 | Mary Mostert - Political Science - 2004 - 230 pages
...from fatigue duty on Sundays (except at the Ship Yards, or special occasions) until further orders. "The General is sorry to be informed that the foolish,...the officers will, by example, as well as influence, endeavor to check it, 181 General Washington General Orders to his troops, July 9, 1776 http://etext.lib.virqinia.edu/e... | |
 | James H. Hutson - Reference - 2009 - 288 pages
...1820. Adams, Jefferson's Extracts, 393. Proclamations: see Fast and Thanksgiving Days * Profanity * The General is sorry to be informed that the foolish,...heretofore little known in an American Army) is growing 28 Michael Servetus (1511-1553), Spanish theologian, whose antiTrinitarian views led to his being burned... | |
 | Washington Irving - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 417 pages
...from fatigue duty on Sundays, except at the ship-yards, or on special occasions, until further orders. The general is sorry to be informed, that the foolish...wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing, a yjce heretofore little known in an American army, is growing into fashion. He hopes the officers will,... | |
 | James Rees, Stephen J. Spignesi - Business & Economics - 2011 - 253 pages
...was banned among his soldiers! On August 3, 1 776, Washington issued a General Order, which stated: The General is sorry to be informed that the foolish...the officers will, by example as well as influence, endeavor to check it, and that both they and the men will reflect, that we can have little hope of... | |
 | 1917 - 808 pages
...meet again. When He comes. —Christian Advocate. 'GENERAL ORDER Issued by General GeorgeAX&shington ; The General is sorry to be informed that the foolish...the officers will, by example as well as influence, endeavor to check it, and that both they and the men will reflect, that we can have little hope of... | |
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The general is sorry to be informed, that the foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing, a vice heretofore little known in an American army, is growing into fashion. He hopes the officers will, by example as well as influence, endeavor... 
