Braddock accepted Washington's unwise advice that he divide his army, leaving half of it to come up with the slow wagons and cattle train and taking the other half forward against Fort Duquesne at a rapid pace.
The only means of transporting wealth out of the Alder Gulch gold fields was via horseback or slow moving wagons and stagecoaches on a limited number of trails and primitive roads leading south and west to Salt Lake City and San Francisco or east to Minnesota.
We took two cars on our outings: Maple Bar was Clyde's, because of its shape and color, and my sister and I drove Blue Streak, a sarcastic name for our slow 1978 Honda Civic wagon.
Dad slowed the station wagon to around 20 miles per hour when we got stuck behind one of the local farm workers driving a truck.
A man in bicycle shorts went by, leading a Newfoundland; there was a rollerblader, a very old and slow woman pulling a wagon full of groceries, a Federal Express delivery to the house next door, and then it was time to rouse Olivia all over again and go for it.
The BB10 platform is still as vaporous as Chris Smith's ethereal guitar and the platform is as slow to market as 'Wagon tribute bands are quick to sell out State Fairs.
Visitors can travel among Hiddensee's four villages -- Vitte, Grieben, Kloster and Neuendorf -- on cartoonishly slow horse-drawn covered wagons or on one vaguely sad-looking bus that traverses the island on weekdays.
Against the advice of his Master of Ordnance, Percy had left Boston without spare ammunition for his men or for the two artillery pieces they brought with them, thinking the extra wagons would slow him down.
Slowed by heavy wagons carrying supplies and siege machinery, the Byzantines failed to prevent the Turks from devastating the countryside through which they marched.
The company insisted that after a slow start, its Pacifica station wagon had gained a foothold in the market.
