United States or Eswatini ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
As I came up with her, she said: "Why are the light dragoons riding on the Bedford road? Is aught amiss?" "A very large body of horse has passed our videttes, making toward Ridgefield. Colonel Sheldon thinks it must be Moylan's regiment." "Do you?" "It may be so." "And if it be the leather-caps?" "Then we must find ourselves in a sorry pickle."
It was ungenerous and disloyal of Roger B. Ridgefield to have taken himself out of the world in this abrupt fashion.
He studied the newspapers as he ate breakfast alone at the University Club early the next morning. The "Advertiser" had neatly divided its first page between the Honorable Roger B. Ridgefield, dead in a far country, and the Honorable Morton Bassett, who, it seemed, was very much alive at the Hoosier capital. A double column headline conveyed this intelligence:
Wooster came up with his rear about eleven in the morning, attacked it with great gallantry, and a sharp skirmish ensued, in which he was mortally wounded, and his troops were repulsed. Tryon then proceeded to Ridgefield, where he found Arnold already intrenched on a strong piece of ground, and prepared to dispute his passage. A warm skirmish ensued, which continued nearly an hour.
Word Of The Day