Battle Of Cowpens Quotes & Sayings

If it had been touch, it might have been pressure-not an uncomfortable pressure, but one that swept away all the pain of her headache. Like a river rushing through her mind, clearing out everything stagnant and clotted and decayed. — L.J.Smith

My books cover many aspects of daily life through which your children will recognize their own relationships in their families and communities. — Patricia Polacco

I think that when you write for stars, I think that you have to be very specific about what they do beautifully and let them bring it to life. — Jason Robert Brown

If you saved yourself, you might also save those around you, those you loved. And since you would do anything in the world to save those you loved, you did anything in the world to save yourself. And because there was no choice, equally there was no possibility of avoiding moral corruption. - — Julian Barnes

Seldom has a battle, in which greater numbers were
not engaged, been so important in its consequences as that of Cowpens. — John Marshall

The failure of emancipation to take root during the war is one of the great What ifs of the Revolution. Another is: What if blacks had not fought for the American cause? What if a slave had not saved Colonel William Washington's life, with the result that his cavalry charge dissolved and the Battle of Cowpens had become a British victory? As the historian Thomas Fleming speculates, both North and South Carolina might well have gone over to the British. What if Glover's regiment of Massachusetts sailors had not had the manpower to complete the evacuation of Washington's army before the fog lifted in New York - and Washington himself, waiting for the last boat, had been captured? * — Henry Wiencek

Until we respect bin Laden, we are going to die in numbers that are probably unnecessary. — Michael Scheuer