Biographical Sketch of the Life of Andrew Jackson, Major General of the Armies of the United States, the Hero of New OrleansJ. Gladding & Company, 1836 - 65 頁 |
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第 15 頁 - In this battle, the force of the enemy was one thousand and eighty, of whom two hundred and ninety-nine were left dead on the ground; and it is believed that many were killed in the flight, who were not found when the estimate was made. Probably few escaped unhurt. Their loss on this occasion, as stated since by themselves, was not less than six hundred : that of the Americans was fifteen killed, and eighty wounded, several of whom...
第 48 頁 - Pensacola ; that they were collecting in large numbers, five hundred being in Pensacola on the 15th of April, many of whom were known to be hostile, and had just escaped from the pursuit of our troops; that the enemy were furnished with ammunition and supplies, and received intelligence of the...
第 34 頁 - ... gallant deportment extricated him from the danger in which he was placed, and gained for him and his corps the approbation of the commanding general. The enemy, being forced from their position, retired, and the colonel returned to the line with the loss of five of his men. The British were encamped two miles below the American army, on a perfect plain, and in full view. Although foiled in their attempt to carry the works by the force of their batteries on the 28th, they resolved upon another...
第 39 頁 - Legislature, but this circumstance did not prevent him from ordering his arrest and detention for trial. Application was made to one of the Judges for a writ of Habeas Corpus and it was immediately issued.
第 61 頁 - His demeanour was easy and gentle: in every station he was open and accessible to all. The irritability of his temper, which was not denied by his friends, produced contrasts in his manner and countenance leading to very different conceptions and representations as to both : but those who have lived and acted with him bear unanimous testimony to the general mildness of his carriage and the kindness of his disposition. It is certain that he inspired his soldiers, his military household, his domestic...
第 14 頁 - We must and will be victorious ; but we must conquer as men who owe nothing to chance, and who, in the midst of victory, can still be mindful of what is due to humanity ! " We will commence the campaign by an inviolable attention to discipline and subordination.
第 52 頁 - At New York, on the 19th of February, he received the freedom of the city in a gold box ; and there, as well as in Baltimore, the municipal councils requested and obtained his portrait, to be placed in their halls.
第 48 頁 - American commander ordered the Georgia militia, who had joined him, to be discharged, and was about to return himself to Tennessee. But he soon learned that the Indians and negroes were collecting in...
第 42 頁 - ... of foreign incendiaries, were led to believe that the strength of the United States was not sufficient to subdue them; or, if their own forces were incompetent to sustain the conflict, they would receive assistance from the British. These promises, made by these unauthorized agents, were predicated upon a pretence, that the United States had bound themselves, by the Treaty of Ghent, to restore the lands which the Indians had ceded, previously to that Treaty, at Fort Jackson; and that the British...
第 32 頁 - ... maintained a severe conflict 'with a force of four or five thousand, and retired in safety from the ground, with the loss of but twenty-four killed, and one hundred and fifteen wounded, and seventy-four made prisoners ; 'while the killed, wounded, and prisoners of the enemy, were not less than four hundred.