| 1881 - 792 страница
...then ambassador to France, wrote to Washington : " All the world agree that no expedition was ever better planned or better executed. It brightens the...must accompany your name to the latest posterity." Very diff rent was the effect which this news produced in England. When it was broken to Lord North,... | |
| GEORGE BANCROFT - 1875 - 750 страница
...success so complete." " All the world agree," wrote Franklin to Washington, " that no expedition was ever better planned or better executed. It brightens the...must accompany your name to the latest posterity." The first tidings of the surrender of Cornwallis reached England from France, about noon on the as.... | |
| George Bancroft - 1876 - 676 страница
...success so complete." " All the world agree," wrote Franklin to Washington, "that no expedition was ever better planned or better executed. It brightens the...must accompany your name to the latest posterity." The first tidings of the surrender of Cornwallis reached England from. France about noon on the twenty-fifth... | |
| George Bancroft - 1878 - 676 страница
...success so complete." "All the world agree," wrote Franklin to Washington, "that no expedition was ever better planned or better executed. It brightens the...must accompany your name to the latest posterity." The first tidings of the surrender of Cornwallis reached England from France about noon on the twenty-fifth... | |
| Charles Edwards Lester - 1883 - 612 страница
...success so complete.' ' All the world agree,' wrote Franklin to Washington, ^that no expedition was ever better planned, or better executed It brightens the...must accompany your name to the latest posterity.' " The first tidings of the surrender of Cornwallis reached England from France about noon on the twenty-fifth... | |
| George Bancroft - 1884 - 620 страница
...success so complete." " All the world agree," wrote Franklin to Washington, " that no expedition was ever better planned or better executed. It brightens the...must accompany your name to the latest posterity." The first tidings of the surrender of Cornwallis reached England from France about noon on the twenty... | |
| George Bancroft - 1884 - 618 страница
...success so complete." " All the world agree," wrote Franklin to Washington, " that no expedition was ever better planned or better executed. It brightens the...must accompany your name to the latest posterity." The first tidings of the surrender of Cornwallis reached England from France about noon on the twenty... | |
| Ethan Allen - 1899 - 574 страница
...tidings of Yorktown threw a halo around his death-bed . —Bancroft. 4 The joy penetrated all the peopK "History," said Vergennes, "offers few examples of...expedition was better planned or better executed. It brighter the glory that must accompany your name to the latest posterity."— Bigelow. And Rochambeau... | |
| New Jersey Historical Society - 1920 - 582 страница
...in November, 1781, Franklin wrote to Washington : "All the world agree that no expedition was ever better planned, or better executed. It brightens the...must accompany your name to the latest posterity." And Vergennes, chief in the French administration, asserted : "History offers few examples of a success... | |
| Charles Austin Beard, Mary Ritter Beard - 1921 - 736 страница
...world agree," exultantly wrote Franklin from Paris to General Washington, " that no expedition was ever better planned or better executed. It brightens the...must accompany your name to the latest posterity." Diplomacy as well as martial valor had its reward. PEACE AT LAST British Opposition to the War. —... | |
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