The Life of William Alexander, Earl of Stirling, Major-General in the Army of the United States During the Revolution: With Selections from His CorrespondenceNew Jersey Historical Society, 1847 - 272 páginas |
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Página 180 - SIR, — A letter which I received last night contained the following paragraph : ' In a letter from General Conway to General Gates, he says, Heaven has determined to save your country, or a weak General and bad counsellors would have ruined it.
Página 29 - Fix'd to one side, but moderate to the rest: An honest courtier, yet a patriot too, Just to his prince, and to his country true, Fill'd with the sense of age, the fire of youth, A scorn of wrangling, yet a zeal for truth; A generous faith, from superstition free; A love to peace, and hate of tyranny; Such this man was; who now, from earth remov'd, At length enjoys that liberty he lov'd.
Página 74 - ... soon in time matured by all the economical science of Europe, in which he was a proficient. Lord Shelburne seems to have been of a reserved and somewhat astute disposition: deep and adroit, he was however brave and firm. His knowledge was extensive and even profound. He was a great linguist; he pursued both literary and scientific investigations ; his house was frequented by men of letters, especially those distinguished by their political abilities or economical attainments. He maintained the...
Página 164 - The disastrous issue of this battle was ascribed by General Washington, in a great measure, to the surprise suffered by the two detachments posted on the roads leading through the wood between Brooklyn and Red Hook, — their retreat having enabled the enemy to lead a great part of their force against the detachment commanded by Lord Stirling, whose bravery and resolution he highly commends.f This danger had been foreseen by General Washington ; and in a letter to General Putnam, who had been sent...
Página 164 - Whitemarsh, October 25th, 1777:— I know it has been generally reported that I commanded on Long Island when the action happened there. This is by no means true. General Putnam had taken the command from me four days before the action.
Página 163 - In the mean time Captain Carpenter brought up two field-pieces, which were placed on the side of the hill so as to command the road, and the only approach, for some hundred yards. On the part of General Grant, there were two field-pieces : one howitzer advanced to within three hundred yards of the front of our right, and a like detachment of artillery to the front of our left. On a rising ground, about six hundred yards distant, one of their brigades formed in two lines opposite our right, and the...
Página 258 - Stirling, to express how deeply 1 share the common affliction, on being deprived of the public and professional assistance, as well as the private friendship, of an officer of so high rank, with whom I had lived in the strictest habits of amity, and how much those military merits of his Lordship, which rendered him respected in his lifetime, are now regretted by the whole army.
Página 259 - His education was such only as the state of the country afforded, but he received from his father instruction in his favourite studies of Mathematics and Astronomy, which rendered him no ordinary proficient in those sciences. He was bred, as we have seen, a merchant, and was successfully pursuing his business, when he was induced to join the army under General Shirley, — first as a Commissary, afterwards as Aid-de-Camp and Private Secretary to the Commander-in-Chief. In these stations he served...
Página 44 - DEAR SIR, — I had the pleasure of receiving your letter of the 18th on Thursday last, and yesterday I received from Mr.
Página 70 - The whole of this business has been transacted in so private a manner that not a tittle of it escaped until it was seen in the public papers ; so that there was no opportunity of counteracting, or, indeed, doing one single thing that might put a stop to this shameful affair. I make no doubt but the people of New Jersey will make some remonstrance upon this indignity put upon them.