Remarkable Adventurers and Unrevealed Mysteries, Band 1Richard Bentley, 1863 |
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Seite 198 - Congress would not endorse the agreements made with the foreign officers, but thanked them and paid them the travelling expenses which they claimed. Kalb was just on the point of returning to Europe, and was staying with some Herrnhut countrymen at Bethlehem, when a messenger from Congress arrived with the news that on the very day of his departure he had been nominated major-general On hearing this he returned...
Seite 327 - ... All I have announced will take place when reason is the sole ruler, and has its temples." "In any case," Chamfort retorted, " you will not be one of the priests of that temple." " Not I, M. de Chamfort, but you assuredly will, for you deserve to be chosen before all for such functions. For all that, you will open your veins in two-and-twenty places with a razor, and will not die till some months after that desperate operation. As for you, M. Vicq d'Azyr, it is true that the gout will prevent...
Seite 195 - ... foreign regiments, which they possessed of all nations, because they saw in them a protection against their own people in case of need. The idea of nationality was not known at that period ; the omnipotent state destroyed all national distinctions, and hence it came that the nobility of all countries flocked to France, while the French nobles, in their turn, entered the service of all the princes of Europe. Kalb, therefore, only followed a long existing practice when he proceeded to a country...
Seite 206 - ... musketry. Kalb was fighting at the head of the second Maryland brigade : he had advanced three times, and been driven back again by the numerical superiority of the enemy ; but, for all that, he still had the vantage. His horse had been shot under him, and he had been wounded in the head by a saber-cut. Jarquette, the adjutant of the Delaware regiment, bound up the wound as well as he could with his scarf, and implored his General to retire from the battle-field. Kalb, however, instead of paying...
Seite 193 - ... and, as a true son of the age, assumed noble birth to facilitate his advancement. When Kalb was born, the principality of Brandenburg-Baireuth, with its one hundred thousand inhabitants, had the honor of calling as its lord the Margrave George William, who drew an income of half a million of florins out of the poor little country. The subject had in those days few other privileges than the good pleasure of his seigneur conceded him, and the man only commenced with the baron. The last Margrave...
Seite 204 - American center and left wing, that is to say, two thirds of their strength, had disappeared almost before a shot was fired. About four hundred of Dixon's regiment were the only men who held their ground a little longer, and fired a couple of rounds at the enemy. Gates, who had taken up his position about six hundred feet behind the line of battle, in order to watch the course of the action, was carried away in the flight of the militia, and under the pretext of " bringing the villains back into...
Seite 201 - Kalb was entrusted with the formation of the line. He himself commanded the right wing, composed of the second Maryland brigade under General Gist, and the Delaware regiment, and, like the English left wing, it was protected on its right flank by a deep swamp.
Seite 198 - ... order to proceed to the north by land. At Philadelphia, after the president of the Congress had received them most coldly, the head of the committee for foreign affairs explained to them that the Congress refused to sanction the engagements entered into by Deane, as he had exceeded his full powers ; he had no authority to fill the highest ranks of the army with men of his own choice, and the native generals had threatened to retire in the event of such an encroachment on their well-earned rights....
Seite 195 - the virtuous vice," Lady Craven, the mistress and future wife of Charles Alexander, last Margrave of Anspach-Baireuth, who surrendered his country to Prussia. Kalb, then, left betimes his fatherland with all its glories, and went to France, where, once he had entered the army, the same advantages and promotion were secured to him as to natives ; for, although the Bourbons were despots of the worst breed, they understood how to employ profitably any available strength that devoted itself to them,...
Seite 196 - France, entertained a lively wish, in 1767, to make advantage of the disputes of England with her American colonies to humiliate the former country, but for this purpose required an accurate knowledge of the temper of the Americans, Kalb was selected to undertake a secret mission across the Atlantic. Probably it was the special interest which an examination of the state of affairs aroused in him, that induced him, in 1776, to accept the office of the American agent, Silas Deane, to enter the service...