 | Henry Lee - Southern States - 1812 - 444 pages
...commonwealth appointed a committee of their body to wait on the vanquished general, and " to assure him of their high regard and esteem: that their remembrance...from splendid elevation to obscurity, with apparent fortitude and complacency. He was sensibly affected, and comforted by this kind reception, and retired... | |
 | John Burk - Virginia - 1816 - 574 pages
...of his former glorious " services could not be obliterated by any reverse of tor*• tune ; but that ever mindful of his great merit, they " would omit...testifying to the world the *• gratitude which, as a member of the Union, Virginia " owed him in his military character." This homage of the father?... | |
 | John Frost - United States - 1845 - 480 pages
...remembrance of his former glorious services could not be obliterated by any reverse of fortune ; but that ever mindful of his great merit, they would omit no...opportunity of testifying to the world the gratitude which the country owed to him in his military character." These events, together with a few unimportant skirmishes... | |
 | John Frost - United States - 1845 - 474 pages
...remembrance of his former glorious services could not be obliterated by any reverse of fortune ; but that ever mindful of his great merit, they would omit no...opportunity of testifying to the world the gratitude which the country owed to him in his military character." These events, together with a few unimportant skirmishes... | |
 | John Frost - 1847 - 602 pages
...remembrance of former glorious services could not be obliterated by any reverse of fortune, and that they would omit no opportunity of testifying to the world the gratitude which the country owed to him in his military character." Thus closed the southern campaign of 1780. Though... | |
 | Charles Jacobs Peterson - Military biography - 1848 - 586 pages
...and a committee was appointed to assure the desponding General of " their high regard and esteem, and that their remembrance of his former glorious services...never to be obliterated by any reverse of fortune." Washington also, though so much injured by Gates, extended his sympathy to the unhappy fugitive, and... | |
 | John Frost - United States - 1853 - 822 pages
...remembrance of his former glonous services could not be obliterated by any reverse of fortune; but that ever mindful of his great merit, they would omit no...opportunity of testifying to the world the gratitude which the country owed to him in his military character." These events, together with a few unimportant skirmishes... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1857 - 1194 pages
...in his memoirs, " appointed a committee of their body to wait on the vanquished general, and assure him of their high regard and esteem, that their remembrance...American Union, owed to him in his military character." Gates was sensibly affected and comforted by this kind reception, and retired with a lightened heart... | |
 | Washington Irving - Presidents - 1857 - 588 pages
...in his memoirs, " appointed a committee of their body to wait on the vanquished general, and assure him of their high regard and esteem, that their remembrance...American Union, owed to him in his military character." Gates was sensibly affected and comforted by this kind reception, and retired with a lightened heart... | |
 | Washington Irving - Presidents - 1857 - 568 pages
...in his Memoirs, " appointed a committee of their body to wait on the vanquished general and assure him of their high regard and esteem, that their remembrance...American Union, owed to him in his military character." Gates was sensibly affected and comforted by this kind reception, and retired with a lightened heart... | |
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Those fathers of the commonwealth," writes Colonel H. Lee, in his memoirs, " appointed a committee of their body to wait on the vanquished general, and assure him of their high regard and esteem, that their remembrance of his former glorious services... 
