Scouts had brought warning of his approach; and Callieres, the local governor, crossed the St. Lawrence, and encamped at La Prairie with seven or eight hundred men.
In fact, Callieres had arrived with seven or eight hundred men, many of them regulars.
There were seven or eight hundred of them in the town, the rest being in garrison at the various forts.
Where are the seven or eight hundred a year I married you for?
The fools were not likely to proceed in this manner till the conclusion of the first day: their senseless avidity made them think nothing of battles and a march of eight hundred leagues.
All day long my voters had to submit to insults and assaults, committed upon them by the bludgeon-men, who had increased their numbers to eight hundred.
The bludgeon men of Davis had been increased to eight hundred; each bludgeon being heavy enough to knock down an ox, they being, as I have before stated, six feet prong staves sawn off in three lengths, about two feet each.
La Rochefoucauld, with a corps of cavalry consisting of eight hundred men, formed from the nobility of Saintonge, he found himself sufficiently strong to undertake such a plan.
I should, afterwards, have been able to give him an income of eight hundred louis a year, perhaps the place of master of the chapel.
For the first week of August, eight hundred of his men are digging trenches by night to avoid giving target for the fiery bombs whizzing through the dark from Monro's cannon.
Those {182} are the coureurs de bois from Montreal and the bushrovers of the Pays d'en Haut, eight hundred strong.
The Archbishop of Manila, who was also governor-general of the island, collected and armed some ten thousand natives, as a reinforcement to the Spanish garrison of eight hundred.
And their brethren that do the works of the temple: eight hundred twenty-two.
And Jared lived after he begot Henoch, eight hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.
Culpepper, notwithstanding the impoverished condition of the colony, contrived to enlarge his salary from one thousand pounds to upwards of two thousand, besides perquisites amounting to eight hundred more.
There came yearly to trade above thirty vessels, navigated by seven or eight hundred men.
The committee of safety despatched Woodford with his regiment and two hundred minute-men, amounting in all to eight hundred men, with orders to cross the James River at Sandy Point and go in pursuit of Dunmore.
Was it not madness for the stadholder, at the head of eight hundred horsemen, to assail such an army as this?
Here they paused and received re-enforcements from the garrison, raising their numbers to eight hundred, who continued to follow, by water and by land, until the 11th.
These raised to twenty-two hundred the garrison previously estimated at seven to eight hundred.
The column rises, gradually tapering until it reaches a height of eight hundred feet.
The native copper boulder discovered by the traveler Henry in the bed of the Ontonagon river, and now in Washington, originally weighed thirty-eight hundred pounds.
Completely deceived, the townspeople allowed the landing of eight hundred Janissaries.
In consequence he gave Barbarossa eighty galleys, eight hundred Janissaries, eight thousand Turkish soldiers, and eight hundred thousand ducats for expenses (some three hundred thousand pounds sterling of our money).
Frightened at what they had done, and incited perhaps by other causes, the Montagnais and their kindred bands mustered at Three Rivers to the number of eight hundred, resolved to destroy the French.
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