 | Louis Clinton Hatch - 1904 - 250 pages
...convivial evening, he told Major McWilliams, an aide of Lord Stirling,2 that Conway had written to Gates, " Heaven has been determined to save your country, or a weak general and bad counsellors would have ruined it." McWilliams repeated to Lord Stirling what Wilkinson said, and Stirling... | |
 | Howard Malcolm Jenkins - 1903 - 654 pages
...effect. Pennsylvanians were clamorous for the retaking of Philadelphia. General Conway had written, "Heaven has been determined to save your country or a weak general and bad counsellors would have ruined it." The words reached Washington's 58 ears, but Comvay refused to apologize,... | |
 | 1905 - 712 pages
...understood) informed his aid-decamp, Major McWilliams that Gen. Conway had written this to you : 'Heaven has determined to save your country, or a weak general and bad counsellor would have ruined it.' Lord Stirling • from motives of friendship, transmitted the account - with this remark : 'The enclosed... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1905 - 644 pages
...over his head. The cabal fell to pieces when a letter from Conway was made public, in which he said, " Heaven has been determined to save your country, or a weak General and bad counsellors would have ruined it." Gates shortly after withdrew from command in the field. After all,... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1905 - 656 pages
...his head. 'The cabal fell to pieces when a letter from Conway was made public, in which he said, " Heaven has been determined to save your country, or a weak General and bad counsellors would have ruined it." Gates shortly after withdrew from command in the field. After all,... | |
 | John Roy Musick - 1908 - 516 pages
...Washington was strong, and the malice and hatred of some followed him to his grave. Conway wrote to Gates: " Heaven has been determined to save your country, or a weak general and bad counsellors would have ruined it." Colonel Joseph Reed wrote to Gates: " This army, notwithstanding... | |
 | Sydney George Fisher - 1908 - 636 pages
...turned in to assist the rise of Gates, but did him more harm than good. "Heaven," he wrote to Gates, "has been determined to save your country, or a weak General and bad counsellors would have ruined it." This phrase incautiously shown by Gates, became known to Washington's... | |
 | George Washington - 1908 - 500 pages
...informed his Aid de Camp Ma jr. McWilliams that General Conway had written thus to you: " Heaven had 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 acct.... | |
 | George Washington - 1909 - 526 pages
...night contained the following paragraph. — In a Letter from Genl. Conway to Genl. 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 this Letter, nor the information which occa154... | |
 | David Duncan Wallace - 1915 - 628 pages
...Stirling's sending to Washington early in November, 1777, the quotation from Conway's letter to Gates, "Heaven has been determined to save your country, or a weak General and bad counsellors would have ruined it."1 Laurens learned of this through a letter from his son, Colonel... | |
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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. 
