoed should not be a motive sufficient to detain men at home, considering the loss of such an important post might be irretrievable. 
