 | William Cobbett - United States - 1815 - 228 pages
...Patterson. In my encampn ent every thing was ready for action, when, early on the morning of ttie 8th, the enemy, after throwing a heavy shower of bombs...whole line received their approach — more could not have been expected from veterans inured to war. — For an hour, the fire of tjje small arms was as... | |
 | Samuel R. Brown - United States - 1815 - 382 pages
...Patterson. In my encampment every thing was ready for action,. when, early on the morn ing of the 8th, the enemy after throwing a heavy shower of bombs and...whole line received their approach, more could not have been expected from veterans inured to war. For an hour the fire of the small arms was as incessant... | |
 | Arsène Lacarrière Latour - New Orleans, Battle of, New Orleans, La., 1815 - 1816 - 490 pages
...Patterson. In my encampment every thing was ready for action, when cafly on the morning of the 8th the enemy, after throwing a heavy shower of bombs...advanced their columns on my right and left, to storm my intrenchments. I cannot speak sufficiently in praise of the firmness and deliberation with which my... | |
 | Thomas H. Palmer - United States - 1816 - 518 pages
...repel it when it should be made, and to defeat the object in view. Early in the morning of the 8th, the enemy, after throwing a heavy shower of bombs and Congreve rockets, advanced their columns on the right and left to storm the entrenchments on the left bank of the Mississippi, throwing over a... | |
 | Thomas H. Palmer - United States - 1816 - 516 pages
...when, early on the morning of the 8th, the enemy, after throwing a heavy shower of bombs and congreyf rockets, advanced their columns on my right and left, to storm my entreni hments. I cannot speak sufficiently in praise of the firmness and deliberation with which my... | |
 | Heman Allen Fay - United States - 1817 - 294 pages
...Patterson. In my encampment, every thing was ready for action — when, early on the morning of the 8th, the enemy, after throwing a heavy shower of bombs...advanced their columns on my right and left, to storm my intrenchments. I cannot speak sufficiently in praise of the firmness, and deliberation, with which... | |
 | Thomas Wilson - United States - 1817 - 344 pages
...Congreve rockets, advanced their columns at my right and left, to storm my intre»chments. I cannot spoak sufficiently in praise of the firmness and deliberation...whole line received their approach. More could not have been expected from veterans inured to war. For an hour, the hre of small arms was as incessant... | |
 | William James - United States - 1818 - 616 pages
...Patterson. In my encampment every thing was ready for action, when early on the morning of the 8th the enemy, after throwing a heavy shower of bombs...advanced their columns on my right and left, to storm my intrcnchments. I cannot speak sufficiently in praise of the firmness and deliberation with which my... | |
 | Thomas Wilson - United States - 1819 - 344 pages
...bombs and Congreve rockets, advanced their columns at my right and left, to storm my intrenchments. I cannot speak sufficiently in praise of the firmness...whole line received their approach. More could not have been expected from veterans inured to war. For an hour, the fire of small arms was as incessant... | |
 | Thomas Wilson - Military biography - 1821 - 350 pages
...bombs as Congreve rockets, advanced their columns at a right and left, to storm my intrench ments. -cannot speak sufficiently in praise of the firmness...my whole line received their approach. More could n<ft have been expected from veterans inured to war. For an hour, the fire of small arms was as incessant... | |
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I cannot speak sufficiently in praise of the firmness and deliberation with which my whole line received their approach — more could not have been expected from veterans inured to war. 
