| Local history - 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 - Generals - 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 Ho other... | |
| Aaron Bancroft - 1848 - 472 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 the letter, nor the information which occasioned it, was ever directly,... | |
| John Frost - United States - 1848 - 424 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... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Generals - 1848 - 394 pages
...Williams, an aid of Lord Stirling's, the well-known passage in the letter of Conway to Gates : " Heaven has determined to save your country, or a weak general and bad counsellors would have ruined it." McWilliams considered it his duty to communicate the affair to Lord Stirling, who in his turn felt... | |
| Benson John Lossing - United States - 1852 - 948 pages
...and respected his character, and loved him as a man." 1 One of Conway's expressions was, " Heaven has been determined to save your country, or a weak general and bad counselors would have ruined it." 2 Gates, in a letter to Washington, charged Wilkinson with deceit... | |
| 1854 - 616 pages
...As if in casual conversation, he remarked that Conway had written to Gates, saying — " Heaven has been determined to save your country, or a weak general and bad counsellors would have ruined it." This brought on a correspondence between different parties, and developed, at once, the feelings of... | |
| Aaron Bancroft - 1855 - 464 pages
...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 a weak General and bad Counsellors would have ruined it." Lord Sterling, from motives of friendship, transmitted the account with this remark. ' The enclosed was... | |
| Washington Irving - 1857 - 1194 pages
...this to you : ' Heaven has been determined to save your country, or a weak general and bad counselors would have ruined it' Lord Stirling, from motives...friendship, transmitted the account, with this remark, 'The inclosed was communicated by Colonel Wilkinson to Major McWilliams. Such wicked duplicity of conduct... | |
| George Washington - United States - 1855 - 588 pages
...contained the following paragraph, " In a letter from General Conway to General Gates he says, 6 Heaven has been determined to save your country,, or a weak General and bad counsellors would have ruined iL35, I am. Sir, your humble servant.* TO HENRY LAURENS, PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS.f Camp, at Whitemarsh,... | |
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