 | Tobias Smollett - 1760 - 498 trang
...abruptly, with a fteep afcent from the banks of the river, that they might take pofleffion of the ground on the back of the city, where it was but indifferently...and difficulties attending the execution of this- defign were (b peculiarly difcouraging, "that one would imagine it could not have been embraced but... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1804 - 544 trang
...abruptly with a fleep afcent from the banks of the river, that they might take pofleffion of the ground on the back of the city, where it was but indifferently...dangers and difficulties attending the execution of this defign were fo peculiarly difcouraging, that one would imagine it could not have been embraced but... | |
 | David Hume - 1810 - 576 trang
...with a sti ep ascent from the banks of the river, that they might take possession of the ground on the back of the city, where it was but indifferently...one would imagine it could not have been embraced bui by a spirit of enterprise that bordered on desperation. The stream was rapid ; the shore shelving;... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1810 - 580 trang
...abruptly with a sttep ascent from the banks of the river, that they might take possession of the ground on the back of the city, where it was but indifferently...dangers and difficulties attending the execution of thi» design were so peculiarly discouraging, that one would imagine it could not have been embraced... | |
 | Benjamin Trumbull - 1810 - 482 trang
...design, that it could scarcely have been adopted, but by a spirit of enterprise, bordering on despair. The stream was rapid, the shore shelving, the bank of the river lined with centinels, the landing place so narrow as easily to be missed in the dark ; and the ground so difficult... | |
 | Benjamin Trumbull - 1810 - 456 trang
...design, that it coujd scarcely have been adopted, but by a spirit of .enterprise, bordering on despair. The stream was rapid, the shore shelving, the bank of the river lioed with centinels, the landing place so narrow as easily to be missed, in the dark; and the ground... | |
 | Benjamin Trumbull - 1818 - 556 trang
...design, that it could scarcely have oeen adopted but by a spirit of enterprise bordering on despair. The stream was rapid, the shore shelving, the bank of the river lined with centinels, the landing place so narrow as easily to be missed in the dark ; and the ground so difficult... | |
 | Benjamin Trumbull - 1818 - 556 trang
...design, that it could scarcely have oeen adopted but by a spirit of enterprise bordering on despair. The stream was rapid, the shore shelving, the bank of the river lined with centinels, the landing place so narrow as easily to be missed in the dark ; and the ground so difficult... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1822 - 486 trang
...steep ascent from the banks of the river, that they might take possession of the ground on the hack of the city, where it was but indifferently fortified....; the bank of the river lined with sentinels ; the landing-place so narrow as to be easily missed in the dark ; and the ground so difficult as hardly... | |
 | David Hume - 1825 - 486 trang
...abruptly with a steep ascent from the banks of the river, that they might take possession of the ground on the back of the city, where it was but indifferently...shelving; the bank of the river lined with sentinels; the landing-place so narrow as to be easily missed in the dark ; and the ground so difficult as hardly... | |
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A plan was formed for conveying the troops farther down in boats, and landing them in the night within a league of Cape Diamond, in hopes of ascending the heights of Abraham, which rise abruptly with a steep ascent from the banks of the river, that they... 
