The Writings of George Washington, Volum 9G.P. Putnam' Sons, 1891 |
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... letter to Congress . I every moment expect further intelligence from below ... the honor to enclose the Copy of a let- ter which I have written to the four ... have been pleased in so many instances to repose in me were I to hesitate in ...
... letter to Congress . I every moment expect further intelligence from below ... the honor to enclose the Copy of a let- ter which I have written to the four ... have been pleased in so many instances to repose in me were I to hesitate in ...
Side 129
... have a number of printed copies made of the furloughs and passes . I have the honor to be , & c . P. S. I have just received the agreeable account contained in a letter from the Count de Rochambeau of which the enclosed is a copy ...
... have a number of printed copies made of the furloughs and passes . I have the honor to be , & c . P. S. I have just received the agreeable account contained in a letter from the Count de Rochambeau of which the enclosed is a copy ...
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... have just mentioned , operates in favor of keeping the remainder as long as ... letter , ' I had directed the commissary of prisoners to renew a proposal ... the honor of transmitting to your Excellency the enclosed resolve of the 3d ...
... have just mentioned , operates in favor of keeping the remainder as long as ... letter , ' I had directed the commissary of prisoners to renew a proposal ... the honor of transmitting to your Excellency the enclosed resolve of the 3d ...
Side 239
... copy . This letter , which was written in the moment of my obtaining the ... honor , has misled his judgment and plunged him into error , ( upon the appearance of de- sertion of ... letter can have reached you , 1781 ] 239 GEORGE WASHINGTON .
... copy . This letter , which was written in the moment of my obtaining the ... honor , has misled his judgment and plunged him into error , ( upon the appearance of de- sertion of ... letter can have reached you , 1781 ] 239 GEORGE WASHINGTON .
Side 254
... have in view , after a union of the French army with his own ? 5th . WASHINGTON .- " The Enemy , by several detachments from New York , having ... letter , which I have the honor to enclose from the Count de Rochambeau , will , I imagine , ...
... have in view , after a union of the French army with his own ? 5th . WASHINGTON .- " The Enemy , by several detachments from New York , having ... letter , which I have the honor to enclose from the Count de Rochambeau , will , I imagine , ...
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Side 212 - January last are verified every moment; and, if France delays a timely and powerful aid in the critical posture of our affairs, it will avail us nothing, should she attempt it hereafter. We are at this hour suspended in the balance ; not from choice, but from hard and absolute necessity ; and you may rely on it as a fact, that we cannot transport the provisions from the States in which they are assessed to the army, because we cannot pay the teamsters, who will no longer work for certificates.
Side 212 - ... be assured, my dear Laurens, day does not follow night more certainly, than it brings with it some additional proof of the impracticability of carrying on the war, without the aids you were directed to solicit. As an honest and candid man, as a man whose all depends on the final and happy termination of the present contest, I assert this, while I give it decisively as my opinion, that, without a foreign loan, our present force, which is but the remnant of an army, cannot be kept together this...
Side 192 - We ought not to look back, unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear bought experience.
Side 382 - ... measures to be ready for an early and decisive campaign the next year. My greatest fear is, that Congress, viewing this stroke in too important a point of light, may think our work too nearly closed, and will fall into a state of languor and relaxation. To prevent this error, I shall employ every means in my power, and if, unhappily, we sink into that fatal mistake, no part of the blame shall be mine.
Side 277 - Were it possible for this circumstance to justify in your Excellency a determination to lend us your personal aid, it is evident from the universal voice, that the presence of their beloved countryman, whose talents have so long been successfully employed in establishing the freedom of kindred states, to whose person, they have still flattered themselves they retained some right, and have ever looked up, as their dernier resort in distress, would restore full confidence of salvation to our citizens,...
Side 348 - Of many contingencies," writes he, "we will hope for the most propitious events. Should the retreat of Lord Cornwallis by water be cut off by the arrival of either of the French fleets, I am persuaded you will do all in your power to prevent his escape by land. May that great felicity be reserved for you.
Side 237 - States to provide these things for their troops respectively ; instead of having a regular system of transportation established upon credit, or funds in the quartermaster's hands to defray the contingent expenses of it, we have neither the one nor the other, and all that business, or a great part of it, being done by military impress...
Side 245 - Philadelphia, and served in the flying camp in 1776. In August of the same year he joined my family, and has been in every action in which the main army was concerned. He has been a zealous servant and slave to the public, and a faithful assistant to me for near five years, great part of which time he refused to receive pay. Honor and gratitude interest me in his favor, and make me solicitous to obtain his commission.
Side 237 - I can see of ever getting more than half; in a word, instead of having everything in readiness to take the field, we have nothing ; and, instead of having the prospect of a glorious offensive campaign before us, we have a bewildered and gloomy defensive one, unless we should receive a powerful aid of ships, land troops, and money from our generous allies...
Side 105 - That the patience of the army, from an almost uninterrupted series of complicated distress, is now nearly exhausted, and their discontents matured to an extremity, which has recently had very disagreeable consequences, and which demonstrates the absolute necessity of speedy relief, a relief not within the compass of our means.