 | Frances Mary Owen - 1873 - 280 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, your humble servant, "GEORGE WASHINGTON." This letter produced a general explosion. The result was... | |
 | GEORGE BANCROFT. - 1875 - 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... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1876 - 676 pages
...Irish descent, eager for higher rank; Washington's opinion of him; writes to Gates, that " Heaven is determined to save your country, or a weak general and bad counsellors would have ruined it;" his injurious words about Washington communicated to him by Washington himself; he justifies them,... | |
 | Washington Irving - Children's literature - 1876 - 766 pages
...informed him, not in confidence, that General Couway had written to Gates as follows : " Heaven has been determined to save your country, or a weak general and bad counsellors would have ruined it." Washington then adds that this circumstance had not been communicated to any officer in the army except... | |
 | Worcester Historical Society, Worcester, Mass - Massachusetts - 1912 - 356 pages
...exploded, rupturing the opposition to Washington. Conway wrote the following to Gates: "Heaven has been determined to save your country, or a weak General and bad counsellors would have ruined it." Washington enclosed those words to Conway, informing him he understood they formed a portion of a letter... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1877 - 660 pages
...success in his undertaking. Conway himself wrote to Gates, saying in substance : " Heaven has been determined to save your country, or a weak general and bad counsellors would have ruined it." Colonel Joseph Reed wrote to him: "This army, notwithstanding the efforts of our amiable chief, has,... | |
 | George Washington Greene - 1878 - 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...bad counsellors would have ruined it.'" " I am Sir, your humble servant. " GEORGE WASHINGTON." * That Gates had long been estranged from him he already... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1878 - 676 pages
...Irish descent, eager for higher rank; Washington's opinion of him; writes to Gates, that " Heaven is determined to save your country, or a weak general and bad counsellors would have ruined It;" his injurious words about Washington communicated to him by Washington himself; he justifies them,... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - United States - 1879 - 634 pages
...fortunes. He wrote him, mingling censures of Washington with adulations to himself: " Heaven has been determined to save your country, or a weak general and bad counsellors would have ruined it." This marked passage had been seen by Wilkinson, adjutant-general of Gates, and by him, while on his... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1881 - 1010 pages
...Dnar, p. 182. following brief note, dated November 9th, that his correspondence was detected. " SIE — A letter which I received last night contained the...counsellors would have ruined it." ' " I am, sir, your humble servant, " GEOROE WASHINGTON." The brevity of this note rendered it the more astounding.... | |
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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. 
