 We are upon an Engagement very difficult. The Enemy hath blocked up our way at the Pass at Copperspath, through which we cannot get without almost a miracle. He lieth so upon the Hills that we know not how to come that way without great difficulty; and...  Miscellanies - Page 140by J. T. Headley - 1850 - 298 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - Great Britain - 1883 - 310 pages
...enemy hath blocked up our way at the Pass at Copperspath, through which we cannot go without almost a miracle. He lieth so upon the hills that we know...perceive your forces are not in a capacity for present release. Wherefore, whatever becomes of us, it will be well for you to get what forces you can together... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1883 - 272 pages
...enemy hath blocked up our way at the Pass at Copperspath, through which we can not go without almost a miracle. He lieth so upon the hills that we know...perceive your forces are not in a capacity for present release. Wherefore, whatever becomes of us, it will be well for you to get what forces you can together... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1883 - 298 pages
...our way at the Pass at Copf perspath, through which we cannot go without almost a miracle. He Ireth so upon the hills that we know not how to come that...perceive your forces are not in a capacity for present. release. Wherefore, whatever becomes of us, it will be well for you to get what^ forces you can together... | |
 | George Alfred Henty - Civil war - 1883 - 452 pages
...almost a miracle. He lieth so upon the hills that we knoweth not how to come that way without much difficulty, and our lying here daily consumeth our men, who fall sick beyond imagination.' The Scotch had, in fact, the game in their hands, had they but waited on the ground they had taken... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - Great Britain - 1884 - 462 pages
...enemy hath blocked up our way at the Pass at Copperspath, through which we cannot go without almost a miracle. He lieth so upon the hills that we know...perceive your forces are not in a capacity for present release. Wherefore, whatever becomes of us, it will be well for you to get what forces you can together... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - Great Britain - 1886 - 406 pages
...difficult. The enemy have blocked up our way at the Pass, through which we cannot get without almost a miracle. He lieth so upon the hills that we know...fall sick beyond imagination.' . . . ' I perceive,' he continues, ' your forces are not in a capacity for present release. Wherefore, whatever becomes... | |
 | James Kendall Hosmer - 1888 - 644 pages
...at Copperspath, through which we cannot get without almost a miracle. I Jc liclh so upon the Mills that we know not how to come that way without great...fall sick beyond imagination. I perceive, your forces arc not in a capacity for present release. Wherefore, whatever becomes of us, it will be well for you... | |
 | Frederic Harrison - Great Britain - 1888 - 248 pages
...The enemy hath blocked up our way at the pass at Cockburnspath, through which we cannot get almost without a miracle. He lieth so upon the hills that...without great difficulty ; and our lying here daily consurneth our men, who fall sick beyond imagination." Then he warns the governor to provide against... | |
 | Robert Renwick - Peebles (Scotland) - 1892 - 294 pages
...way at the Pass at Copperspath, through which we cannot get without almost a miracle. He lietb во upon the hills that we know not how to come that way...without great difficulty; and our lying here daily ooneumeth our men, who fall sick beyond imagination." Thus dejectedly wrote Cromwell on the day before... | |
 | Oliver Cromwell - Great Britain - 1894 - 540 pages
...Enemy hath blocked-up our way at the Pass at Copperspath, through which we cannot get without almost a miracle. He lieth so upon the Hills that we know...perceive, your forces are not in a capacity for present release. Wherefore, whatever becomes of us, it will be well for you to get what forces you can together... | |
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