 | George Bancroft - United States - 1866 - 524 pages
...Conway's promotion. Conway breathed out his discontent to Gates, writing in substance : " Heaven has been determined to save your country, or a weak general and bad counsellors would have ruined it." The correspondents of Gates did not scruple in their letters to speak of the commander-in-chief with... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1866 - 520 pages
...promotion. • Conway breathed out his discontent to Gates, writing in substance : " Heaven has been determined to save your country, or a weak general and bad counsellors would have ruined it." The correspondents of Gates did not scruple in their letters to speak of the commander-in-chief with... | |
 | GEORGE BANCROFT - 1866 - 518 pages
...Conway's promotion. Conway breathed out his discontent to Gates, writing in substance: " Heaven has been determined to save your country, or a weak general and bad counsellors would have ruined it." The correspondents of Gates did not scruple in their letters to speak of the commander-in-chief with... | |
 | John Laurens - United States - 1867 - 280 pages
...of paper with the following words : "In a letter to Gen1 Gates, Gen1 Conway says, ' Heaven has been determined to save your country, or a weak general and bad counsellors would have ruined it.' The gen1 immediately copied the contents of the paper, introducing them with sir, and concluding with,... | |
 | Thomas Coffin Amory - United States - 1868 - 342 pages
...be remembered to have read in it the following paragraph : — " 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. 3d JANUARY, 1778. . THOMAS... | |
 | Thomas Coffin Amory - United States - 1868 - 326 pages
...he remembered to have read in it the following paragraph : — " 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. 3d JANUARY, 1778. THOMAS CONWAY,... | |
 | Henry Lee, Robert Edward Lee - Southern States - 1869 - 668 pages
...his aid-de-camp, Major Me Williams, that General Conway had written thus to you : "Heaven has been determined to save your country ; or a weak general and bad counsellors would have ruined it." Lord Stirling, from motives of friendship, transmitted the account, with this remark: "The inclosed... | |
 | Henry Lee - Southern States - 1869 - 658 pages
...his aid-de-camp, Major Me Williams, that General Conway had written thus to you : " Heaven has been determined to save your country ; or a weak general and bad counsellors wonld have ruined it." Lord Stirling, from motives of friendship, transmitted the account, with this... | |
 | George Washington Greene - History - 1871 - 538 pages
...immediately followed it, brought a letter in the same strain from Conway. " Heaven," he wrote, " has been determined to save your country, or a weak General and bad counsellors would have ruined it." Gates smiled complacently as he drank in the grateful adulation, and repaying the flatterer in kind,... | |
 | George Washington Greene - Generals - 1871 - 538 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 and bad counsellors would have ruined a:" " I am Sir, your humble servant. " GEORGE WASHINGTON." 1 That Gates had long been estranged from... | |
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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 determined to save your country ; or a weak general and bad counsellors would have ruined it. 
