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I don't know that I can give him higher praise than that." On their arrival in the valley, they found that another courier had returned, half an hour before. Both despatches expressed the commander-in-chief's extreme satisfaction with the manner in which Terence had carried out his instructions.
Atwood?" exclaimed Sir Gervaise, for the little excitement had brought the secretary up from the commander-in-chief's cabin; "what is Blewet at! The fellow cannot mean to set a studding-sail!" "He is running out a boom, nevertheless, Sir Gervaise, or my thirty years' experience of nautical things have been thrown away."
Having made up his mind to give battle on the 14th, at daybreak, he sent word to the English general, Lockhart, by one of his officers who wanted at the same time to explain the commander-in-chief's plan and his grounds for it.
As Franklin said, when the news was announced that Howe had captured Philadelphia, "No, Philadelphia has captured Howe." The problem of the Revolution was not one of military strategy, but of keeping an army in existence, and it was in this that the commander-in-chief's great ability showed itself.
For succinctness it would be difficult to improve upon the Commander-in-Chief's own description of his Official Entry into Jerusalem.
YOUR BASTION has thrown a round shot into the commander-in-chief's tent." The colonel did not appear so staggered as the aide-de-camp expected. "Ah, indeed!" said he quietly. "I observed they were trying distances." "Must not happen again, colonel. You must drive them from the gun." "How?" "Why, where is the difficulty?"
On 19th October six ships were ordered 'to go ahead during the night'; and, besides the frigates, two more ships were so stationed as to keep up the communication between the six and the commander-in-chief's flag-ship. Thus eight ships in effect composed an 'advance squadron, and did not join either of the main divisions at first.
And then the conversation changed, upon the weather, the hard winter, the prospects of the Cause, a criticism upon the commander-in-chief's management of affairs, the attitude of Congress, etc., between Mr. Blossom and the count; characterized, I hardly need say, by that positiveness of opinion that distinguishes the unprofessional.
But the roads were in so bad a condition, and the French troops had been so severely tried, and were so ill-provided for, that several of the commander-in-chief's instructions could not be carried out. Jouffroy at least did his best, and after a hard and tiring march from Grand Luce, a part of his division reached Parigne in time to join in the action fought there.
A day later they surrendered: the Orange Free State Rebellion, in all its futility, was over. Just before and during the Commander-in-Chief's long trek, other bodies of loyalist troops had been engaging the rebels. Both these actions took place in the neighbourhood of Pretoria. As a result of them and the death of Beyers in the Vaal River, the Rebellion in the Transvaal was virtually smashed.
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