. Washington and the generals of the American revolution . who were inferior in pointof rank to you ; but remember that this is a consequenceof your own act, and consider what a stake we are con-tending for. Trifling punctilios should have no influenceupon a mans conduct in such a cause and at such a timeas this. If smaller matters do not yield to greater—if tri-fles, light as air in comparison with what we are contend-ing for, can withdraw or withhold gentlemen from service,when our all is at stake, and a single cast of the die mayturn the tables, what are we to expect ? He acceptedthe commis
. Washington and the generals of the American revolution . who were inferior in pointof rank to you ; but remember that this is a consequenceof your own act, and consider what a stake we are con-tending for. Trifling punctilios should have no influenceupon a mans conduct in such a cause and at such a timeas this. If smaller matters do not yield to greater—if tri-fles, light as air in comparison with what we are contend-ing for, can withdraw or withhold gentlemen from service,when our all is at stake, and a single cast of the die mayturn the tables, what are we to expect ? He acceptedthe commission, and assumed the command of the Vir-ginia regiment. In the battle of Brandywine he waswounded in the hand, so as to be compelled for a fewdays to leave the camp. He was in the battle of Mon-mouth, and in December, 1779, was ordered to the southHe was among the prisoners taken by the British aiCharleston on the 12th of May, 1780, and being taken mNew York in that summer, died there, on the 13th of November, in the thirty-sixth year of his age. .^-. ^[EW^®¥W® [KI»W0a.[LflA5^©washingtongenera03gris
Size: 1616px × 1545px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1880, booksubjectgenerals, bookyear188
