| Aaron Bancroft - 1807 - 576 pages
...contained the following paragraph. " In a letter from General Conway to General Gates, he says,- ' heaven has been determined to save your country ;...weak General and bad Counsellors would have ruined it ; I am, sir, Sec.' " Neither the letter, nor the information which occasioned it, was ever directly,... | |
| Aaron Bancroft - 1808 - 604 pages
...contained the following paragraph : " In a letter from General Conway to General Gates, he says, ' Heaven has been determined to save your country, or...general and bad counsellors would have ruined it; I am, sir, &c.' " Neither the letter, nor the information'which occasioned it, was ever directly, or... | |
| Aaron Bancroft - 1808 - 584 pages
...lever understood, informed his aid-de-camp, Major M 'Williams, Jhat General Conway had written thus to you, ' Heaven has been determined to save your...country,, or a weak general and bad counsellors would have mined it.' Lord Sterling, from motives of friendship, transmitted the account with this remark. ' The... | |
| Henry Lee - Southern States - 1812 - 444 pages
...contained the following paragraph: ' in a letter from 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 sir, &c." Neither the letter nor the information which occasioned it was ever, directly or indirectly,... | |
| John Sanderson - United States - 1827 - 388 pages
...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... | |
| Literature - 1823 - 120 pages
...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 - United States - 1824 - 364 pages
...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... | |
| France - 1825 - 464 pages
...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... | |
| United States - 1825 - 472 pages
...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... | |
| Amos Blanchard (of Cincinnati.), Amos Blanchard - United States - 1825 - 464 pages
...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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