 | 1795 - 892 pages
...to advance and fupport the firft, and directed the firft line to charge with trailed armg and roufe the Indians from their coverts at the point of the bayonet, and when up to deliver a clofe and well direiled fire upon their backs, followed by a briflt charge, fo as not to allajv them... | |
 | James Hall - 1836 - 340 pages
...for the second line to advance, to support the first, and directed Major General Scott to gain and turn the right flank of the savages, with the whole...the same time I ordered the front line to advance with trailed arms, and rouse the Indians from their coverts at the point of the bayonet ; and, when... | |
 | Isaac Rand Jackson - Campaign literature, 1840 - 1840 - 234 pages
...orders for the second line to advance, to support the first, and directed Major General Scott to gam and turn the right flank of the savages, with the whole...the same time I ordered the front line to advance with trailed arms, and rouse the Indians from their coverts at the point of the bayonet; and, when... | |
 | Samuel Jones Burr - 1840 - 316 pages
...for the second line to advance, to sunnort th* first, and directed Major General SCOTT to gain and turn the right flank of the savages, with the whole...the same time I ordered the front line to advance with trailed arms and rouse the Indians from their coverts at the point of the bayonet ; and when up,... | |
 | Samuel Jones Burr - Biography & Autobiography - 1840 - 320 pages
...to advance, to support the first, and directed Major General SCOTT to gain and turn the right flunk of the savages, with the whole of the mounted volunteers,...the same time I ordered the front line to advance with trailed arms and rouse the Indiana from their coverts •at the point of the bayonet ; and when... | |
 | Charles Cist - Cincinnati (Ohio) - 1841 - 428 pages
...endeavoring to turn the left flank of the American army. The second line, therefore, was ordered to advance with trailed arms, and rouse the Indians from their coverts, at the point of the bayonet, and as soon as that was effected, to deliver a close fire upon their backs, followed by a brisk charge,... | |
 | James Handasyd Perkins - Indians of North America - 1846 - 632 pages
...for the second line to advance and support (he first ; and directed Major General Scott to gain and turn the right flank of the savages, with the whole...arms, and rouse the Indians from their coverts at (he point of the bayonet, and when up to deliver a close and well directed fiie on their backs, followed... | |
 | Henry Trumbull - America - 1846 - 354 pages
...orders for the second line to advance to support the first, and directed Major General Scott to gain and turn the right flank of the < savages, with the whole...with trailed arms, and rouse the Indians from their covert at the point of the bayonet, and when up to deliver a close and well-directed fire on their... | |
 | Israel Daniel Rupp - Indians of North America - 1846 - 814 pages
...his second line to advance to the supportof the first, nnd directed Major General Scott to gain and turn the right flank of the savages, with the whole...volunteers by a circuitous route. At the same time he ordered Captain Campbell, who commanded the cavalry belonging to the regular army to turn the left... | |
 | Israel Daniel Rupp - Indians of North America - 1848 - 782 pages
...his second line to advance to the support of the first, and directed M.ijor General Scott to gain and turn the right flank of the savages, with the whole...volunteers by a circuitous route. At the same time he ordered Captain Campbell, who commanded the cavalry belonging to the regular army to turn the left... | |
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... extent of their lines, that the enemy were in full force in front, in possession of their favorite ground and endeavoring to turn our left flank. I therefore gave orders for the second line to advance and support the first, and directed Major General... 
