 | Aaron Bancroft - 1808 - 584 pages
...with Lord Sterling at Reading; and, not in confidence that lever understood, informed his aid-de-camp, Major M'Williams, ,that General Conway had written...general and bad counsellors would have ruined it.' Lord Sterling, from motives of friendship, transmitted the account with this remark. * The enclosed was... | |
 | John Sanderson - United States - 1827 - 388 pages
...pronounced by Washington to have been " a dangerous incendiary," in which the French officer observed, " heaven has been determined to save your country, or...general, and bad counsellors, would have ruined it." At the same time, the legislature of Pennsylvania, chagrined at losing its capital, remonstrated against... | |
 | John Sanderson - United States - 1824 - 364 pages
...pronounced by Washington to have been " a dangerous incendiary," in which the French officer observed, "heaven has been determined to save your country,...general, and bad counsellors, would have ruined it." At the same time, the legislature of Pennsylvania, chagrined at losing its capital, remonstrated against... | |
 | Amos Blanchard (of Cincinnati.), Amos Blanchard - United States - 1825 - 464 pages
...General Gates on the subject, and in one of bis letters, he thus expresses himselft— " Heaven has becn 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 go basely inveighs. Envy and malice... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - Presidents - 1826 - 506 pages
...Lord Sterling at Reading ; and, not in confidence that I ever understood, informed his Aid de camp, Major M'Williams, that General Conway had written...General and bad Counsellors would have ruined it.' Lord Sterling, from motives of friendship, transmitted the account with this remark. ' The enclosed was... | |
 | James Thacher - American War of Independence, 1775-1783 - 1827 - 502 pages
...correspondence with General Gates on the subject, and in one of his letters, he thus expresses himself. " Heaven has been determined to save your country, or...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 This gentleman... | |
 | John Sanderson, Robert Waln - United States - 1828 - 438 pages
...pronounced by Washington to nave been " a dangerous incendiary," in which the French officer observed, " heaven has been determined to save your country, or...general, and bad counsellors, would have ruined it." At the same time, the legislature of Pennsylvania, chagrined at losing its capital, remonstrated against... | |
 | George Washington - United States - 1834 - 596 pages
...ever understood, informed his aid-de-camp, Major M c Williams, that General Conway had written this to you ; ' Heaven has been determined to save your...with this remark; ' The enclosed was communicated by Colonel Wilkinson to Major M°Williams ; such wicked duplicity of conduct I shall always think it my... | |
 | George Washington - United States - 1847 - 630 pages
...ever understood, informed his aid-de-camp, Major JVI c Williams, that General Conway had written this to you ; ' Heaven has been determined to save your...motives of friendship, transmitted the account with thia remark; ' The enclosed was communicated by Colonel Wilkinson to Major M e WilIiams ; such wicked... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1847 - 552 pages
...Williams, 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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major M'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... 
