 | Charles Richard Tuttle - Indians of North America - 1874 - 638 pages
...were abandoned; but that was unavoidable, for not a horse was left alive to have drawn it off", had it otherwise been practicable. But the most disgraceful...pursuit, which continued about four miles, had ceased. St. Clair found the road strewed with them for many miles, but was not able to remedy it, for having... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - Northwest, Old - 1875 - 958 pages
...were abandoned. But that was unavoidable, as not a horse was left alive to have drawn it off, had it otherwise been practicable. " But the most disgraceful...greatest part of the men threw away their arms and accouterments, even after the pursuit, which continued about four miles, had ceased. I found the road... | |
 | John Brown Dillon - Law - 1879 - 826 pages
...were abandoned, but that was unavoidable; for not a horse was left alive to have drawn it off, had it otherwise been practicable. But, the most disgraceful...greatest part of the men threw away their arms and accouterments, even after the pursuit, which continued about four miles, had ceased. I found the road... | |
 | Samuel G. Drake - Indians of North America - 1880 - 800 pages
...were abandoned ; but that was unavoidable, for not a horse was left ulive to have drawn it on", had it otherwise been practicable. But the most disgraceful...business is, that the greatest part of the men threw nway their arms and accoutrements, even after the pursuit, which continued about four miles, had ceased.... | |
 | George Washington Manypenny - History - 1880 - 490 pages
...part of the business is, that the greatest part of the men threw away their arms and accouterments, even after the pursuit, which continued about four...miles, had ceased. I found the road strewed with them fiir many miles, but was not able to remedy it, for having had all my horses killed, and being mounted... | |
 | Arthur St. Clair, William Henry Smith - Generals - 1881 - 682 pages
...abandoned, but that was unavoidable ; for not a horse was left alive to have drawn them off had it otherwise been practicable. But the most disgraceful...greatest part of the men threw away their arms and accouterments, even after the pursuit, which continued about four miles, had ceased. I found the road... | |
 | Arthur St. Clair, William Henry Smith - Generals - 1882 - 678 pages
...of the men threw away their arms and accouterments, even after the pursuit, which continued al>out four miles, had ceased. I found the road strewed with...miles, but was not able to remedy it ; for, having had nil my horses killed, and being mounted upon one that could not be pricked out of a walk, I could not... | |
 | William Henry Perrin, J. H. Battle, G. C. Kniffin - Kentucky - 1888 - 1108 pages
...was left alive to have drawn it off, had it otherwise been practicable. But the most disgraceful pan of the business is, that the greatest part of the...accoutrements, even after the pursuit, which continued about fourmiles, had ceased. I found the road strewed with them for many miles, but was not able to remedy... | |
 | Henry Howe - Ohio - 1891 - 684 pages
...became a flight. The camp was abandoned, and so was the artillery, for the want of horses to remove it. The men threw away their arms and accoutrements, even after the pursuit had ceased, which was not continued for more than four miles. The road was almost covered with these... | |
 | Henry Howe - Ohio - 1891 - 690 pages
...became a flight. The camp was abandoned, and so was the artillery, for the want of horses to remove it. The men threw away their arms and accoutrements, even after the pursuit had ceased, which was not continued for more than four miles. The road was almost covered with these... | |
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The retreat in those circumstances was, you may be sure, a precipitate one ; it was, in fact, a flight. The camp and the artillery were abandoned ; but that was unavoidable, for not a horse was left alive to have drawn it off had it otherwise been practicable.... 
