 | Stephen Simpson - Presidents - 1833 - 408 pages
...was a passage in a letter written by Colonel Conway to General Gates, which ran thus: ' heaven has been determined to save your country, or a weak general and bad counsellors would have ruined it.' This passage of the letter was communicated by a member of Congress to Washington. Strong in the affections... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - 1834 - 456 pages
...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.' I am," &c. Neither this letter, nor the information which occasioned it, was ever directly or indirectly... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1834 - 600 pages
...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.' I am, Sir, &c." ' " Neither this letter, nor the information which occasioned it, was ever directly... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1834 - 594 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 a weak General and bad counsellors would have ruined it?" I am, Sir, your humble servant.* TO HENRY LAURENS, PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS-! Camp, at Whitemarsh, 10... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1834 - 590 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 a weak General and bad counsellors would have ruined it.' I am, Sir, &c." ' " Neither this letter, nor the information which occasioned it, was ever directly... | |
 | John Marshall - Presidents - 1836 - 534 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 a weak general and bad counsellors would have ruined it. I am, sir, &«." Neither the letter, nor the information which occasioned it, was ever, directly, or... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1834 - 588 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 a weak General and bad counsellors loould have ruined it.'" I am, Sir, your humble servant* TO HENRY LAURENS, PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS-!... | |
 | 1838 - 870 pages
...informed his aid-decamp, Major McWilliams, that General Conway had written this to you : ' Heaven has been determined to save your country, or a weak general...friendship, transmitted the account with this remark : 'Тле enclosed was communicated by Colonel Wilkinson to Major McWilliams; such wicked duplicity... | |
 | 1838 - 822 pages
...fact to Washington, that Conway had written to Gates a letter containing these words : " Heaven has been determined to save your country, or a weak general and bad counsellors would have ruined it." This was enough for Washington. He perfectly understood the characters of the men, and was at once... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - United States - 1839 - 592 pages
...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.' I am, Sir, &.C." ' " Neither this letter, nor the information which occasioned it, was ever directly... | |
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Sir, a letter which I received last night, contained the following paragraph : — " In a letter from General Conway to General Gates... 
