ALS, 1782 March 14 : Dumfries, to General Horatio Gates.

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ALS, 1782 March 14 : Dumfries, to General Horatio Gates.

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Lee congratulates Gates on "the honour you have so justly acquired," wishing "may you be personally happy, for I despair ... of your being politically so." Lee bitterly denounces "the present tyrannical anarchy," saying he would "rather marry the Devil's Daughter ... than remain a single instant in this accursed Pandemonium."

4 p. ; 19.5 x 31 cm.

Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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Gates, Horatio, 1728-1806

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American revolutionary general. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Traveller's Rest, to F. Meriwether, Esq., 1787 Jan. 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270864014 Revolutionary general. Born in England, Gates settled in Virginia in 1772 after a career in the British army that included service in the French and Indian War. He was commissioned adjutant-general of the Continental Army in 1775, and was in command at the pivotal victory of Saratoga. After Saratoga...

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...