| William Dunlap - Dutch - 1840 - 546 pages
...of a disclosure made of a paragraph in a letter from him to Gates, in which he says, " Hcarcu lins been determined to save your country, or a weak general and bad counsellors would have ruined it." France had secretly encouraged the discontent, and joyfully seen the rebellion of the subjects of her... | |
| William Dunlap - Dutch - 1840 - 554 pages
...consequence of a disclosure made of a paragraph in a letter from him to Gates, in which he says, " Heaven has been determined to save your country, or a weak general and bad counsellors vxiuld have ruined it." France had secretly encouraged the discontent, and joyfully seen the rebellion... | |
| John Frost - United States - 1844 - 260 pages
...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 a weak 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... | |
| John Sanderson, Robert Taylor Conrad - United States - 1846 - 900 pages
...twenty-fifth October, when General Conway's letter to General Gates, in which he said, "Heaven has been determined to save your country, or a weak general and bad counsellors would have destroyed it," was read, and the merits and demerits of General Washington in the battle of Brandywine... | |
| George Washington - United States - 1847 - 630 pages
...informed his aid-de-camp, Major JVIcWilliams, that General Conway had written this to you ; ' Heaven has been determined to save your country, or a weak General...motives of friendship, transmitted the account with thia remark ; ' The enclosed was communicated by Colonel Wilkinson to Major MeWilIiams ; such wicked... | |
| Aaron Bancroft - 1847 - 474 pages
...transmitted the account with this remark. ' The enclosed was communicated by ******** to Major M'Williams ; such wicked duplicity of conduct, I shall always think it my duty to detect." " In consequence of thi? information, and without having any thing more in view, than merely to show that gentleman that... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1847 - 560 pages
...McWilliams, an aid of Stirling, the following passage from a letter of Conway to Gates : — " Heaven has determined to save your country, or a weak general and bad counsellors would have ruined it." Major Me Williams considered it his duty to disclose this communication to Stirling, who in turn felt... | |
| William Alexander Duer - New Jersey - 1847 - 342 pages
...memorandum of the words from Conway's letter, as repeated to McWilliams by Wilkinson, as follows : " The enclosed was communicated by Colonel Wilkinson to Major McWilliams ; such wicked duplicity I shall always consider it my duty to detect." In consequence of this disclosure, and with no other... | |
| William Alexander Duer - New Jersey - 1847 - 312 pages
...memorandum of the words from Conway's letter, as repeated to McWilliams by Wilkinson, as follows : " The enclosed was communicated by Colonel Wilkinson to Major McWilliams ; such wicked duplicity I shall always consider it my duty to detect." In consequence of this disclosure, and with no other... | |
| William Alexander Duer - New Jersey - 1847 - 306 pages
...memorandum of the words from Conway's letter, as repeated to McWilliams by Wilkinson, as follows : " The enclosed was communicated by Colonel Wilkinson to Major McWilliams ; such wicked duplicity I shall always consider it my duty to detect." In consequence of this disclosure, and with no other... | |
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