 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.  Life of Washington, v.3-4 - Page 279by Washington Irving - 1881Full view - About this book
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - United States - 1839 - 592 pages
...from General Heath. I have the honor to be, &,c. 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'"... | |
 | William Dunlap - Dutch - 1840 - 546 pages
...disclosure made of a paragraph in a letter from him to Gates, in which he says, " Hcarcu lins been determined to save your country, or a weak general and bad counsellors would have ruined it." France had secretly encouraged the discontent, and joyfully seen the rebellion of the subjects of her... | |
 | William Dunlap - Dutch - 1840 - 560 pages
...a disclosure made of a paragraph in a letter from him to Gates, in which he says, " Heaven has been determined to save your country, or a weak general and bad counsellors vxiuld have ruined it." France had secretly encouraged the discontent, and joyfully seen the rebellion... | |
 | John Frost - United States - 1844 - 260 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... | |
 | Robert Taylor Conrad - Declaration of Independence - 1846 - 900 pages
...twenty-fifth October, when General Conway's letter to General Gates, in which he said, "Heaven has been determined to save your country, or a weak general and bad counsellors would have destroyed it," was read, and the merits and demerits of General Washington in the battle of Brandywine... | |
 | John Frost - 1847 - 602 pages
...not unapprized of his intriguing disposition, I wrote to him a letter in these words : — " ' 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."... | |
 | George Washington - United States - 1847 - 630 pages
...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...have ruined it.'" I am, Sir, your humble servant.* TO HENRY LAURENS, PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS.f Camp, at Whitemarsh, 10 November, 1777. SIR, I have been... | |
 | George Washington - United States - 1847 - 606 pages
...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...counsellors would have ruined it.'" I am, Sir, your humble seVvant.* TO HENRY LAURENS, PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS.f Camp, at Whitemarsh, 10 November, 1777. SIR, I... | |
 | George Washington - United States - 1847 - 616 pages
...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...bad counsellors would have ruined it.' I am, Sir, &c." ' " Neither this letter, nor the information which occasioned it, was ever directly or indirectly... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1847 - 560 pages
...Major McWilliams, an aid of Stirling, the following passage from a letter of Conway to Gates : — " Heaven has determined to save your country, or a weak...general and bad counsellors would have ruined it." Major Me Williams considered it his duty to disclose this communication to Stirling, who in turn felt... | |
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