Sir ; A letter, which I received last night, contained the following paragraph; " In a letter from General Conway to General Gates he says, ' Heaven has been determined to save your country, or a weak General and bad counsellors would have ruined it. George Washington - Página 165por Norman Hapgood - 1901 - 419 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Aaron Bancroft - 1807 - 576 páginas
...understood, informed his Aid de camp, Major M'Williams, that General Conway had written thus to you ' Heaven has been determined to save your country, or...General and bad Counsellors would have ruined it.' Lord Sterling, from motives of friendship, transmitted the account with this remark. ' The enclosed... | |
| Aaron Bancroft - 1808 - 584 páginas
...that I was not unapprised of his intriguing disposition, I wrote him a letter in these words. " Sir, a letter which I received last night contained the...General Gates, he says, ' Heaven has been determined to eave your country, or a weak general and bad counsellors would have ruined it; I am, sir, &c.' " Neither... | |
| Aaron Bancroft - 1808 - 604 páginas
...understood, informed his aid-de-camp, Major M'Williams, that General Conway had written thus to you, ' Heaven has been determined to save your country, or...general and bad counsellors would have ruined it.' Lord Sterling, from motives of friendship, transmitted the account with this remark. ' The enclosed... | |
| Henry Lee - 1812 - 444 páginas
...that I was not unapprised of his intriguing disposition, I wrote him a letter in these words: " Sir, a letter which I received last night contained the...general Conway to general Gates he says, Heaven has determined to save your country; or a weak general and bad counsellors would have ruined it.' I am... | |
| John Sanderson - 1827 - 388 páginas
...pronounced by Washington to have been " a dangerous incendiary," in which the French officer observed, " heaven has been determined to save your country, or...general, and bad counsellors, would have ruined it." At the same time, the legislature of Pennsylvania, chagrined at losing its capital, remonstrated against... | |
| 1823 - 120 páginas
...malignant partisan." ' ' The offensive passage in Conway's letter to Gates, was this — Heaven has determined to save your country, or a weak General and bad Counsellors wauldhave ruinedit. . . . We are in possession of various communications, to prove, that the " weak... | |
| John Sanderson - 1824 - 364 páginas
...pronounced by Washington to have been " a dangerous incendiary," in which the French officer observed, " heaven has been determined to save your country, or...general, and bad counsellors, would have ruined it." At the same time, the legislature of Pennsylvania, chagrined at losing its capital, remonstrated against... | |
| 1825 - 472 páginas
...correspondence with General Gates on the subject, and in one of his letters, he thus expresses himself : — " Heaven has been determined to save your country, or...general and bad counsellors would have ruined it." He was himself at that time one of the counsellors, against whom he so basely in veighs. Envy and malice... | |
| 1825 - 464 páginas
...correspondence with General Gates on the subject, and in one of his letters, he thus expresses himself. " Heaven has been determined to save your country, or...General and bad counsellors would have ruined it." He was himself at that time, one of the counsellors, against whom he so basely inveighs. Envy and malice... | |
| Amos Blanchard (of Cincinnati.), Amos Blanchard - 1825 - 464 páginas
...General Gates on the subject, and in one of bis letters, he thus expresses himselft — " Heaven has becn determined to save your country, or a weak general and bad counsellors would have ruined it." He was himself at that time one of the counsellors, against whom he go basely inveighs. Envy and malice... | |
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