Scarcely had Bouquet sent off the express-rider with this letter, when another came from Ecuyer with worse reports from the west.
Three or four days after, Ecuyer wrote in French to his colonel, "They were all well under cover, and so were we.
To this proposal, by which the Indians hoped to gain a safe and easy possession of the fort, Captain Ecuyer made the following reply.
To the not wholly unreasonable statement of wrongs contained in this speech, Captain Ecuyer replied, by urging the shallow pretence that the forts were built for the purpose of supplying the Indians with clothes and ammunition.
Gray informed Captain Ecuyer that, a few days before the attack on the garrison, they had seen a schooner on the lake, approaching from the westward.
I see," writes Ecuyer to his colonel, "that the affair is general.
They liked the sport, and were eager to sally from behind their defences, and bring their assailants to close quarters; but Ecuyer was too wise to consent.
Lodovico Sforza's court, he lived to become Grand Ecuyer of France in the next century.
The Grand Ecuyer boldly asserted his right to Castel Novo, which Louis XII.
He begged Ecuyer to withdraw the inmates of the fort while there was yet time.
All this Turtle's Heart told Ecuyer out of 'love for the British.
Soon after their departure word was brought to Ecuyer of the murder of some traders and settlers not far from the fort.
Ecuyer replied that he would never abandon his position 'as long as a white man lives in America.
The shrieking balls and the wild war-whoops of the assailants greatly alarmed the women and children; but never for a moment was the fort in real danger or did Ecuyer or his men fear disaster.
Ecuyer selected a spot where the smoke of the muskets was thickest, and threw shells from his howitzers into the midst of the warriors, scattering them in hurried flight.
On the fourth day of May, Ecuyer had written to Colonel Henry Bouquet, who was stationed at Philadelphia, saying that he had received word from Gladwyn that he 'was surrounded by rascals.
Next morning gallant Ecuyer was watching the woodland through a glass, when several painted warriors strode from the shade of the trees to the ditch beyond the palisades.
The redskins were well under cover and so were we," wrote the gallant Ecuyer to Sir Geoffrey Amherst.
Ecuyer ran among his men, exhorting them to do their best, and himself firing a rifle from the ramparts at the screeching savages.
But, although listening to them with respect, Ecuyer was not to be frightened by savage bravado.
His Prussian Majesty's Person so exposed that one trembles: his Horse shot, and a Page and Ecuyer wounded by his side.
It was refused and Ecuyer told the savages that if they again showed themselves near the Fort he would throw "bombshells" among them and "blow them to atoms.
Ecuyer displayed equal bravado and replied that several thousand British soldiers were on the way to punish the tribes for their uprising.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ecuyer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
