 | 1920 - 814 halaman
...Christmas he wrote to the President of Congress: Unless some great and capital change suddenly takes place this army must inevitably be reduced to one or other...to obtain subsistence in the best manner they can. Rest assured, Sir. this is not an exaggerated picture, and that I have abundant reason to suppose what... | |
 | Lee P. Anderson - 2002 - 380 halaman
...single hoof of any kind to slaughter and not more than twenty-five barrels of flour remaining in camp. Unless some great and capital change suddenly takes...to obtain subsistence in the best manner they can." Salted pork and beef was almost as scarce as fresh meat. The shortness of these commodities was supplemented... | |
 | Raymond C. Houghton - 2004 - 158 halaman
...despaired "that unless some great and capital change suddenly takes place ... this Army must inevitably ... Starve, dissolve, or disperse, in order to obtain subsistence in the best manner they can." Animals fared no better. Gen. Log City Following their arrival December 18, 1777, the men immediately... | |
 | Brenda Haugen - 2005 - 120 halaman
...great and capital change suddenly takes place, this army must inevitably be reduced to one or other o/ these three things. Starve, dissolve or disperse,...to obtain subsistence in the best manner they can. As the men starved, so did their horses. More than 1,500 horses died and lay strewn on the ground.... | |
 | Jeff Broadwater - 2009 - 352 halaman
...Washington would write Henry Laurens of South Carolina that, unless its supply system could be reformed, "this Army must inevitably be reduced to one or other...order to obtain subsistence in the best manner they can."36 Mason served as floor manager for a bill authorizing the governor to appoint commissioners... | |
 | James R. Gaines - 2007 - 580 halaman
...and otherwise naked." If provisions were not soon forthcoming, he was convinced "beyond a doubt" that "this Army must inevitably be reduced to one or other...to obtain subsistence in the best manner they can." Washington's Christmas dinner for his generals and aides that year was suitably and necessarily spartan... | |
 | 1973 - 834 halaman
...great and capital change takes place . . . this Army inevitably will be reduced to one or the other of three things. Starve, dissolve or disperse, in order...to obtain subsistence in the best manner they can . . ." Congress was at a loss as what to do. The Army in winter quarters at Valley Forge was starving,... | |
 | 397 halaman
...a doubt, that unless some great and capital change suddenly takes place, this army must inevitably starve, dissolve, or disperse in order to obtain subsistence in the best manner possible (3:59). In the spring of 1778, Congress again reorganized the Commissary Department. It still... | |
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I am now convinced beyond a doubt, that, unless some great and capital change suddenly takes place in that line, this army must inevitably be reduced to one or other of these three things ; starve, dissolve, or disperse in order to obtain subsistence... 
