 | James E. Seaver - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 320 pages
...stated the real loss they had sustained in the engagement. The mourning was excessive, and was expressed by the most doleful yells, shrieks, and howlings, and by inimitable gesticulations. During the Revolution, my house was the home of Colonels Butler and Brandt, whenever they chanced to... | |
 | Governor Blacksnake - History - 2005 - 344 pages
...stated the real loss they had sustained in the engagement. The mourning was excessive, and was expressed by the most doleful yells, shrieks, and howlings, and by inimitable gesticulations” (Seaver 1814:77). The Senecas had endured what was perhaps the bloodiest fight of the Revolution. They... | |
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the most doleful yells, shrieks and howlings, and by inimitable gesticulations." Terrible as was this blow to both, neither party as yet gave up. The Americans knew the lightness of the English guns and refused to surrender; St Leger dared not risk an... 
