ALS, 1779 March 15 : Philadelphia, to unknown.

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ALS, 1779 March 15 : Philadelphia, to unknown.

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Lee lambasts someone who had called Lee legally disgraced, saying "I find that you are as malignant a Scoundrel as you are universally allow'd to be a ridiculous and disgusting Coxcomb ... I do not believe you quite blockhead enough to think the charges had a shadow of support."

2 1/2 p. ; 19.5 x 32 cm.

Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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Lee, Charles, 1731-1782

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Lee was a veteran British Army officer who settled in America in 1773 and was appointed a major general in the Continental Army at the outbreak of the Revolution. In 1778, he was appointed to lead the attack at the Battle of Monmouth, but instead retreated without warning, apparently ignored orders from George Washington, and afterward demanded an apology from him. Lee was suspended and later dismissed from the Army. From the description of ALS, 1776 Jan. 30, Stamford, Ct...