 | George Bancroft - 1884 - 626 pages
...difficulties are thrown in my way." 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... | |
 | James Harrison Kennedy - 1888 - 802 pages
...understood, informed his aide de camp, Major McWilliams, that General Conway had written this 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... | |
 | Bayard Tuckerman - 1889 - 304 pages
...Conway had written a letter to Gates containing the following phrase, or words to the same effect : " Heaven has been determined to save your country, or a weak general and bad counsellors would have ruined it." Colonel Wilkinson, one of Gates' aides, became acquainted with the... | |
 | 1890 - 558 pages
...Stirling], 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." ' — Washington to General Conway. This brief note is the earliest... | |
 | 1890 - 566 pages
...Stirling], 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." ' — Washington to General Conway. This brief note is the earliest... | |
 | George Washington - 1890 - 544 pages
...Sir." — Washington to the President of Congress, 4 January, 1778. 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.... | |
 | William Spohn Baker - 1892 - 356 pages
...Stirling], 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." ' " — Washington to General Conway. This brief note is the earliest... | |
 | William Spohn Baker - 1892 - 444 pages
...Stirling], 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"'" — Washington to General Conway. This brief note is the earliest... | |
 | 1894 - 844 pages
...understood, informed his aide de camp, Major McWilliams, that General Conway had written this 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... | |
 | Morton Luther Montgomery - 1894 - 310 pages
...understood — informed his aid-de-camp, Major Me Williams, that General Conway had written this 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... | |
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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. 
