 | 1917
...his brother John, Washington says: ' ' I have been protected by Providence beyond all expectation. I had four bullets through my coat and two horses shot under me, and yet escaped unhurt." When General Washington left Virginia, June 30, 1775, to take command of the... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1918 - 505 頁
...attacked by the French with Indian allies, and totally defeated. Washington wrote to his mother, " I luckily escaped without a wound though I had four...bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me." It was three years before the English were able to return and take the fort. FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR... | |
 | Wayne Whipple - 1918 - 256 頁
...dispensations of Providence, I have been protected beyond all human probability and expectation ; for I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt, altho' death was leveling my companions on every side of me ! "We have been most... | |
 | William Jackson Johnstone - 1919 - 299 頁
...dispensations of Providence, I have been protected beyond all human probability or expectation; for I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt, although death was leveling my companions on every side of me!"26 1755] 40 [Age... | |
 | Arthur Christopher Benson, Herbert Francis William Tatham - 1921 - 295 頁
...dispensations of Providence I have been protected beyond all human probability or expectation, for I had four bullets through my coat and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt, although death was levelling my companions on every side.' There is a tradition... | |
 | James Hosmer Penniman - 1921 - 72 頁
...dispensations of Providence, I have been protected beyond all human probability or expectation; for I had four bullets through my coat and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt although death was levelling my companions on every side of me." In 1789 he wrote:... | |
 | George Thornton Fleming - 1922
...I hope will get over it. Sir Peter Halket, with many other brave officers, was killed on the field. I luckily escaped without a wound, though I had four...bullets through my coat and two horses shot under me. It is supposed we left 300 or more dead on the field; about that number we brought off wounded, and... | |
 | George Thornton Fleming - 1922
...I hope will get over it. Sir Peter Halket, with many other brave officers, was killed on the field. I luckily escaped without a wound, though I had four...bullets through my coat and two horses shot under me. It is supposed we left 300 or more dead on the field ; about that number we brought off wounded, and... | |
 | George Washington - 1931
...was kill'd in the Field where died many other brave Officer's; I luckily escap'd with'ta wound, tho' I had four Bullets through my Coat, and two Horses shot under me; Captns. Orme and Morris two of the Genls. Aids de Camp, were wounded early in the Engagem't. which... | |
 | United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission - 1931
...dispensations of Providence, I have been protected beyond all human probability and expectation ; for I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt, altho' death was levelling my companions on every side of me ! " Of an earlier... | |
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I luckily escaped without a wound, though I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me. 
