 | William Alexander Duer - 1847 - 312 pages
...as follows : " SIR, — A letter which I received last night, contains the following paragraph : ' Heaven has determined to save your country, or a weak General and bad councillors would have ruined it.' " A correspondence now ensued between Generals Washington, Gates... | |
 | 1847 - 312 pages
...as follows : " SIR, — A letter which I received last night, contains the following paragraph : ' Heaven has determined to save your country, or a weak General and bad councillors would have ruined it.' " A correspondence now ensued between Generals Washington, Gates... | |
 | William Alexander Duer - 1847 - 316 pages
...as follows : " SIR, — A letter which I received last night, contains the following paragraph : ' Heaven has determined to save your country, or a weak General and bad councillors would have ruined it.' " A correspondence now ensued between Generals Washington, Gates... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1848 - 472 pages
...gentleman that I was not unapprized of his intriguing disposition,! wrote him a letter in these words. " Sir, a letter which I received last night, contained...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 ;... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1848 - 394 pages
...Me 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... | |
 | John Frost - 1848 - 424 pages
...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... | |
 | George Washington - 1852 - 464 pages
...accordingly addressed the following letter to "Brigadier-General Conway." " 9 November, 1777. "SIR,—A letter, which I received last night, contained the...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."... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1853 - 466 pages
...gentleman that I was not unapprized of his intriguing disposition,! wrote him a letter in these words. " Sir, a letter which I received last night, contained...the following paragraph. " In a letter from General Coni^ay to General Gates, he says, ' heaven has been determined to save your country ; or a weak General... | |
 | George Washington - 1855 - 588 pages
...from General Heath. I have the honor to be, &c. TO BRIGADIER-GENERAL CONWAY, 9 November, '1777. SjR, A letter, which I received last night, contained the...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... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1857 - 1194 pages
...know, by the following brief note, dated November 9th, that his correspondence was detected. " SIB, — A letter which I received last night contained the...following paragraph, — 'In a letter from General •Gates' Papers, NY Hist. Lib. t Life of Lord Stirling, by WA Duer, p. 182. TOL. in.— 23 Conway... | |
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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 he says, ' Heaven has been determined to save your country, or a weak General and bad counsellors would have ruined it. 
