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" Howe gazed at the mushroom fortress with astonishment, as it loomed indistinctly, but grandly, through a morning fog. " The rebels," exclaimed he, " have done more work in one night, than my whole army would have done in one month. "
America: A History - Pagina 93
de Robert Mackenzie - 1882 - 564 pagini
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Discourses, addresses and memoir

Robert Cassie Waterston - 1893 - 702 pagini
...shadowy hope that it might all prove a delusion. ' These rebels have accomplished,' he exclaimed, ' more in one night than my whole army would have done in a month.' And what a position ! commanding both the harbor and the town. Startled and confounded, the British general...
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History of the Siege of Boston, and of the Battles of Lexington, Concord ...

Richard Frothingham - 1851 - 460 pagini
...and that loomed with so threatening an aspect in the haze of early dawn. " The rebels have done more in one night than my whole army would have done in a month," is said to have been General Howe's remark. " It must have been the employment of at least twelve thousand...
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The Pictorial Field-book of the Revolution ; Or, Illustrations ..., Volumul 2

Benson John Lossing - 1852 - 948 pagini
...Howe, overwhelmed with astonishment, exclaimed, " I know not what I shall do. The rebels have done more adopt the most effectual measures in their power to render They had done more than merely raise embankments ; cannons were placed upon them, and they now completely...
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Life of George Washington, Volumul 2

Washington Irving - 1855 - 554 pagini
...astonishment, as it loomed indistinctly, but grandly, through a morning fog. " The rebels," exclaimed he, " have done more work in one night, than my whole army would have done in one month." Washington had watched, with intense anxiety, the effect of the revelation at daybreak....
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History of South Boston: Formerly Dorchester Neck, Now Ward XII of the City ...

Thomas C. Simonds - 1857 - 354 pagini
...Gen. Howe, when he saw the forts, exclaimed, " I know not what I shall do. The rebels have done more in one night than my whole army would have done in a month." " It must have been the employment of at least twelve thousand men," he wrote to Lord Dartmouth. It...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volumul 36

1875 - 782 pagini
...heights covered with works which commanded the town and harbor of Boston. " The rebels have done more in one night than my whole army would have done in a month." " They were raised with an expedition equal to that of the genii belonging to Aladdin's Wonderful Lamp."...
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Eulogy on the Life and Character of Rev. Zachariah Greene: A Patriot of the ...

John Ordronaux - 1859 - 66 pagini
...said to have exclaimed almost despairingly, " I know not what I shall do. The rebels have done more in one night than my whole army would have done in a month." It was indeed a moment of great peril with the British. They were surrounded on all sides but one,...
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History of the Town of Dorchester, Massachusetts

Dorchester Antiquarian and Historical Society (Dorchester, Boston, Mass.) - 1859 - 746 pagini
...employment of at least twelve thousand men.' He is also reported to have said, " The rebels have done more in one night than my whole army would have done in a month." Dorchester Neck, in its topographical appearance, was very uneven, abounding in hills and valleys.*...
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Life of Bishop Bass, of Massachusetts

John Nicholas Norton - 1859 - 206 pagini
...with no little vexation at his own remissness, " I know not what I shall do. The rebels have done more in one night than my whole army would have done in a month." But it is not our purpose to write a history of the Revolution. We must go back now to a still earlier...
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The History of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut: Including East Windsor, South ...

Henry Reed Stiles - 1859 - 958 pagini
...was astounded and chagrined. " I know not what I shall do," he exclaimed, " the rebels have done more in one night than my whole army would have done in a mouth." The tables were indeed turned, the British army in the city and the fleet in the bay were in...
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