...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...

...ruined it.' Lord Stirling, from motives of friendship, transmitted the account with this remark : ' Tho enclosed was communicated by Colonel Wilkinson to...conduct I shall always think it my duty to detect.' " Washington adds, that the letter written by him to Conway was merely to show that gentleman that...

...contained the following paragraph : ' In a letter from General Conway to General Gates, he says, Heaven has determined to save your country, or a weak General and bad counsellors would have ruined it.' I am, sir, your humble servant, George Washington." Conway knew not what sort of answer to make to...

...victory, Conway wrote the general a laudatory letter, asked to serve under him, and added, "Heaven has been determined to save your country, or a weak General and bad counsellors would have ruined it." Gates's aide saw the letter and quoted the passage to a fellow officer; it was repeated to General...

...remark that Brig. Gen. Thomas Con way had made in a letter to Gates, to the effect that "Heaven has been determined to save your country, or a weak general and bad counsellors would have ruined it."51 Wilkinson's appointment could scarcely have been pleasing to Washington, and a cool reception...

...praised Gates at Washington's expense. Quoting from memory, Wilkinson repeated its gist— "Heaven has determined to save your country, or a weak general and bad counsellors would have ruined it." The officer in whom Wilkinson confided hurried back to his own chief, Lord Stirling. Washington and...

...the following remarks which Conway had allegedly made in a letter to Gates in October: "Heaven has been determined to save your Country, or a Weak General and bad Counselors would have ruined it_" What Conway had actually written, according to an extract of the...

...Thomas Conway, an Irish-born French career officer who had volunteered in the American army: "Heaven has been determined to save your Country; or a weak General and bad Counsellors would have ruined it." Conway before this had been making free with invidious comments about Washington. No man, he had been...

...prospect, it was natural to suggest that Gates was more competent. Gen. Conway had written, " Heaven has been determined to save your country or a weak general and bad counsellors would have ruined it." The words reached Washington's ears, but Conway refused to apologize, and told Mifflin of his interview...

...remembered to have read iu it the following para, graph : — M 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. off the fleet of the allies,...