The Historic Mansions And Buildings of Philadelphia : With Some Notice of Their Owners And Occupants
The Historic Mansions And Buildings of Philadelphia : With Some Notice of Their Owners And Occupants
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de Mauduit, but the officer who wished to take him. After these slight mistakes and this little quarrel the difficulty was for him to retire. On one hand, he must be exposed to a smart fire from the first and second floor; on the other, part of the American army were spectators, and it would have been ridiculous to return running. M. de Mauduit, like a true French- man, chose rather to expose himself to death than ridicule, but the balls respected our prejudices ; he returned safe and sound, an...d Mr.
Laurens, who was in no greater haste than he, escaped with a slight wound in his shoulder. I must not here omit a circumstance which proves the precarious tenure of a military existence. General Wash- ington thought that on summoning the commander of this post he would readily surrender ; it was proposed to M. de Mauduit to take a drum with him and make this proposal ; but on his observing that he spoke bad English, and might not, perhaps, be understood, an American officer was sent, who, being preceded by a drum and dis- playing a white handkerchief, it was imagined would not incur the smallest risque; but the English answered this officer only by a musquet-shot, and killed him on the spot." In describing the effect of the attack made upon Chew's House by the Americans, General Wilkinson (Memoirs of my Own Time) says : " The doors and shutters of the lower windows of the mansion were shut and fastened, the fire of the enemy being delivered from the iron gratings of the cellars and the windows above, and it was closely beset on all sides with small-arms and artillery, as is manifest from the mul- tiplicity of traces still visible from musket-ball and grape-shot on the interior walls and ceilings, which appear to have entered through the doors and windows in every direction ; marks of cannon-ball are also visible in several places on the exterior of the wall and through the roof, though one ball only appears to have penetrated below the roof, and that by a window in the passage of the second story.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
de Mauduit, but the officer who wished to take him. After these slight mistakes and this little quarrel the difficulty was for him to retire. On one hand, he must be exposed to a smart fire from the first and second floor; on the other, part of the American army were spectators, and it would have been ridiculous to return running. M. de Mauduit, like a true French- man, chose rather to expose himself to death than ridicule, but the balls respected our prejudices ; he returned safe and sound, an...d Mr.
Laurens, who was in no greater haste than he, escaped with a slight wound in his shoulder. I must not here omit a circumstance which proves the precarious tenure of a military existence. General Wash- ington thought that on summoning the commander of this post he would readily surrender ; it was proposed to M. de Mauduit to take a drum with him and make this proposal ; but on his observing that he spoke bad English, and might not, perhaps, be understood, an American officer was sent, who, being preceded by a drum and dis- playing a white handkerchief, it was imagined would not incur the smallest risque; but the English answered this officer only by a musquet-shot, and killed him on the spot." In describing the effect of the attack made upon Chew's House by the Americans, General Wilkinson (Memoirs of my Own Time) says : " The doors and shutters of the lower windows of the mansion were shut and fastened, the fire of the enemy being delivered from the iron gratings of the cellars and the windows above, and it was closely beset on all sides with small-arms and artillery, as is manifest from the mul- tiplicity of traces still visible from musket-ball and grape-shot on the interior walls and ceilings, which appear to have entered through the doors and windows in every direction ; marks of cannon-ball are also visible in several places on the exterior of the wall and through the roof, though one ball only appears to have penetrated below the roof, and that by a window in the passage of the second story.
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