 | Aaron Bancroft - 1807 - 576 pages
...understood, informed his Aid de camp, 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 Sterling, from motives of friendship, transmitted the account... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1808 - 604 pages
...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; I am, sir, &c.' " Neither the letter, nor the information'which occasioned... | |
 | John Sanderson - 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 a weak general, and bad counsellors, would have ruined it." At the same time, the legislature of Pennsylvania, chagrined at... | |
 | James Thacher - 1823 - 686 pages
...an unprincipled intriguer, and after his resignation, his calumny and detraction of the Commander in Chief, and the army generally, was exercised with...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... | |
 | John Sanderson - 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, or a weak general, and bad counsellors, would have ruined it." At the same time, the legislature of Pennsylvania, chagrined at... | |
 | 1825 - 472 pages
...the operations of the army, received countenance from several members of Congress, who were mduced to declare their want of confidence in him, and the...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... | |
 | 1825 - 464 pages
...the following notices of the Marquis, in his account of this proposed expedition. ~ " . ! j fidence in him, and the affair assumed an aspect threatening...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... | |
 | 1825 - 462 pages
...an aspect threatening the most disastrous consequences. Comvay maintained a correspondence with Gen. Gates on the subject, and in • one of his letters,...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... | |
 | Amos Blanchard (of Cincinnati.), Amos Blanchard - 1825 - 464 pages
...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 ever are attendant on exalted genius and merit. But the delusion... | |
 | James Thacher - 1827 - 502 pages
...the office till his death, in 1795. MAJOR GRWEILIL THOMAS COWWAY. KMl. in oF TBE oRDER oF SY. LoUIS. No man was more zealously engaged in the scheme of...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... | |
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heaven has been determined to save your country ; or a weak General and bad Counsellors would have ruined it ; I am, sir, &.c. 
