 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1860 - 788 pages
...1st of December that the wishes of La Fayette were gratified. On that day Congress resolved, " That General Washington be informed it is highly agreeable to Congress that the Marquis De La Fayette bo appointed to the command of a division in the Continental army."1 Three days afterward it was proclaimed,... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1860 - 794 pages
...1st of December that the wishes of La Fayette were gratified. On that day Congress resolved, " That General Washington be informed it is highly agreeable to Congress that the Marquis De La Fayette bo appointed to the command of a division in the Continental army."1 Three days afterward it was proclaimed,... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1875 - 884 pages
...that Gen. Washington be informed that it is highly agreeable to congress that the marquis de Lafayette be appointed to the command of a division in the continental army." This resolve was passed at the request of Washington himself, who three days afterward directed Lafayette... | |
 | Lydia Hoyt Farmer - 1888 - 622 pages
...marquis ; and on the 1st of December, 1777, the following resolution was passed : — " Resolved, That General Washington be informed it is highly agreeable...the command of a division in the continental army." Three days after, La Fayette was publicly invested with his rank, and placed over the division of Virginia... | |
 | Charlemagne Tower - Biography & Autobiography - 1894 - 544 pages
...that it voted, upon the same day that the General's letter was received, as follows: "Resolved. That General Washington be informed, it is highly agreeable...appointed to the command of a division in the Continental Army."2 Three days later, a general order was issued announcing that the Marquis de La Fayette was... | |
 | Local history - 1910 - 274 pages
...The resolution in the Journals of Congress, volume in, page 429, reads as follows : RESOLVED : That General Washington be informed it is highly agreeable to Congress that the Marquis La Fayette be appointed to the command of a division in the Continent;*! army. ****** Washington, some... | |
 | Charles Hanson Towne - France - 1917 - 446 pages
...arrival in America that he be apppointed to the command of a Division; and Congress resolved: "That General Washington be informed, it is highly agreeable to Congress that the Marquis de Lafayette be appointed to the command of a Division in the Continental Army." He was accordingly put... | |
 | American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society - Buildings - 1917 - 980 pages
...arrival in America, that he be appointed to the command of a Division and Congress resolved that, ' General Washington be informed it is highly agreeable to Congress that the Marquis de Lafayette be appointed to the command of a Division in the Continental Army.' He was accordingly put... | |
 | Rupert Sargent Holland - 1918 - 368 pages
...nobility of his country." And Congress agreed with Washington, and voted that " the Marquis de Lafayette be appointed to the command of a division in the Continental Army." On December 4, 1777, the Frenchman was given the command of the Virginia division. He was twenty years... | |
 | George Morgan - 1919 - 548 pages
...now again he wrote — and, with effect; for Congress replied with this resolution : " Resolved, That General Washington be informed it is highly agreeable...the command of a division in the Continental army." Upon receipt of this welcome authorization, the Commander-in-Chief appointed La Fayette as the successor... | |
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That General Washington be informed it is highly agreeable to Congress that the Marquis De La Fayette be appointed to the command of a division in the Continental army... 
