 | John Church Hamilton - United States - 1864 - 612 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... | |
 | Christopher James Riethmüller - 1864 - 504 pages
...appears to have taken a prominent part in these plots. It was he who wrote to Gates : — " Heaven has determined to save your country, or a weak general and bad counsellors would have ruined it!" — which passage, coming to the knowledge of Washington, was by him sent back to Conway without further... | |
 | Christopher James Riethmüller - 1864 - 480 pages
...appears to have taken a prominent part in these plots. It was he who wrote to Gates:—" Heaven has determined to save your country, or a weak general and bad counsellors would have ruined it!"—which passage, coming to the knowledge of Washington, was by him sent back to Conway without... | |
 | GEORGE BANCROFT - 1866 - 518 pages
...Conway's promotion. Conway breathed out his discontent to Gates, writing in substance: " Heaven has been determined to save your country, or a weak general and bad counsellors would have ruined it." The correspondents of Gates did not scruple in their letters to speak of the commander-in-chief with... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1866 - 520 pages
...Conway's promotion. • Conway breathed out his discontent to Gates, writing in substance : " Heaven has been determined to save your country, or a weak general and bad counsellors would have ruined it." The correspondents of Gates did not scruple in their letters to speak of the commander-in-chief with... | |
 | John Laurens - United States - 1867 - 280 pages
...piece of paper with the following words : "In a letter to Gen1 Gates, Gen1 Conway says, ' Heaven has been determined to save your country, or a weak general and bad counsellors would have ruined it.' The gen1 immediately copied the contents of the paper, introducing them with sir, and concluding with,... | |
 | Thomas Coffin Amory - United States - 1868 - 342 pages
...be remembered to have read in it the following paragraph : — " Heaven has determined to save this country, or a weak general and bad counsellors would have ruined it." General Wilkinson assured me that such a paragraph, was not in my letter. 3d JANUARY, 1778. . THOMAS... | |
 | Thomas Coffin Amory - United States - 1868 - 326 pages
...he remembered to have read in it the following paragraph : — " Heaven has determined to save this country, or a weak general and bad counsellors would have ruined it." General Wilkinson assured me that such a paragraph was not in my letter. 3d JANUARY, 1778. THOMAS CONWAY,... | |
 | Henry Lee, Robert Edward Lee - Southern States - 1869 - 668 pages
...informed his aid-de-camp, Major Me Williams, that General Conway had written thus to you : "Heaven has been determined to save your country ; or a weak general...friendship, transmitted the account, with this remark: "The inclosed was communicated by * * * * to Major McWilliams; such wicked duplicity of conduct I shall... | |
 | Henry Lee - Southern States - 1869 - 658 pages
...informed his aid-de-camp, Major Me Williams, that General Conway had written thus to you : " Heaven has been determined to save your country ; or a weak general and bad counsellors wonld have ruined it." Lord Stirling, from motives of friendship, transmitted the account, with this... | |
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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... 
